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November 24, 2008
Category: Volcanic hazards
The lahars and mudslides near Nevado del Huila - or, in particular, the threat of more - have prompted more evacuations. Although the known death toll from the eruption and its associated lahars is still officially only in the...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 6:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2008
Category: Volcanic hazards
I've found a few more details about the ongoing activity at Huila in Colombia, including a video report from the BBC. It seems that the eruption at Huila is a photocopy of what happened at Nevado del Ruiz in...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 8:44 PM • 0 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Volcano monitoring
Klyuchevskoy has already had a busy year and now we have some recent photos showing a lava flow that is snaking down the side of the volcano. The website with the lava flow image has a pile of other...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2008
Category: Volcanic hazards
Eruptions and earthquakes go hand-in-hand a lot of the time. It only makes sense as magma needs to move under the crust, causing movement (i.e., earthquakes). Additionally, any sort of explosions caused by the release of volatiles might cause...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 7:14 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
I have been out of town for the past few days, but we do have some big (and unfortunate) news from Colombia. Nevado del Huila in southwestern Colombia erupted today and the ensuing lahar (or volcaniclastic debris flow -...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 7:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2008
Category: Volcanoes in the media
So, I get a steady diet of email messages here at the Eruptions HQ, so I thought I could try a little roundup of the great information/links that you readers are sending (and I apologize for taking so long for...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:57 PM • 3 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
Redoubt Volcano, in Alaska, is one of the more troublesome volcanoes in the state. Not only is it relatively close to population centers, but it also lies directly within the aircraft corridors above the Aleutians for planes headed to...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2008
Category: Volcanoes in the media
Just a brief note, but today (November 13) is the 23rd anniversary of the disastrous lahar at Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. Over 23,000 people died when a lahar, started by a relatively minor eruption of the volcano, swept down...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 6:35 PM • 6 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
November 11, 2008
Category: Volcano monitoring
El Reventador, the composite volcano in Ecuador, has been producing explosions and ash for the last few days, so says reports from the country's Geophysics Institute. El Reventador is only 100 km from Ecuador's capitol, Quito, and in 2002 the...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 2:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcano research
I just got back from a 4 day field trip to the Long Valley Caldera in eastern California, so I'm a little behind on posting. The field trip was great and I had a chance to see a lot...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
