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July 31, 2008
Category: Jebel At Tair
I'm always pleased to see more countries setting up volcanic monitoring networks. Well, I suppose I'm pleased when it is a volcanically-active country, I mean, Switzerland setting up one might be a little silly, but anyway. After last year's...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2008
Category: Volcano monitoring
I have a few bits of news about one (of the three) volcanoes erupting in Ecuador. Reports from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Ecuador says the volcano is still erupting ash and there is evidence that lava is...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 4:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2008
Category: Soufriere Hills
It seemed like events at Soufriere Hills had been heading for a dome collapse for the past few week and sure enough, part of the summit dome collapsed last night, producing pyroclastic flows that reached the ocean along with...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 11:21 AM • 0 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
July 28, 2008
Category: Reventador
Ecuador's Geophysical Institute is reporting that Reventador is currently erupting ash. Apparently, there is no threat to nearby Quito or any pipelines near the volcano. The volcano last erupted in 2007 (although the article incorrectly reports 2002) with small...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 6:11 PM • 3 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Okmok
After raising the alert level at Okmok Caldera in Alaska to Red over the weekend, AVO has reduced it to Orange. Reports have the volcano producing ash columns of less than 20,000 feet versus the 35,000+ foot columns earlier...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 3:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2008
Category: West Indies
There haven't been any major developments volcano-wise over the weekend, just a few updates on some current rumblings: Soufriere Hills (Montserrat) coughed up more ash, producing ash columns to "thousands of feet" according to reports from the MVO. The eruptions/explosions...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 9:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2008
Category: Chaiten
ONEMI, the Emergency Office of Chile, is expressing concerns that Chaiten might be readying an even bigger blast than what we've seen already in the past few months. In particular, ONEMI direction Carmen Fernández is concerned that the volcano might have...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:17 PM • 14 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Cleveland
The Alaska Volcano Observatory is reporting that both current eruptions in the Aleutians - at Okmok Caldera and Mount Cleveland - are showing signs of a lava extruding from the vent. Thermal anomalies have been imaged at the vents...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 24, 2008
Category: Chaiten
I am beginning to feel like a broken record, but the latest reports from Chile indicate that the ongoing eruption at Chaiten is ramping back up again, almost 3 months after the initial eruption began. As usual, the nitty-gritty...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 4:34 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
July 22, 2008
Category: Tungurahua
Admittedly, this is only a brief report, but there are indications that Tungurahua in Ecuador might be heading into a new period of heightened activity. Over the last week or so, there has been increased seismicity, reports of "booming...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 3:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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