Bárdarbunga The Bárdarbunga volcanic system is the largest in Iceland and it has erupted more lava than any other volcano on the planet in the last 10 000 years. The volcanic system is 200 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide. The central volcano has a seventy square kilometer caldera that is ten kilometers across. Technically it…
During the late night, there was a large phreatic explosion near the northern shore of Lake Dellen in Sweden, long thought to be the result of an ancient meteor strike. Fortunately it was in an unpopulated area and no casualties have been reported. The eruption cloud rose to more than 12 km in height and…
Often, volcanoes are difficult to reach and it is not possible to have observers with a line of sight view of the volcano. Remote sensing of volcanoes and their products, pre-, syn- and post- eruption, provides a unique method to systematically analyze how they change with time and with the aim to detect possible precursors…
Some volcanoes deserve attention just because they are wonderful caramels that never stop tasting good. Nishinoshima is such a candy and I should really have written quite a lot more about her. In reality though it is hard to write about her since she does not have any monitoring equipment, nor does she have ready…
It is now quite clear how uneventful 2013 were for us volcano-lovers. Week after week we at Volcanocafé had to work hard to find something to write about, so we more and more explored out into long articles about volcanoes. In the end we started a series intended to cover entire North America so that…
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