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The eruption at Shiveluch calms down over the weekend, the eruption at Soufriere Hills may have calmed down for good and a new rockfall at Halema`uma`u.

Now you can shop in a volcano … but watch out for the insurance premiums!

After weeks of showing signs of an eruption, Mayon sputtered to life this morning – is it a sign for more eruptions to come?

Apparently my readers are much smarter than I imagined, but this Mystery Volcano Photo should be a bit more of a challenge.

I try to give you a challenge, and you nail it on the second try. The answer to Mystery Volcano Photo #4 revealed.

Is seismicity increasing underneath Mt. Rainier?

Should you be buying volcano insurance if you live in certain parts of Australia? Well, probably not just yet.

Nicaragua’s San Cristobal looks like its starting a new eruptive phase this evening, with explosions and ash fall.

Take your best guess as I start the “Mystery Volcano Photo” feature on Eruptions.

The first Mystery Volcano Photo (MVP) is revealed as Concepcion in Nicaragua. Leave it to my readers to get it – no clues provided.

Your (late) USGS/SI volcano update and more shots of the ash plumes from Rabaul.

Mystery Volcano Photo #2 … take your best shot at identifying this volcano.

The second Mystery Volcano Photo was apparently way too easy for you savvy volcanophiles, so here’s another to test you over the weekend.

The weekly update on volcanic activity presented by the Smithsonian and the USGS.

Many people ask what books on volcanoes should they check out … well, here’s my list of the best general and technical volcano books.

The Halema`uma`u Crater continues to revive itself after the rockfall that clogged the vent ever-so-briefly earlier this summer.

Life is already taking back Kasatochi in Alaska, sulfur dioxide emissions have doubled at Mayon but an eruption may not be in the cards and tourism suffers around a Costa Rican volcano.

The slow volcanic summer continues, but a few volcanoes continue to rumble, including Popocatépetl and Chaiten.

For the first time in sixty years, six volcanoes are erupting out in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

I talk earthquakes on this Friday’s Flotsam post, along with an estimate of how much Kilauea has erupted from the Haleuma`uma`u Crater since it started erupting last year.

Excavating the Minoan eruption on Santorini, images of Rabaul and a snippet of information about the new signs of life at Gorely in Kamchatka.

The WORLD’S DEADLIEST VOLCANOES! Alright, not really, but we all love the “World’s Blankiest Blanks”, now don’t we (to a fault)? Oh yeah, and the moon’s surface was once totally molten.

New activity in the Philippines and Kuril Islands, but things are calming down at a few former hotbeds in Kamchatka.

Take part in a poll about the new reader features starting up soon on ScienceBlogs.

Seismicity has increased at Kanlaon in the Philippines, PBS jumps on the Yellowstone gravytrain and we dabble in “manmade volcanoes”.

I chime in on some of the discussions about caldera-forming eruptions and inflation of volcanoes in the Andes. Also, news on the stimulus money to volcano monitoring and “our island blew up.”

The fourth in my ongoing “Volcano Profile” turns our attention to the southernmost (known) active volcano, Mt. Erebus in Antarctica.

Vote for the next volcano to be examined in my “Volcano Profile” series.

Volcanoes are making noise around the globe and you can read about it in this week’s SI/USGS Volcano Report.

Send me your questions, pictures or whatever volcanically-related news!