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Need your fix for news and information about Mt. Baker? Sure you do.
All eyes will be on Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland as it begins to show signs that an eruption might be in the works.
Excavation at Toba suggests that humans survived the eruption better than previously thought, the Yellowstone swarm was the second biggest ever and where to take a summer vacation.
Testing the volcano-earthquake connection in Chile, rumblings in Costa Rica, spiders migrating south, Sakurajima eruption video and Mayon returns to “normalcy”.
MSNBC has jumped the shark when it comes to coverage of these recent earthquakes, implying that nature is “out of control”.
Find out the latest volcano news with this week’s USGS/Smithsonian Weekly Volcano Activity Report.
Did a subglacial eruption in Alaska change caribou populations, Stimulus help helps update volcano monitoring in the Marianas and the changes to Soufriere Hills since 2007.
I may think 99.9% of Twitter is a waste of time, but the feed from ISS resident Soichi Noguchi is worth it, specially when he gets pictures of active volcanoes.
Both Chaiten and Llaima in Chile show signs that they might be headed towards new eruptions.
There are few spots in the world where you can see a mid-ocean ridge and the Reykjanes area of Iceland is one of them. Right now, earthquakes are shaking the Reykjanes Ridge, so are we going to see a new Icelandic eruption?
The latest USGS/SI volcano report, how we use the magnetism of minerals to tell us about a volcano and should we dispose of nuclear waste by throwing it into a volcano (?!)
Soufriere Hills continues to blow its top, while the submarine eruption off Japan shows off to the satellites.
Ash from Soufriere Hills has wreaked havoc on air travel in West Indies and Philippine officials have to remind people that Mayon is still dangerous.
News bits from Chaiten, Soufriere Hills, Shiveluch and Alaska legislators wondering if airlines should pay for ash monitoring.
I need help finding a couple classic UNESCO videos on volcanic hazards!
Soufriere Hills continues to flex its muscles over the winter, producing pyroclastic flows that reached the sea.
Kilauea has spent the last ~20 years paving over the Royal Gardens subdivision with lava … and now it looks like its going to finish the job. Also, a stunning shot of lightning and eruption at Sakurajima.
The snow in DC is preventing the usual Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report from getting posted – but fear not because here it is!
The Great Earthquake Swarm of 2010 at Yellowstone seems to be petering out.
Russia returns temporary funding the KVERT – volcanic monitoring will continue in Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands (until April at least).
Over 12,000 years ago, a caldera in the middle of Germany spread ash over Europe – and the Laacher See still seeps carbon dioxide.
The Japanese Coast Guard caught on film Fukutoku-Okanoba, an submarine volcano off Minami Iwo, erupting yesterday.
If this week couldn’t get much stranger, now we have mud volcanoes in Azerbijian erupting.
Lots of news for your Friday including the latest USGS/Smithsonian volcano report, fewer earthquakes at Yellowstone, satellite images of two active volcanoes and examining the inside of Etna (for all the wrong reasons).
What is the structure of a caldera … and if Yellowstone’s magma was making its way to the surface, what might we expect to see as harbingers of eruption?
A news report from Pakistan suggests a volcano just erupted in that country – which is quite a surprise. UPDATED: huh?
Sure enough, the last 2 days of earthquakes at Yellowstone seem to be getting shallower – but do we see any other changes in the caldera? UPDATE: now with error bars!
As activity increases at Ecuador’s Tungurahua, the question of evacuations comes into the spotlight.