Worries of Mega-Tsunami ! 720 Earthquakes On El Hierro In One Week
“An unprecedented 720 earthquakes have been recorded on El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, during the past week,” says this article by Mark Dunphy. Described as a “significant increase in seismic activity,” the earthquake swarm has prompted the Canary Islands Government to convene the first ever meeting of the Steering Committee and Volcanic [...]
Small Volcano Eruptions Add to a Cooler Climate
Along with sulfur emitted by coal-burning power plants, volcanic particles spewed high in the atmosphere reduced the amount of global warming otherwise expected during the 2000s, a new study finds. Relatively small volcanic eruptions last decade sent sulfur high enough in the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and help stall a rising global temperature trend. The [...]
Mount Cleveland Volcano Under Alert in Alaska
The alert level for an Alaska volcano is being raised after officials say persistent thermal anomalies have been spotted in satellite data. The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday raised the level Cleveland Volcano to advisory from unassigned. There is no real-time seismic network at the volcano, located 939 miles southwest of Anchorage on an uninhabited [...]
Volcano Re-Erupts in Indonesia, Triggering Panic, Massive Evacuation
JAKARTA, July 15 (Xinhua) — A volcano in Indonesia’s north Sulawesi province re-erupted at midnight Thursday, triggering panic and massive evacuation of the people living in the dangerous zone of 3.5 kilometers from the volcano, the country’s volcanology agency and disaster management agency reported early Friday. Mount Lokon, which has had several eruptions in [...]
Massive Volcanoes Reaching 10,000 ft Above the Ocean Floor Found Near Antarctica
A chain of a dozen undersea volcanoes some reaching nearly 10,000 feet above the ocean floor , and several of them active, have been near Antarctica, south of the South Sandwich Islands — desolate, ice-covered volcanoes that rise above the southern Atlantic Ocean about halfway between South America and South Africa which erupted as recently [...]
Iceland’s Hekla Volcano ‘Ready to Erupt’
REYKJAVIK - ONE of Iceland’s most feared volcanoes, Hekla, looks ready to erupt, with measurement instruments showing likely magma movement, an Icelandic geophysicist said on Wednesday. The volcano is close to the ash-spewing Eyjafjoell, which last year caused the world’s biggest airspace shut down since World War II, affecting more than 100,000 flights and eight [...]
