As I have layed out in the previous Peru article, there are quite a handfull of interesting volcanoes in Peru; it’s hard to choose the next one to introduce here. I take Sabancaya, because it is one of the two currently rumbling (beside Ubinas), and we might get to hear more of it in the…
Seismic activity in Peru is caused by subduction of the oceanic Nazca plate beneath the South American continental plate, generating the Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ) as part of the Andean Volcanic Belt. However, active volcanoes are found only in southern Peru, at the beginning of the CVZ which extends south into northern Chile. The rest…
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil It is said that within great beauty lies grave danger and few places are more beautiful than Lake Atitlán. Poets have filled cheap notebooks with particularly flowery hyperbole in their attempts to catch the beauty of the caldera lake…
UPDATE And in record time the eruption at Palena was debunked. I am though leaving the text as it is. The real-time minutiae of the debunking is to be found in the comments. /CARL The end of the year gave a lot of volcanic news, and the beginning is no less hectic. News is starting…
Some people are keeping a close eye on Hekla! Here are some links from the treasury which might come in handy. Hekla Hekluvöktun Hekla Data Collections for monitoring Hekla Hekla GPS Borehole Strain and Hekla Seimicity Website on Hekla ( Swedish) Jarðskjálftar Seismic stations close to Hekla They are also on our page “Wonder whats going on in…
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