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September 29, 2008
Category: Italy
The Discovery Channel brings us a story on how the exact (well, semi-exact if you read the article) date for the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius has been nailed down by dating, well, fish sauce. The findings? The records...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:20 PM • 0 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
September 26, 2008
Category: Volcanoes in the media
It has been awhile since we've talked of Chaiten, so I thought I'd touch upon "the eruption of 2008" (really, no one else is close). Spring time has arrived in southern Chile, and the Patagonia area has cleaned up...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcano monitoring
Shiveluch in Kamchatka experience a small eruption today. Russian authorities reported a ~4,500 meter ash column with associated local earthquakes, likely related to the eruption. In the same article, both Karymsky and Klyuchevskaya Sopka (also known as Kliuchevskoi) are erupting or showing signs...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 11:58 AM • 0 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
September 25, 2008
Thanks to everyone who has responded to my Eruptions poll so far. Looks like we have a couple clear favorites, based on the results right now: Profiles of historic eruptions - 35% Profiles of active volcanoes - 33% Discussion of...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 10:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcano monitoring
If anyone has been watching the earthquakes worldwide today, you might have noticed that there have been three >M2.5 earthquakes in the Yellowstone Caldera today at depths <10 km. Not to say that it is anything, but just something...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 3:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcano research
This might not be directly related to a volcanic eruption, but it has been picked up by a lot of news sources, so I thought I'd give it a mention. A report from researchers at University of Texas hypothesize...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:15 PM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
September 23, 2008
Category: Eruptions Blog
As you could probably figure out, sometimes there isn't much new volcano-related news out there in the get interwebs. I've been trying to think of ways to fill in some of that time, but I thought I'd ask you,...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 3:48 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2008
Category: Piton de la Fournaise
It seems that a new fissure eruption has begun at Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean*. In fact, the report goes onto say that a small lava lake has formed at the main crater of...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 18, 2008
Category: Volcano monitoring
Ruapehu is a noisy volcano, showing signs of eruptions on a yearly basis. It is also a potentially very hazardous volcano as it produces abundant lahars and has the capacity to generate a catastrophic lahar if the crater lake...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 16, 2008
Category: Volcano research
It is always fun to me when we discover that a volcano long considered dormant or extinct has seen activity in the recent past. I bring this up because Mount Nantai in Japan, a volcano that was considered to...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 4:05 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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