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Excavating the Minoan eruption on Santorini, images of Rabaul and a snippet of information about the new signs of life at Gorely in Kamchatka.
The WORLD'S DEADLIEST VOLCANOES! Alright, not really, but we all love the "World's Blankiest Blanks", now don't we (to a fault)? Oh yeah, and the moon's surface was once totally molten.
New activity in the Philippines and Kuril Islands, but things are calming down at a few former hotbeds in Kamchatka.
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Seismicity has increased at Kanlaon in the Philippines, PBS jumps on the Yellowstone gravytrain and we dabble in "manmade volcanoes".
I chime in on some of the discussions about caldera-forming eruptions and inflation of volcanoes in the Andes. Also, news on the stimulus money to volcano monitoring and "our island blew up."
The fourth in my ongoing "Volcano Profile" turns our attention to the southernmost (known) active volcano, Mt. Erebus in Antarctica.
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Volcanoes are making noise around the globe and you can read about it in this week's SI/USGS Volcano Report.
Send me your questions, pictures or whatever volcanically-related news!
Is there a volcanic eruption occurring on Venus?
The latest volcano news from the USGS and Smithsonian.
A roundup of the latest volcanically-related NASA Earth Observatory images, including Rabaul, Shiveluch and a great panorama of the Canary Islands.
The continuing effects of eruptions past at two volcanoes and the best of volcano-inspired literature.
Mystery volcano in Kamchatka is disrupting flights to Asia and the local residents around Kelud in Indonesia refuse to heed the warnings of an imminent eruption. UPDATE: Erroneous news feeds got me ... this is old news (but still illustrates an important point).
On second thought, living on an active volcano might be problematic.
The weekly Smithsonian / USGS Volcano Report brings us news from Indonesia, Philippines, Russia and more.
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Thermal images of the dome at Shiveluch, things quieting down at some volcanoes in Indonesia and the alert level is raised at Sakurajima - all this and more in this week's GVP update.
Shiveluch continues its noisy summer, we hope to avoid unnecessary noise at Crater Lake National Park and former noise spotted on Mars.