Wednesday Whatzits: Haiti, Tungurahua erupts, Martian lava flows and a pile...
Somehow I haven’t posted a bunch of interesting items collected over the last few weeks, so I need to catch up. A pre-emptive hat tip to everyone who has sent me links or notes that might seem familiar...
View ArticleFriday Flotsam: Yellowstone slows down, Pakistan eruption clues, NASA images...
News! Pakistan is home to the world’s tallest mud volcano in the region of Balochistan – and its somewhat near the reports of an “eruption” earlier this week. Guess what? Since Wednesday evening,...
View ArticleSI/USGS Weekly Volcano Report for 2/17-23/2010
The flu has retreated and I’m getting back on track. Huzzah! I’ll get back to the blog by posting this week’s new USGS / Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcano Report. Looks...
View ArticleVolcano Profile: Erta Ale
The latest in my Volcano Profiles series, this one on Erta Ale in Ethiopia. The summit crater at Erta Ale in 1994 Location: The Afar region of Ethiopia. Height: 613 m / 2,011 feet Tectonic setting:...
View ArticleThursday Throwdown: More volcano news than I can list here
I’m still playing catch-up after my week in the desert, so I’ve seen a lot of articles I’ve wanted to mention … but a certain other volcano has taken up a lot of my time. However, I will attempt to...
View ArticleNo eruption at Mikeno in the Congo
Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Following up on a report earlier this week claiming that an eruption of Mikeno produced an avalanche that killed dozens, it appears that those...
View ArticleNASA Earth Observatory images of Cleveland (not the city) and Nyiragongo
The NASA Earth Observatory has been dazzling us with images from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption for months – but they have been dazzling us with volcanoes images for years! Here are two more images for...
View Article“Great” headlines attack!
Africa is threatened by “scorching hot blobs of magma” according to the CSM. Nothing like some fabulous headlines to make your day. The first (courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor) Massive blob...
View ArticleMystery Volcano Photo #23
We’ll try again with a finding a good Mystery Volcano Photo! The last MVP was Mt. Meru in Tanzania, submitted by Michael Dalton-Smith. Now, I thought this image was going to be a little harder than it...
View ArticleThursday Throwdown: Stromboli’s tiny bubbles, Hawaiian lava flow update and...
Lots of little pieces of news I’ve run across … time to play a little catch up. Stromboli: A volcano after Don Ho’s heart. Every once in a while, my RSS feeds will dredge up some articles from years...
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