Pavlof Volcano ash cloud shows Alaska’s threat to air travel
Ash billowing from Pavlof Volcano is not high enough to affect international air travel, but Pavlof is just one of a string of active Alaska volcanoes that sits beneath the flight corridor between the US and Asia.
Read More →Explosions and Earthquakes Still Rocking Mexico’s Popocatépetl
By Erik Klemetti | Wired The high alert at Mexico’s Popocatépetl remains in place as the restless Mexican volcano still shows signs that new magma is at the surface, meaning a larger explosion could occur if pressures builds under the summit crater. Over the last day, the volcano has produced 22 separate explosions (see above) or “exhalations” of ash, as [...]
Read More →California homes sinking one by one in now abandoned subdivision near volcanic field
By Melissa Stusinski | Inquisitr Homes are sinking in a California subdivision built on top of volcanic country. Eight homes have been abandoned so far and 10 more are under an imminent evacuation notice after cracks appeared in the ground and entire sections dropped 10 feet into the ground. A Tudor-style house was a long-time dream [...]
Read More →Mayon Volcano spews rocks, killing 5 climbers
By Joanna Los Baños & Mar Arguelles | Inquirer Mayon Volcano rumbled to life Tuesday, spewing room-sized rocks toward nearly 30 surprised climbers, killing five and injuring others that had to be fetched with rescue helicopters and rope. Governor Joey Salceda, head of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC), said among the dead [...]
Read More →Ancient Volcanic Eruption Not Cause for Volcanic Winter
By Joshua S. Hill | Stabley Times Approximately 75,000 years ago Mount Toba, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupted massively, in what is termed a super-eruption. Research into the eruption has posited that it triggered a chain of climatic events which lead to a planetwide cooling of temperatures. Such a significant influx of volcanic [...]
Read More →Billion Year Old Submerged Crust Resurfaced From Volcano Found
By Mark Hoffman | Science World Report Because oceanic crust sinks at certain points deep into Earth’s mantle, scientists have long assumed that lava erupting from some oceanic volcanoes should contain materials from the early Earth’s crust. But any prove of this phenomenon was missing — until now. New research from a team including Carnegie’s Erik [...]
Read More →Yellowstone Park’s Volcano Larger Than Thought – But No Eruption Soon
By Erik Derr | Latino Post The volcanic system underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is apparently a lot bigger than previously believed, said researchers during a presentation at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America. Computer models of Yellowstone’s dormant volcano indicate the magma chamber beneath the surface is a continuous space, not [...]
Read More →Auckland’s Rangitoto volcano ‘could blow again’
Fairfax NZ News Auckland’s Rangitoto volcano could be set for future eruptions when it had been thought to be placid, new research suggests. It was thought that Rangitoto was formed by eruptions 500-550 years ago but University of Auckland scientists now say it has erupted intermittently for a much longer period – about 1000 years [...]
Read More →Yasur volcano in Vanuatu upgraded to level 2
RNZI The Department of Meteorology and Geohazards in Vanuatu says it has upgraded the danger level of the volcano on Mr Yasur due to more explosions and ash eruptions. The volcano on Tanna Island has been placed on alert level two, following an increase of activity recorded since last week. A geophysical engineer at the [...]
Read More →Kamchatka volcano eruption intensifies
ITAR-TASS | Indrus The intensification of the eruption of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano in Kamchatka has been recorded, head of the Kamchatka Volcano Observatory, based in the Klyuchi settlement, Yuri Demyanchuk, told Itar-Tass on Thursday. The intensified volcano activity has been recorded over the past three days, it is manifested in increased lava flow volumes [...]
Read More →Alert level raised at Indonesia´s Mt Guntur
The Jakarta Post Garut Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) chief Zat Zat Munazat has instructed Garut residents, especially those living close to Mount Guntur, to stay calm after the volcano’s alert level was raised to waspada (caution) or level 2 from normal or level 1. “Mount Guntur is still at a level that poses no danger; [...]
Read More →Earthquake Activity in the Canary Islands March 2013: Is a Volcanic Eruption on the Way?
By Jennifer Young | Decoded Science It hasn’t been peaceful recently on the holiday islands of the Canaries. Repeated small earth tremors have grown in size with the largest to date being an M4.9 which struck on 31 March 2013, Easter Sunday. What are the possible implications of this series of tremors for the volcanic island [...]
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