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May 30, 2008
Category: Cerro Azul
I always find it interesting how and why news of a volcanic eruption makes it into the press. Sometimes it is just to report the eruption itself, however, a lot of the time it is more to report the...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 4:17 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Volcano monitoring
We've been hearing a lot of conflicting reports about the state and future of the Chaiten eruption. Now ending its fourth week of eruption, Chaiten was said to be easing up a bit, but recent reports have Luis Lara from...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:41 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2008
Category: Volcanoes in the media
I only post this because this is the sort of meaningless, unintelligible science journalism that drives me nuts. It doesn't really elucidate anything to the general public and it offers no details for the experts. I don't even know exactly...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 7:11 PM • 0 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Ash fall
This isn't really new activity, but a report on the ongoing activity at Soufriere Hills on Montserrat in the West Indies. Soufriere Hills is a composite volcano that has been erupting for almost 11 years now, producing pyroclastic flows...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Geothermal Energy
The Oregonian reports on the on-going desire to develop geothermal power in the Oregon and California Cascades and backarc. There have been attempted (or at least exploration) to develop geothermal power at Newberry Volcano, Crater Lake and Medicine Lake,...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanic hazards
Some news from the Chaiten eruption. Apparently, LanChile has cancelled some flights around the region of southern Chile due to the ash. They likely implies that the eruption column is bigger than reported by the SERNAGEOMIN on Monday, but...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:37 AM • 7 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
May 27, 2008
Category: Etna
If you're interested in the latest eruption at Mt. Etna (Italy), here are some great images posted at Stromboli Online. Nothing like some good spatter amongst friends....
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
Although the mainstream media seems to have lost interest in the Chaiten eruption beyond the "human interest" (or should I say "salmon interest") aspect of the eruption, there is still a lot going on at the volcano. The SERNAGEOMIN recently...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:43 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
Looks like a lot of you have found my (fairly new) Eruptions blog via the kind post over on another excellent volcano blog, the aptly titled Volcanism Blog. That blog is run by Dr. Ralph Harrington, a historian, and I...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:26 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2008
Category: Rabaul
I'm always amazed by the number of volcanic eruptions captured by satellites that we might not have ever even had known occurred otherwise. Case in point is Rabaul on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. An...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 4:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
