Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil It is said that within great beauty lies grave danger and few places are more beautiful than Lake Atitlán. Poets have filled cheap notebooks with particularly flowery hyperbole in their attempts to catch the beauty of the caldera lake…
During the last couple of years I have argued that Yellowstone most likely is at the end of its life-cycle. There are many good reasons for me to believe that, let me first go through those before we move on to this week’s big news in Volcanology. Continental drift Yellowstone is currently moving into a Craton, a…
The big talkie during the weekend has without a shadow of a doubt been Etnas comeback. And to top it off one of Tondanos subsidiary volcanoes had an eruption almost exactly a year after the last time I wrote about the volcano. Etna The Sicilian giant is one of those volcanoes I rarely write about…
Some volcanoes just can’t catch a break. Imagine for a little while that you are a bona fidé supervolcano. You are the largest of your type on the planet, you are highly active, and by gosh you have shown what you are capable of. In a perfect world your 20 by 30 caldera explosion should…
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