Mount Bendeleben, Alaska http://www.summitpost.org/bendeleben-and-belt-lakes/805779 Earlier this year there was a significant earthquake swarm in Northwestern Alaska, north of the Seward Peninsula. While this wasn’t a swarm in the normal volcanic sense of a swarm (hundreds to thousands of smaller earthquakes in a period of hours to days), it was enough to get the attention of…
Thousands of volcanic experts & enthusiastic amateurs follow volcanos, one of the fundamental questions in modern volcanology is the manner in which a volcanic eruption is triggered; via the intrusion of fresh magma into a reservoir, the amount by which previously pooled reservoir magma interacts with a newly intruded magma will determine the nature and…
When I logged on the net this morning I found Ontakesan erupted in Japan in Austrian news.They had gotten the name not completely right cause it is Ontake-san. San meaning mountain in Japanese and it is also a title of respect. The name translates as “Honoured Peak” and Ontake is used for some more other mountains…
Don’t shoot it Martha, it’s bigger than both of us!! “Do like the gallant Roman soldier who, at the destruction of Pompeii, died in his sentry box. Remain at your post. When the critical moment approaches you may — to cheer yourself up — sing ‘Let me like a soldier fall.” Well, talk about futile…
Whenever a new post is needed in a very short time and it is not supposed to last for very long till it will be replaced, I try to sum up what happened the last days and what our commenters had been bringing to the blog. And it would be a shame to miss those…
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