• Visit the Kaupo Store in Maui

    Updated: 2011-07-30 03:15:10
    A great thing about traveling is seeing unique places. While Hawaii is known for its gorgeous beaches and roaring waterfalls, not much mention is generally given to some of the unique stores here in the islands. And they don’t get much more unique than the Kaupo Store on Maui. Located past the town of Hana, [...]

  • Hamoa Beach

    Updated: 2011-07-29 21:09:01
    Ernest Hemingway purportedly called Hamoa Beach the world’s best beach. The author of Hawaii, James Michener, considered Hamoa Beach to be the most beautiful beach in the Pacific. But don’t just take these famous author’s word for it, this gorgeous Hana beach is indeed one of the most serene spots in the world. Walking along [...]

  • Volcano News: 3.2 earthquake on Hawaii Island near Volcano - Big Island Video News

    Updated: 2011-07-29 05:24:30
    Home Community Hamakua Hilo Ka'u Kailua-Kona Kohala Mauna Kea North Kohala Puna South Kona Sports Volcano Daily Newscast Featured Hawaii County Regions Hamakua Coast Hilo Ka‘ū Kailua-Kona Kohala Mauna Kea North Kohala Puna South Kona Volcano Sports State News About Subscribe News Regions Hamakua Coast Hilo Ka‘ū Kailua-Kona Kohala Mauna Kea North Kohala Puna South Kona Volcano Join our Mailing List Sign up for our Email Video Alerts For Email Marketing you can trust Home Volcano Currently : Reading 3.2 earthquake on Hawaii Island near Volcano July 28, 2011 Volcano No Comments HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK , Hawaii A 3.2 duration magnitude quake shook on the Big Island of Hawaii near the active Kilauea volcano area within the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Thursday , according to the .

  • Satellite Imagery of Natural Hazards from NASA Earth Observatory: Fires in Northern Argentina

    Updated: 2011-07-27 23:54:35
    Fires are scattered across the Gran Chaco in this image of northern Argentina taken on July 25, 2011.

  • Volcano News: Quake-volcano links probed - The Daily Yomiuri

    Updated: 2011-07-27 19:33:48
    Subscribe JAPANESE Home National Sports Business World Careers Features Photos Columns Editorial Top Culture DY Weekend The Language Connection Science Nature Home Features Science Nature Weather Science Nature Top Quake-volcano links probed Taizan Emura Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer It is not unusual for dormant volcanoes to erupt several months or years after a great earthquake . But is there a causal relationship between massive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions Will the Great East Japan Earthquake affect volcanoes in this country Researchers have been trying to answer these . questions Two days after a magnitude-9.5 earthquake struck Chile in 1960, the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted . The volcano erupted again in June this year , following a magnitude-8.8 temblor in February

  • Via Volcano Heaven: You can buy gorgeous posters of volcano images from the Official...

    Updated: 2011-07-27 08:38:00
    You can buy gorgeous posters of volcano images from the Official National Geographic Print store: http://www.printsngs.com/natgeo/search/?q=steve+Donna+O%27Meara

  • Surfing Goat Dairy

    Updated: 2011-07-26 05:19:41
    One doesn’t normally equate the words Maui and dairy in the same sentence, but yet one of the best places to visit on the island of Maui is Surfing Goat Dairy. This 42-acres farm is located on the verdant slopes of Haleakala. Not only is a gorgeous farm to visit, this farm produces some of [...]

  • Alii Kula Lavender Farm

    Updated: 2011-07-23 04:33:15
    One of the highlights of any vacation to Maui is a visit to the Alii Kula Lavender Farm. Located on the slopes of Haleakala, this remarkable lavender farm grows over 31 different varieties of lavender. Why grow so many different varieties of lavender you might wonder? Each of the lavenders is used for a different [...]

  • Brief announcement

    Updated: 2011-07-21 10:33:16
    Apologies for the lack of updates at the moment, I’ve been unwell (nothing serious). I’ll be catching up with things as soon as I can. In the meantime, here’s a nice painting of Vesuvius from 1797 to enjoy: Giovanni Battista Lusieri, ‘Vesuvius from Posillipo by Night, during the Eruption of 1787′.

