Celebrating Kelud, Volcano of the Month in a very ashy fashion! + Riddles

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…

The ash of Eyjafjallajökull

I was always fascinated by volcanoes but living in Austria, my opportunity to see and study them was limited. The internet gave me a totally new possibility, which i neglected to notice for the longest time. Then in january 2010, i came across Dr. Erik Klemettis blog Eruptions, while looking for images of volcanoes. He…