• Increased seismicity detected at Taal

    Updated: 2010-09-30 09:40:35
    The highly active Philippine volcano Taal, situated on the island of Luzon, had a restless summer this year: the alert level was raised by Phivolcs on 8 June 2010 following earthquake swarms and increased steam emissions (further detailed coverage from Eruptions here and here), and was then lowered again on 2 August when Taal appeared to calm down somewhat. [...]

  • SI/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 22-28 September 2010

    Updated: 2010-09-30 09:03:02
    Here is the Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 22-28 September 2010, published by the Global Volcanism Program and compiled by Sally Kuhn Kennert. Some highlights: Merapi: increased seismicity and inflation detected Piton de la Fournaise: significant increase in seismic activity – signs that eruption is imminent Reventador: three seismic events including episodes of tremor detected [...]

  • The Daily Volcano Quote: the world ends in fire

    Updated: 2010-09-29 17:26:10
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  • Volcano News: Drilling into a Volcano Aims to Help Predict Possible Catastrophe - Our Amazing Planet

    Updated: 2010-09-29 17:23:42
    , Follow : us Drilling into a Volcano Aims to Help Predict Possible Catastrophe Sep 29, 2010 11:30 AM ET By Brett Israel OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer Drilling into an active volcanic doesn't sound like the safest idea , but a plan to do so along a volcano near Naples , Italy , could help protect the city from a potentially catastrophic . eruption Geologists will drill into the volcanic formation , called Campi Flegrei , early next month . The volcano , part of a larger volcanic arc that includes Mount Vesuvius last erupted in 1538. The ground around the volcano , however , has been swelling for the past 40 years , stoking fears of an eruption that would threaten the roughly 1 million residents of . Naples The role of deep drilling at this area is then crucial , according to the drilling

  • Volcanism Blog: Increased activity at Reventador

    Updated: 2010-09-29 10:18:15
    Home About Copyright jump to navigation Increased activity at Reventador 29 September 2010 Posted by admin in Ecuador Reventador activity reports trackback Ecuador’s  Instituto Geofísico IG is reporting increased activity at Reventador , with an increase in seismicity from low’ to moderate’ , episodes of tremor , and a number of small explosions having been . observed In a special bulletin PDF issued yesterday , the IG reports that three pulses of activity’ were recorded on the morning of 27 September : a pulse of harmonic tremor from 07:05 to 08:43 all times are local an episode of tremor for 30 minutes from 09:07 with higher amplitude than the first pulse , and which was associated with a grey plume of water vapour with a small amount of ash that rose 400-500 metres above the summit and

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  • Volcano News: Volcanic activity in Arabian Desert makes Case for Increased Monitoring - United States Geological Survey (press release)

    Updated: 2010-09-28 19:23:02
    : USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS U.S . Geological Survey Maps , Imagery , and Publications Hazards Newsroom Education Jobs Partnerships Library About USGS Social Media USGS Newsroom Get Our News Contacts Products News Releases News in Your Backyard Science Picks Congressional Items Multimedia Gallery Get Our News For the Media Leadership Bios Request an Interview Media Contacts More Resources Real-Time Data About USGS USGS RSS Feeds Podcasts Employee Directory Print Email Latest Releases Scientists Take Temperature of Yellowstone Hot Springs Global Earthquake Alerts to Include Economic Loss and Casualty Information Volcanic activity in Arabian Desert makes Case for Increased Monitoring Volcanic activity in Arabian Desert makes Case for Increased Monitoring : Released 9 28 2010 1:30:24

  • Volcano News: Scientists Analyzing Ash From Icelandic Volcano - RedOrbit

    Updated: 2010-09-28 15:49:01
    Home Community News Video Images Space Science Tech Health Education Topics Shop Sitemap Search Space Science Technology Health General Sci-fi Gaming Oddities International Business Politics Education Entertainment Sports Print Comment Font Size Digg del.icio.us Discuss article Tweet Download full size image Scientists Analyzing Ash From Icelandic Volcano Posted on : Tuesday , 28 September 2010, 09:35 CDT Researchers working with the British Geological Survey BGS are studying ash samples collected from the Eyjafjallajökul volcano that could shed new light on the dispersion of volcanic ash following an eruption , according to a Tuesday report by BBC . News Neil Bowdler , a science reporter with the British news agency , reported that the samples were collected following the massive March

