Right as Yellowstone is getting interesting (or at least had signs of interest), Eruptions is going on a bit of a break again starting January 2. This time it is because I’m off to the North Island of New Zealand to do some field work. I’ll be headed to Tarawera (hopefully both the 1305 and 1886 eruption deposits), Taupo, Tongariro, the area around Rotorua and maybe even White Island (amongst other). I won’t have my MacBook, but I will have my iPod Touch, so I’ll try to keep track and make brief posts if something big comes up, but feel free to use this post as a clearinghouse for any news or articles you run across until I return on January 16th.
Happy 2009 to all the Eruptions readers!
8 responses to “Two weeks in New Zealand”
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Erik, check out the latest report about Chaiten from the
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/
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There is good video of a restless Kamchatka volcano here.
It also says that the Russians are tying to get their volcano monitoring program in Kamchatka fully functional.
Video clip.
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=96873&videoChannel=2603 -
It appears like Chaiten will not be resettled.
“The Chilean government decided last week that Bahia Pumalin and southern Santa Barbara are the two most likely locations for the reconstruction of the far southern city of Chaitén.” The report was produced “by experts at Santiago’s Catholic University”.
Perhaps lessening the urgency to spend money on this problem is that “almost two thirds of the displaced have already settled in to new locations.”
http://www.patagoniatimes.cl/index.php/20090110722/News/Health-Sience/GOVERNMENT-CLOSING-IN-ON-TWO-OPTIONS-FOR-NEW-CHAITEN.html -
A software program apparently predicts these volcano to erupt in 2009.
http://www.intlvrc.org/forecast.htm
I don’t know how much credence to give to all this. We’ll see what happens.
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