On 15 July, a video of an explosive eruption of Erta Ale (Afar Region, Ethiopia) volcano was briefly discussed in the comment section. It was a small ash plume emerging from the summit of the ...

A repost on the region of Lassen Peak in California, originally written by Henrik in 2013 This article began as a regular piece on Lassen Peak but quickly expanded as I discovered how complex the ...

By Jean-Marie Prival, doctor in volcanology and founder of kīpuka magazine Like other natural disasters, volcanic eruptions can have an impact on civilizations. Of course they can annihilate them, but ...

The dashed lines in the map show the approximate locations of the calderas. Red is for the Campanian eruption and white for the Neapolitan eruption.

It seemed to come out of nowhere. In the midst of a quiet interlude, after the hugely damaging La Palma had ended, when the hugely touristic eruption at Fagradalsfjall failed to re-appear, and the ...

Kerguelen Island and the surrounding northern plateau are volcanically dormant or dead. So is the southern plateau. But the central area still has life in it. Both Heard Island and McDonald Island are ...

Not surprisingly, the cause of these volcanic chains lies underground. Australia is the world’s fastest continent. Continental drift is moving it north (10 degrees east of north, to be precise) at ...

This page contains useful links and graphics for the current notable event. The following is for mbl.is cameras, with a Thorbjorn focus March 2024 cams, MBL RUV operates several camera: March 2024 … ...

Another Holocene eruption happened on the valley floor, 20 km to the south of Dofen, more or less where the current dike is happening. A dike rose under the sediments filling the rift, but it wasn’t ...

And Laki was not even the largest fire on record. The Eldgja eruption which began in 934 AD was bigger, at almost 20 km 3. It happened not longer after the settlement of Iceland began – the Vikings ...

The Rockall plateau consists of two main parts, the higher eastern bank, and the lower western bank which is more broken up. The two main parts are called the Rockall Bank (a certain uniformity in ...

The location of the earthquakes suggest a possible eruption in the NW sector of Cumbre Vieja. However there is a factor of unpredictability. The exact path that the intrusion takes may or may not ...