Happy New Volcanic Year!

2013 will most likely go down to history as the year with the least amount of interesting volcanic eruptions. And with that I mean volcanic eruptions that have good instrumentation and webcam, because we need both to be really interested in them. Otherwise it has been a rather regular volcanic year. The two stars have…

Eruption updates on Nishinoshima and Etna

Nijima The little Island of Nijima next to Nishinoshima Island on the Nishinoshima Seamount is steadily growing and is now around 400 by 250 meters. Previously the main growth have been away from the island of Nishinoshima so it looked kind of dubious that the islands would merge during this eruption. Now there is though…

End of the world is currently postponed

The doomsayers and nibiruists seem to have their own sad little volcanic fashion trends. After their favorite volcano, Yellowstone, was found to be suffering from a serious case of dying they seem to have moved on. I expected them to find a new supervolcano to go on endlessly about. This time they though concocted something unexpected.…