Turrialba has its first eruption in over 100 years and tourists get an upclose view of Poas erupting last week.
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Two volcanoes are getting quiet (Redoubt and Mayon) while two pick up the slack (Turrialba and Nyamuragira).
The evacuation zone around Costa Rica’s Turrialba is extended, Mayon may be quieter, but the economic damage might have been done and we try to play catch up with the latest USGS/GVP Volcano Report.
Did volcanoes that erupt kill all the Permian dinosaurs? FOX News thinks they did! And in real news, the Turrialba eruption may not lead much. UPDATE: and now we have a field report of the Turrialba event.
Nyamuragira marks the new year with a new eruption, the first since 2006.
Galeras in Colombia starts 2010 off with what appears to be a significant explosive eruption. UPDATE: New video of the eruption, too!
Lots of eruptions to start the new year and I have updates on Mayon, Galeras, Nyamuragira, Redoubt and Volcano Awareness Month!
All the volcano eruptions, news, gossips, controversies of 2009 … it was quite a year for the study of volcanoes!
What volcano was named the 2009 Pliny winner for Volcanic Event of the Year? Find out now!
Many flights out of Puerto Rico were cancelled today due to ash from Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat.
Time for nominations for the “Volcanic Event of the Year” (tentatively called a Pliny)! Send me your nominations for the most captivating and important volcanic event in 2009.
Despite a brief “lull”, the danger posed by Mayon in the Philippines is still very real – which isn’t stopping residents and even tourists from braving the evacuation zones.
I’ve gotten a lot of emails over the last few weeks and have done a terrible job at replying. No fear – I will get to them, most likely this […]
Don’t look now, but Redoubt might be trying to make a late year comeback, as AVO raised the alert status back to Yellow for the first time in months.
The rumbling continue at Mayon and Redoubt as 2009 winds down.
Explosions and lava extrusion continue at Mayon in the Philippines – and it might only be the beginning of the eruption.
The busy week of volcanic eruptions continue, this time with Bezymianny joining in. Also, updates on the ongoing eruption and evacuations near Mayon.
The USGS/Smithsonian Weekly Volcano Report, with news from Guatemala, Colombia, PNG and more!
New video footage of an undersea eruption covered here in May and an update on the ongoing activity at Mayon.
It is holiday break time for Eruptions … and time to think about what to nominate for “Volcanic Event of the Year”!
Nicaragua’s Concepcion erupted for the first time since 2007, blanketing nearby villages with ash.
Increasing activity at Mayon in the Philippines (UPDATED with video) and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat have prompted evacuations. Also, two new NASA Earth Observatory images of volcanoes in action.
The Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise has posted some excellent time lapse video of yesterday’s eruption of Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island.
Evacuation orders have been extended to almost 50,000 people in the wake of the eruption of Mayon in the Philippines.
A number of nice images of volcanic plumes have been posted by the NASA Earth Observatory crew – along with some terrestrial images of the plume from Soufriere Hills.
The Colombian geological survey has placed Cerro Machín on Yellow status after a weekend of increased seismicity – the volcano is less than 25 km from the city of Ibagué.
It took some careful examination of topo maps, Google Earth and other photos to figure it out, but the identify of the latest Mystery Volcano Photo is no longer a mystery.
No, Yellowstone isn’t really “eating mountains”, Ireland fights man-made lava and the USGS gets its stimulus.