A few brief news items in the world of volcanoes for today.
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The ash cloud of erupting Mt. Pagan in the Mariana Islands is captured by satellite – how many eruptions did we miss before all the remote sensing of our modern age?
The ongoing eruption in the Galapagos begins to take its toll on the local wildlife.
The Hut webcam gets right up into the new dome forming on Redoubt.
Llaima from space, lightning caught at Redoubt and an eruption video to send you to the weekend.
The Chilean government has its own ideas about what to do with the relocated town of Chaiten.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Mt. Hood in Oregon (well, maybe not everything, but a lot), the second in my “Volcano Profiles” series.
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The tephra building up near the summit vent at Llaima could cause a more explosive eruption to occur says the Chilean Geological Survey.
Almost 200 years later, you still have to just be awestruck by the magnitude of the “Great Eruption” of Tambora that produced the “Years without a Summer”.
NASA has been keeping an eye on the current eruption of Llaima from space.
$15 million dollars for volcano monitoring! That’s just throwing money into the caldera! (Just kidding.) The money has started to flow to the USGS to improve our ailing volcano and earthquake monitoring infrastructure.
Watch out turtles, Fernandina in the Galapagos is erupting again!
The Fernandina eruption appears to be an impressive fissure eruption. Meanwhile, Llaima is still steaming as Chilean geologists worry what might come next. Now updated with satellite images!
We’re almost at the one-year mark for the Chaiten eruption and the volcano doesn’t seem to be slowing down at all.
The eruption at Redoubt might have not seemed that destructive, but the economic effects might be more significant than expected on Alaska’s economy.
Mexico’s tongue-twister of a volcano, Popocatépetl, has been steaming away all year, but now things might be heating up.
Chevron’s oil production in Cook Inlet has been shut down indefinitely as Redoubt continues to rumble, albeit in a much more fashionable shade of Orange (for the time being).
After producing some spectacular fire fountaining and ash, the eruption at Llaima appears to be slowing down a bit … and why has the coverage of this eruption been missing in English-speaking media?
The Kuril Islands are chock full o’ volcanoes, most of which I only become familiar with because they erupt. Add Ebeko to that last – see why!
Geothermal energy has a lot of promise, but does the potential of causing an eruption negate that? No, because based on what we know, human drilling doesn’t cause volcanic eruptions.
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The USGS has finally released the research volume for the 2004-2006 eruptions of Mt. Saint Helens – and it can be yours to download for free!
The Tongan volcano is still erupting but people are already venturing out to the new island to explode … er, that is, explore.
New eruptions at Redoubt and Llaima are keeping officials in both countries on their toes.
Almost two days of vigorous eruption from Llaima in southern Chile are prompting more evacuations.
Ash from Redoubt is beginning to get in the way of life near the volcano in Alaska as the eruption continues
They might not truly be the “World’s Most Deadly Volcanoes”, but IAVCEI’s “Decade Volcanoes” are a list that shows just intertwined human society and volcanoes really are.