Mount Spurr lies some 80 nm (150 km) due west from Anchorage. It is a stratovolcano that is visible on most days across Cook Inlet and lies on the Alaska Range. The mountain is 9,800’ (3,000 m) high and is topped with a 3 by 4 nm (5 by 6 km) caldera. The active vent…
In August 2008, a small volcanic island in the central Aleutians erupted for a day. The eruption was a VEI 4, resurfaced the island with pyroclastic flows, increased the area of the island by around 40%, and killed almost everything living on it. Pyroclastic flows entered the surrounding sea and buried kelp beds surrounding most…
Hephaistos, the lame son of Zeus and Hera, the King and Queen of the Hellenistic Pantheon, was the god of blacksmiths, artisans, craftsmen, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. He was also the weaponsmith of the Gods and crafted, amongst other things, the thunderbolts of Zeus. Of course the Romans, the greatest copyright infringers ever produced…
Every week I go through hundreds of images of volcanoes, and almost to a fault they are bombastic images of majestic strato volcanoes in dramatic light, or images of smoke and lava pouring out of equally majestic volcanoes, only problem is that I am bone tired of them since they are really bad if I…
Alaid’s summit stands 2339 metres above sea level, making it the tallest volcano in the Kuril chain. It rises up from a sea bed that is around 750 metres deep, making its overall height in the region of 3000 metres – quite a giant. Its birth dates to around 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, and…
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