SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 6/10-16/2009
Your weekly dose of volcano news brought you by the Smithsonian Institute GVP and the USGS. This week’s highlights (not counting Sarychev Peak and Turrialba) include: 13,000 foot / 4 km ash plumes from...
View ArticleEruptions Mailbag for June 2009
Chaiten in Chile erupting in January 2009. Even after over a year of activity, Eruptions readers are still captivated by the volcano. Thanks for sending me your questions about volcanoes and...
View ArticleAlert level at Redoubt lowered to Yellow … is this the end?
Redoubt steaming in early 2009. Image courtesy of Calvin Hall. It has been a while since we spoke of Redoubt, but now it seems the reason why might be that the eruption is ending. AVO lowered the...
View ArticleSI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 8/19-25/2009
The slow summer for volcanic eruptions continue. Only 11 updates in this week’s USGS/SI report. Thanks again to SI’s Sally Kuhn Sennert for compiling the news! Highlights this week include (not...
View ArticleLarge eruption underway at Shiveluch
Undated photo of Shiveluch volcano in Russia. In case you haven’t seen the report yet, Shiveluch in Kamchatka has gone, as they say, “non-linear”. KVERT has raised the alert level at the volcano to...
View ArticleThe speedy magma of Chaiten (and it’s still going!)
Chaiten has made it back into the news in the past couple days, both with new events at the caldera and with findings from the initial blast in May 2008. Here goes: Chaiten erupting in 2008. Third Dome...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Galeras rumbles, a dome on Mayon, Kilauea lava flows and...
All the news to start the week: Galeras with a grey ash-and-steam plume behind Pasto, Colombia. Well, after my article on Friday about Colombian volcanoes, Galeras must have decided it was left out....
View ArticleMayon eruption update for 12/15/2009
The new dome erupting at Mayon in the Philippines on December 14-15, 2009. It appears that the eruption that PHIVOLCS had been waiting for at Mayon has arrived, with new magma reaching the surface and...
View ArticleWednesday Whatzits: Icelandic sagas, Chaiten, Erta’Ale’s lava lake and a...
Did I mention its a busy week? The lava lake at Erta’Ale in 2008. Image courtesy of Stromboli Online. Our Icelandic saga continues, with more earthquakes and more speculation/information on the parts...
View ArticleCoulées!
As a volcanologist, I am partial to impressive lava flows, especially in volcanoes that erupt material that you’d think wouldn’t produce big flows. For example, there are quite a few volcanoes in the...
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