Sinabung closing in on a real eruption

Some people have wondered why I have not written about Sinabung yet. The reason is that so far there has not been any real eruption. What has been seen so far was just a 3 year episode of throat clearing phreatic detonations. Now it seems like the volcano is closing in on starting the real…

Watching volcanoes from your livingroom.

Our very own Granyia has set up several pages of webcams watching volcanoes. While we are waiting if something happens around Hekla, Icelands rifting and earthquake happening around Grimsey Island calmed down a little bit. I thought we could fill the time, helping Graniya finding some webcams. The possibility to watch active volcanoes from your…

2 Etna paroxysms

Etna has been providing a show again yesterday 19.2. and early this morning 20.2. Etna seems to love night time action and most of us Europeans missed it, so I am trying to provide a short summary of the paroxysms. When I woke up and checked the cams around 7 a.m. on the 19th. ,…

Capturing Timelapse Videos in Windows

Hi All Many of you here like to view the webcams of volcanoes to see the live action. Unfortunately many of them are just jpeg photos that update every few mins. While you can get a sense of what is happening, it is difficult to get a true picture, and sometimes you can miss the…