My family owns a perfect piece of nasty swamp. It started its days as a mountain lake that probably contained trout and other nice things, but over the years it silted up and it slowly turned into a swamp. Some twenty years ago it was totally covered up with peat and turned into a rather…
One of my favorite pastimes is Google-walking along cities and volcanoes. I normally try to get hold of an online tourist guide for the area, and then I walk along it flying above the ground alternating with the street view. Yesterday I was Google-strolling around Campi Flegrei following the guide linked to below. I will…
Stromboli showed heightened activity during the last days and weeks. IngeB found an article on this behavior: “The stronger eruption intensity of Stromboli has also been subject to an article in Italian webnews. Because of the explosions at its summit, the civil protection organisation has hightened the alert level. http://www.meteoweb.eu/2013/04/non-solo-letna-anche-lo-stromboli-sta-eruttando-con-forti-esplosioni-avviso-di-elevata-criticita-dalla-protezione-civile/200183/ “ Siencia Obsoleta found a…
Since the beginning of this year, Inge B. has kept track of all of Etna’s activity this year and has submitted a summary to keep track of all this for everyone. By now, we have seen a dozen of paroxysms and several other instances of activity at various craters, so it is easy to see…
Etna has had its ‘paroxysm’ #many. Every eruption is spectacular, but when they are so frequent it gets easier to focus on what is different with every eruption. Bruce Stout and Newby noted that the activity lasted much longer than previously in this series of paroxysms. Why this is, is off course a mystery, but…
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