News bits from Chaiten, Soufriere Hills, Shiveluch and Alaska legislators wondering if airlines should pay for ash monitoring.
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I need help finding a couple classic UNESCO videos on volcanic hazards!
Soufriere Hills continues to flex its muscles over the winter, producing pyroclastic flows that reached the sea.
Kilauea has spent the last ~20 years paving over the Royal Gardens subdivision with lava … and now it looks like its going to finish the job. Also, a stunning shot of lightning and eruption at Sakurajima.
The snow in DC is preventing the usual Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report from getting posted – but fear not because here it is!
The Great Earthquake Swarm of 2010 at Yellowstone seems to be petering out.
Russia returns temporary funding the KVERT – volcanic monitoring will continue in Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands (until April at least).
Over 12,000 years ago, a caldera in the middle of Germany spread ash over Europe – and the Laacher See still seeps carbon dioxide.
The Japanese Coast Guard caught on film Fukutoku-Okanoba, an submarine volcano off Minami Iwo, erupting yesterday.
If this week couldn’t get much stranger, now we have mud volcanoes in Azerbijian erupting.
Lots of news for your Friday including the latest USGS/Smithsonian volcano report, fewer earthquakes at Yellowstone, satellite images of two active volcanoes and examining the inside of Etna (for all the wrong reasons).
What is the structure of a caldera … and if Yellowstone’s magma was making its way to the surface, what might we expect to see as harbingers of eruption?
A news report from Pakistan suggests a volcano just erupted in that country – which is quite a surprise. UPDATED: huh?
Sure enough, the last 2 days of earthquakes at Yellowstone seem to be getting shallower – but do we see any other changes in the caldera? UPDATE: now with error bars!
As activity increases at Ecuador’s Tungurahua, the question of evacuations comes into the spotlight.
Yellowstone makes it to the New York Times, Costa Rica defines some hazard zones around the reawakened Turrialba and how to vacation near a volcano.
Officials in Russia have decided to stop funding KVERT – the body that monitors and responds to volcanic eruptions in eastern Russia. This is bad news.
A pile of news to end your week, including new lightning that comes from volcanoes, ash fall across Ecuador, a new USGS/SI Volcano Report and storing your excess carbon dioxide in ancient lava flows.
The swarm marches on … but the pattern seems to show that the earthquakes are pretty much staying put around 10-11 km depth.
So why is the current earthquake swarm at Yellowstone not likely to lead to an eruption? Well, mostly because we’ve had so many other swarms that don’t lead to eruption, and this one shows no signs of it being any different.
The earthquakes at Yellowstone roll on, a river of lava is captured on video at Kilauea and a hazard map for Gran Canaria is released.
The latest volcano news from around the world – including activity at Kharimkotan in Russia and Planchon-Peteroa in Chile.
Two of Japan’s most active volcanoes get the spotlight shone of them – with some spectacular images as proof.
Two earthquake swarms have gotten people’s attention – the Yellowstone swarm seems to be dying down, but the swarm at Obsidian Butte in California is still going strong.
As the earthquakes keep coming, Yellowstone keeps everyone’s attention. Meanwhile, Turrialba in Costa Rica is prompting more evacuations. UPDATED And now Turrialba has a webcam!
There’s been an earthquake swarm in Yellowstone over the last few days – nothing out of the ordinary, but always exciting nevertheless.
More details on the current earthquake swarm at Yellowstone along with a reader-made video showing the seismicity of the swarm.
The crater is changing at Turrialba even as the activity wanes – but is there a crack at the summit?
A 7.0 earthquake just struck 10 miles from Port Au Prince in Haiti.