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Volcanos
A free, ready-to-attach connector serving the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program catalog — volcanoes, eruptions, and types — as clean SQL tables.
Overview
What Volcanos does
The Volcanos connector wraps the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program data into an attachable SQL catalog. Query volcanoes by region, type, and last-known eruption without scraping or downloading anything yourself.
It is the reference worker behind several Query.Farm VGI examples and is free to attach. Use it to learn the Orchard workflow or to practice geospatial joins against other public datasets.
Highlights
- Smithsonian volcano catalog as tables
- Eruption history and volcano types
- Latitude / longitude ready for geospatial joins
- No token required — free to attach
- Backs the Query.Farm VGI demos
Attach & query
-- Attach the free Volcanos connector (no token required)
ATTACH 'volcanos' AS volcanos (
TYPE vgi,
LOCATION 'https://vgi-volcanos.fly.dev/'
);
-- The ten most recently active volcanoes by country
SELECT name, country, primary_type, last_eruption_year
FROM volcanos.smithsonian.volcanoes
WHERE last_eruption_year IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY last_eruption_year DESC
LIMIT 10;
Requires the VGI extension. Set ORCHARD_TOKEN after subscribing.
What you get
Tables & functions it exposes
Once attached, the connector adds these objects to your SQL session.
smithsonian.volcanoes One row per volcano with region and type.
smithsonian.eruptions Recorded eruptions with dates and VEI.
smithsonian.pleistocene_volcanoes Pleistocene-era volcanoes subset.
Use cases
What teams build with Volcanos
Learn the Orchard attach-and-query workflow for free.
Join volcano locations against weather or air-quality data.
Teach geospatial SQL with a real, tidy dataset.
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