The most dangerous volcanoes of the world. Your choices are ?

I was asked to prepare a talk for a “Deep Space” Live show on September 26 in the Ars Electronica Center, Linz ,Austria. “Deep Space” in this case is our special presentation room with 2 screens 16 x 9 meters on one wall and the floor. I am starting to prepare my talk today and…

Sheepy Dalek on a Saturday

Tolbachik is still going strong: More information: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80473 A screenshot I took 2 days ago: Best info provided on the KVERT site Etna showed 4 paroxysms but once Greg set his scripts on it, it stopped. Voodoo going on. (j.k) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Report on a Deep Space Live: The museum is also called “Museum of the…

Ruminarian IV – You asked for it.

CAVEAT: I am not a Geologist, Seismologist, Ornithologist, Hematologist, Banker (I have a soul), Congressman (I knew my parents), Auto Mechanic (well, professionally I’m not) or formally trained in any of this. I am an amateur, just like you. In other words, take it with a grain of salt, I can be wrong. This sort…

The Decade Volcano Programme

The volcanic eruptions of Mount St Helens in 1980 and Nevado del Ruiz in 1985 made the general public aware of the dangers of co-existing with a large and potentially lethal volcano. It doesn’t take much imagination to see the possibilities of a lateral St Helens-type blast on a population of a great city as…

A Volcanic ‘Grand Tour’ Part 3

Etna: a very special place Prior to visiting Stromboli we had visited Etna, but I have left what the locals call Muncibeddu until last. It is obviously very well-known to anyone with even the tiniest passing interest in volcanoes, and many thousands of words have been written about its volcanology. Etna has joined a very…