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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.
What is better than a volcano? A volcano that erupts a dinosaur!
The latest USGS/Smithsonian volcano report, with news of volcanic eruptions around the world.
Ash isn’t just a respiratory hazard – it can actually disrupt the power grid as well.
The mystery surrounding Karkar’s supposed eruption continues to grow as this week’s GVP Weekly Volcano Report adds some details.
I’ve gotten a lot of great reader photos for the Mystery Volcano Photo competition … and now I’ll start posting them. Have a guess at this one!
Google Streetview now lets you visit Pompeii, farmers in Hawai`i are eligible for disaster money for vog damage and National Geographic joins the SB fun.
The competition is getting fierce in the Mystery Volcano Photo competition. Take your best guess at #18.
Part 2 of the Q&A with Dr. Boris Behncke of Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania.
Volcanoes don’t take vacations, and Karkar in New Guinea is keeping me on my toes even in the holiday week – it might have just had an impressive eruption.
The “significant” eruption at Karkar reported last week turns out to be a significant phantom – how did the Darwin VAAC get such a large “false positive” for an eruption?