Category: Volcanic Hazards
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Repairing after eruption: the Waimangu Valley and Mt. Tarawera
One of the more impressive areas I visited while in New Zealand was the Waimangu Valley near Mt. Tarawera (above).… READ MORE
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Interview with YVO chief Jacob Lowenstern on the Yellowstone swarm
I just wanted to point folks to an interview in US News & World Report with the USGS scientist-in-charge of… READ MORE
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Yellowstone New Year’s Eve Update
Yellowstone looks to be keeping everyone on their toes as we ring in 2009. The earthquake swarm reported earlier this… READ MORE
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Photos of the activity at Koryak
Some more information is coming out about the activity at Koryak (aka Koryaksky) in Kamchatka. Russian geologist Alexei Ozerov says that… READ MORE
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Is Yellowstone making plans for 2009?
2008 is almost finished and we’ve seen one of the few high-silica rhyolite eruptions in the past 100 years at… READ MORE
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Potential Russian eruption closes airport
News is filtering in that Koryak (aka Koryaksky) Volcano in Kamchatka might be heading towards an explosive eruption. The details… READ MORE
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The first stage of mitigation: education
When people think about volcanic mitigation, a lot of time is spent worrying about monitoring and science. There is nothing… READ MORE
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The last moments of Pompeii
Sometimes I wonder if we know more about the fates of people who died in a volcanic eruption over 1800… READ MORE
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Soufriere Hills from space
The latest eruption of Sourfriere was captured from space, and NASA has just released the MODIS picture of the volcano… READ MORE
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Soufriere Hills having a busy week
The blasts and pyroclastic flow from earlier this week at Soufriere Hills in Montserrat were not the only show planned… READ MORE
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Quote of the week
“It’s not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.”
~ Werner Herzog
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