Traducción en español a continuación Over my lifespan, I have looked at seven eruptions in progress, small and large, both from land or from airplanes. The first I witnessed was the Surtseyan one (1963-1967), looking at it from the mainland via binoculars it looked beautiful, the plume rising high from the sea, ash mostly fell into the sea,…
The volcanic vent affectionately known as Bob, a part of the Tanganasoga Volcano, south of El Hierro has resumed its eruption. Many people have declared it dead, Pevolca, IGN and Nemesio Perez has together declared the volcano dead more than 20 times. Declaring an active volcano to be dead seems like a rather futile endeavor.…
Yesterday an earthquake swarm started with a 3.4M earthquake at Herðubreið. So far the swarm has had 15 earthquakes above 2M, among those 3 where at Askja proper. This swarm as well as the previous ones at Herðubreið have been to the west of the volcano. And those earthquake swarms have been deemed to be lateral intrusions…
Originally posted on lithics:
Earlier I posted an info bulletin about this morning’s Banda Aceh earthquake. Rather than muddle it with more and more stuff, I thought it might be better to include this update as a separate post, as it is more of a discussion than a news piece in any case. The truth…
These somewhat interesting ‘mushroom’, like landforms are part of the volcanic landscape of Cappadocia, the ‘Land of Beautiful Horses’. Cappadocia lies in south eastern central Turkey, some 275 km south-east of Ankara. This article should serve as an introduction to what is an exceedingly complex volcanic province and only ‘scratches the surface’ of what is…
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