Blog Profile / Volcanism
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| Archived Since: | December 10, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Daily Volcano Quote: the rock band and the volcano
Perhaps the most incredible Weather Control story involves the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. The Dead was reportedly playing at Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon. A short way into the second set, the Dead played the song “Fire on the Mountain”. Legend has it that while the band was playing a particularly “hot” [...]
The tale of the mantle-plume thermal anomaly and the lost landscape
Using three-dimensional seismic reflection data, UK scientists have recovered the topography of a landscape that has been buried beneath the sea-floor sediments of the North Atlantic for 55 million years. The researchers, from the Bullard Laboratories and the BP Institute in Cambridge, have traced the coast, drainage patterns and contours of a landform that emerged [...]
Indonesia: new eruption at Lokon
Reports from Indonesia indicate a significant increase in the intensity of the ongoing eruptive activity at Mount Lokon in eastern Sulawesi. Under the superb headline ‘Blarrr!! Gunung Lokon Meletus Kuat, Api Keluar dari Kawah’ (‘Blarrr!! Strong eruption at Mount Lokon, fire from crater’) the local paper Tribun Manado quotes local residents reporting powerful earth tremors, [...]
The Daily Volcano Quote: Vesuvius bubbling away
Vesuvius, which for some time back has been giving exhibitions of Nature’s methods of illumination, is growing even more demonstrative. Its eruptions are accompanied with strange rumblings and tremors of the earth, and there is an abundant outflow of scoria. At Sanvito a slight earthquake has occurred. It appears that the splendid phenomena visible around [...]
Lokon eruption: an update
I’m grateful to reader Raj in Manado, capital of Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, for sending over some translations of coverage of the Lokon eruption in the Indonesian press. From what he says, it seems that yesterday’s eruption was more a continuation of the earlier activity than a new large-scale eruption, although Tempo Interactive reported yesterday [...]
Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered
Just a brief note (for now) on what looks to be a fascinating discovery. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have discovered previously unknown underwater volcanoes in Antarctica. During research cruises in RRS James Clark Ross the BAS team discovered no fewer than twelve sub-sea volcanoes, some up to 3 km high, with at least [...]
The Daily Volcano Quote: Dr Erik Klemetti on Yellowstone
To celebrate the Eruptions blog reaching 1,000 posts, here’s its only begetter, Dr Erik Klemetti, puncturing, in typically measured and well-informed style, one of the favoured obsessions of the disaster-mongers and doomsday-lovers: Yellowstone. Show More Summary
Indonesia: Mt Lokon erupts
Following some days of low-level eruptive activity the alert level for Mount Lokon volcano (part of the twin volcano Lokon-Empung) on Sulawesi island in Indonesia was raised to the highest level yesterday, an exclusion zone was set up and evacuation orders were imposed (see the report on all these measures at Eruptions). Today Lokon confirmed [...]
The Daily Volcano Quote: the legend of Katla
Once it happened that the Abbot of the Monastery of Thykkvabœ had a housekeeper whose name was Katla, and who was an evil-minded and hot-tempered woman. She possessed a pair of shoes whose peculiarity was, that whoever put them on was never tired of running. Everybody was afraid of Katla’s bad disposition and fierce temper, [...]
Time speeds up in Sicily: an Etna enigma?
Sicily’s Mount Etna has been having a lively time of it over the past few days: there will be a more detailed report here soon. For the moment, here’s a bizarre thing. Did the most recent eruption on 9 July affect electronic clocks across Sicily, setting them fifteen minutes fast? The UK’s Daily Mail ‘newspaper’ [...]
After the jökulhlaup: all quiet at Katla
Following the short sharp glacial meltwater flood at Mýrdalsjökull, which was significant enough to breach the main highway, wash away a bridge and cause local evacuations, things seem to have settled down somewhat around Katla volcano. There have been no further floods and tremor under Katla has declined, although there has been a small earthquake [...]
Possible activity at Katla produces glacial flood
A possible small eruption under the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap in south Iceland has produced a surge of glacial meltwater, a jökulhlaup, which has caused flooding and cut the main road through the area. A bridge has been swept away, and local evacuations are apparently taking place. The jökulhlaup may be the result of a small eruption [...]
The Daily Volcano Quote: one woman against the volcano
At about midnight Matupi volcano started to blow its head off; the gurias [earthquakes] always seem to come in at night. The whole of the furniture and crockery in my house was rocking, and I looked out the window and saw that the mountain had a huge fiery peak. All around the house hundreds of [...]
Páll Einarsson on the Hekla eruption scare: ‘sensational stories about Hekla based on nothing at all’
Followers of the current Hekla eruption scare, and particularly of the role played by the media, will be interested to read an interview with Professor Páll Einarsson of the University of Iceland published in IceNews, in which he expresses his frustration with the ability of the media to make sensational stories out of nothing at [...]
Keeping an eye on Etna
Etna is stirring and might be ready to put on a show … time to watch the webcams, perhaps. Thanks to the Sage of Etna Boris Behncke and to Erik Klemetti for keeping us informed about the changing moods of the giant of Sicily.
The Daily Volcano Quote: reflecting on Mont Pelée
The latest Vulcanian throes have caught the attention of the reading world. Measured by volume of material cast out, or by force of explosions, the recent Antillean outbreaks rank below many others on record — far below the stupendous outbursts of later geologic periods; yet measured by mortality, the eruption of Mont Pelee on the [...]
Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report 29 June – 5 July 2011
Here is the latest Smithsonian Institution and United States Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report which covers the week 29 June – 5 July 2011, and is compiled by Sally Kuhn Sennert. Some of the highlights: Kliuchevskoi: eruption produces a plume to 7 km altitude Nabro: lava flows remain hot, brown ash plume rising from [...]
How the media gets it wrong, at Eruptions Blog
‘Hekla is known for its extremely varied and hard-to-predict eruptions’, says the Daily Telegraph. It is also known for not being by the sea. Erik Klemetti has a nightmare. It’s called ‘the way the media reports volcanoes’. Click here to read Erik’s high-class rant about the recent crop (e.g., see above) of volcanic misreporting. A [...]
Restless Hekla: an update
The global news machine showed much interest in Hekla yesterday, but little interest in getting the facts right, or indeed the volcano right. Many supposedly reputable news outlets followed AFP’s lead and boldly illustrated their reports on Hekla with a picture of Eldfell, which is many miles to the west on Heimaey Island. AFP even [...]
The Daily Volcano Quote: Azores too volcanic for telegraph
We need say nothing of the Azores. Their volcanic character is so notorious, they have given so many oft repeated warnings, in the shape of short lived islands, the jets of volcanic fire, as well as in the fearful destruction of towns and changes in the surface of the land, that the advocates of ocean [...]