  • Volcanism Blog: The Daily Volcano Quote: San Salvador, 1917

    Updated: 2010-09-28 12:29:29
    : , Home About Copyright jump to navigation The Daily Volcano Quote : San Salvador , nbsp 1917 28 September 2010 Posted by admin in El Salvador San Salvador daily volcano quote trackback The inhabited regions about the base of the volcano suffered partial destruction in the earthquake that heralded the beginning of the eruption the capital , San Salvador , being particularly unfortunate . Ninety per cent . of the homes were destroyed or rendered unfit for habitation The outflow of the volcanic eruption , while abundant , caused comparatively little damage , since it was largely confined to uninhabited regions . Eight vents opened on the west side of the mountain , sweeping the slope with a stream of lava . A number of coffee plantations on the flanks of the stream were destroyed and , for

  • Volcanism Blog: San Salvador: living under the volcano

    Updated: 2010-09-28 12:20:35
    : Home About Copyright jump to navigation San Salvador : living under the volcano 28 September 2010 Posted by admin in El Salvador San Salvador natural hazards volcano monitoring volcanology trackback Dominating the landscape to the west of El Salvador’s capital of San Salvador is the massive volcano that shares the city’s name . San Salvador volcano last erupted in 1917, the beginning of the eruption being marked by an earthquake estimated to have been magnitude 5.6 which left up to 90 of the capital’s housing stock damaged or destroyed according to contemporary reports see today’s Daily Volcano Quote The 1917 eruption , the seat of which was El Boquerón , the main summit of San Salvador , lasted from June to November and produced extensive lava flows and ashfall , damaging crops and

  • The Daily Volcano Quote: prophecies of volcanic doom

    Updated: 2010-09-27 12:35:14
    It is September 12, 2001. The sky is a menacing iron grey, and has been so since the explosion several months ago. Snow lies two feet deep in Oxford Street, and on the frozen Thames heavily clad crowds jostle at stalls to barter for unidentifiable meat morsels to supplement their government rations. Ice has stopped [...]

  • Stress change may provide clues to possible eruption locations

    Updated: 2010-09-27 12:06:00
    It’s all rifts, dykes and magmatic intrusions at Nature Geoscience right now. Along with the paper by Pallister et al on the Saudi quake swarms of 2009, the journal is hosting advanced online publication of a paper on a recent episode of dyke emplacement in the Afar region of north-eastern Africa: ‘Stress transfer between thirteen successive [...]

  • Magmatic dyke intrusion behind Saudi quakes of 2009, says US/Saudi study

    Updated: 2010-09-26 22:11:13
    Back in the late spring and summer of 2009 western Saudi Arabia was shaken by significant earthquake swarms: 30,000 quakes happened between April and June, prompting large-scale evacuations. The earthquakes happened in the Harrat Lunayyir volcanic field and were clearly related to active volcanism in some way, but the details remained unknown. Now, however, a new study [...]

  • The Daily Volcano Quote: lofty Popocatépetl

    Updated: 2010-09-25 00:42:04
    Orizaba we were yet to see; but nothing could, we thought, exceed in interest the distant view of Popocatepetl from the top of our hotel in the City of Mexico, as the setting sun gilded its snowy dome, as it went down painted its snow fields with roseate hues. It is the grandest mountain summit [...]

  • It’s Not Your Mamma’s Hawaii 5-0 – World Premiere Last Night on Waikiki Beach

    Updated: 2010-09-15 04:04:02
    Over 5,000 fans packed Queen’s Beach, many as early as 10am, for the chance to watch the exclusive sneak peak of the pilot episode of “Hawaii 5-0”, a full week before it airs nationally on CBS. Preceded by the networks mass marketing campaign over the recent weeks of billboard images of the stars and a [...]

  • Hawaii Ecotourism

    Updated: 2010-09-11 03:41:26
    The travel industry, as with most functioning industries, is ever changing and evolving as consumers find new interests. One of the newest aspects of tourism and travel is Eco-Tourism. The sole purpose of Eco-Tourism is to maintain and improve the environment for future travelers and generations to enjoy and venture to areas that are protected, tranquil [...]

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