Thursday Throwdown: Updates from Gaua, Reventador, Soufriere Hills, Mayon and Cleveland

I did an excellent job of forgetting my notes from GSA 2009, so no wrap up on the meeting until tomorrow, but we do have some new volcano news to digest:


The crater of El Reventador in Ecuador in an undated photo.

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Don't tell the Scientologists. They may think it's the end of the world. (What to do with all these frozen thetans, oh nooo!)

By speedwell (not verified) on 22 Oct 2009 #permalink

link is broken on the ISS image...

By blueshifter (not verified) on 22 Oct 2009 #permalink

That ISS photo is awesome.

FYI... The Reventador article says that 3 provinces were put on alert about the possibility of an eruption, they have not been evacuated yet.

By G Mayberry (not verified) on 23 Oct 2009 #permalink

So I attempted subscribing to your RSS .xml, and it outputted a "Malformed XML" error... Can you tell me if it's me or the internet messing up?