  • Shim Coffee Farm

    Updated: 2011-07-20 03:18:07
    One of the best things a coffee lover can do on their Hawaii vacation is to take a tour of a coffee farm. On our fantastic Maui Food Tour, we take you to visit the Shim Coffee Farm in Kula. Your walking tour of the farm will include up-close looks at coffee beans, coffee trees [...]

  • Another large eruption at Lokon (updated)

    Updated: 2011-07-17 09:46:10
    Another large eruption of Mount Lokon in Sulawesi this morning (Sunday 17 July), according to news reports: a 3.5 km altitude ash plume, and the first confirmed fatality of the current eruptive episode, a woman suffering a heart attack as she fled the eruption [CORRECTION: apparently this unfortunate event occurred during last week's eruptions]. Indonesian [...]

  • Mount Lokon eruption continues

    Updated: 2011-07-15 08:33:32
    Mount Lokon volcano, North Sulawesi, erupting on 14 July 2011 (image courtesy Tribun Manado, via Earthquake-Report.com). The eruption of Sulawesi’s Mount Lokon that began yesterday (after days of lower-level eruptive activity) continues, with spectacular explosive activity and the eruption of ash and lava. Ash has darkened the sky over the city of Manado. Darwin VAAC [...]

  • The Daily Volcano Quote: the rock band and the volcano

    Updated: 2011-07-14 23:39:47
    Perhaps the most incredible Weather Control story involves the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. The Dead was reportedly playing at Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon. A short way into the second set, the Dead played the song “Fire on the Mountain”. Legend has it that while the band was playing a particularly “hot” [...]

  • The tale of the mantle-plume thermal anomaly and the lost landscape

    Updated: 2011-07-14 23:16:32
    Using three-dimensional seismic reflection data, UK scientists have recovered the topography of a landscape that has been buried beneath the sea-floor sediments of the North Atlantic for 55 million years. The researchers, from the Bullard Laboratories and the BP Institute in Cambridge, have traced the coast, drainage patterns and contours of a landform that emerged [...]

  • Indonesia: new eruption at Lokon

    Updated: 2011-07-14 21:57:39
    Reports from Indonesia indicate a significant increase in the intensity of the ongoing eruptive activity at Mount Lokon in eastern Sulawesi. Under the superb headline ‘Blarrr!! Gunung Lokon Meletus Kuat, Api Keluar dari Kawah’ (‘Blarrr!! Strong eruption at Mount Lokon, fire from crater’) the local paper Tribun Manado quotes local residents reporting powerful earth tremors, [...]

  • The Daily Volcano Quote: Vesuvius bubbling away

    Updated: 2011-07-14 00:12:17
    Vesuvius, which for some time back has been giving exhibitions of Nature’s methods of illumination, is growing even more demonstrative. Its eruptions are accompanied with strange rumblings and tremors of the earth, and there is an abundant outflow of scoria. At Sanvito a slight earthquake has occurred. It appears that the splendid phenomena visible around [...]

  • Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered

    Updated: 2011-07-12 23:29:35
    Just a brief note (for now) on what looks to be a fascinating discovery. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have discovered previously unknown underwater volcanoes in Antarctica. During research cruises in RRS James Clark Ross the BAS team discovered no fewer than twelve sub-sea volcanoes, some up to 3 km high, with at least [...]

  • The Daily Volcano Quote: Dr Erik Klemetti on Yellowstone

    Updated: 2011-07-12 23:03:46
    To celebrate the Eruptions blog reaching 1,000 posts, here’s its only begetter, Dr Erik Klemetti, puncturing, in typically measured and well-informed style, one of the favoured obsessions of the disaster-mongers and doomsday-lovers: Yellowstone. Sometimes I think that people have an unhealthy obsession with Yellowstone Caldera. Sure, it is big, powerful and the stuff that disaster [...]

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