What is a better starting point for our proposed list of new Decade Volcanoes than a volcano that operates in a way that almost no other volcano does? As the number ten of our list we hereby present a volcano that equally blends being an artesian well and an andesitic tephra producer of note. Without…
On February 14th Volcanocafe received the following email: “My name is Mercuysimo, I live in Jogjakarta (approx. 200km from Kelud) right now. I’m interested in sending you some volcanic ash sample from Kelud eruption, because in Jogjakarta we suffer heavily of ashes rain (more than Merapi eruption we’ve experienced before). If these kind of sample…
Hello and welcome to this double-article, in it you will get two different takes on the question if Kelud really will affect the global climate by two different writers. So, let us see if we get two different answers shall we? First part is by me, and the second part is by GeoLurking. After the…
As you might have noticed the result from the Volcano of the Month has been a bit late in coming. The most obvious reason is of course the explosive eruption at Gunung Kelud in Indonesia that we have followed extensively since well before it started. The other reason is the extensive work I had to…
We can now start to summarize the plinian eruption of Kelud that lasted 3 hours; even though the volcano is still smoking the eruption is now for all points and purposes over. We know that the eruption column was slightly higher than 20 kilometers and 254 kilometers away it deposited a 1 centimeter thick ash…
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