Last month, the 3,400 residents of the fishing village of Grindavík, the town nearest the volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula,were evacuatedin anticipation of the pending eruption. The meteorological office reported Tuesday that the southernmost point of the erupting volcano was about 1.86 mile...
Fire and spewing rock - eight of the best pictures from eruption There have been spectacular scenes of orange and gold in Iceland after a volcano erupted in the southwest of the country on Monday. Semi-molten rock has been spewing into the air from a fissur...
Stunning images show golfers undisturbed by volcano eruption in HawaiiTyler Lauletta
While disastrous for those who lost their homes to lava, this is still normal activity for volcano country, and particularly Kilauea, which is a volcano currently in the process of building itself. And ejecting lava is the only way for it to grow. Featured Video For You It takes absolute...
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This part of the Big Island has seen some major lava flows before. In 1955, the lava flowed all the way to the ocean. Kilauea is the youngest and most active volcano on the Big Island. Just a few miles from the current lava flow, at a community meeting...
Kasatochi volcano, in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, erupted explosively on August 7-8, 2008 and the rich nesting habitat for several species of seabirds on the island was completely destroyed. The eruption produced thick pyroclastic fall and flow deposits and several SO2 rich ash-gas plumes ...
The 1959 eruption of Kilauea volcano is unique among recent Kilauea summit eruptions (1952 to 1968) in at least two respects: (1) a large collapse of Kilauea summit accompanied the eruption, and (2) the erupted lavas show a complex varia... TL Wright - 《Geological Society of America Bull...
A swarm of earthquakes for three days preceded the eruption by one week. The swarm activity gradually declined up to the eruption with changing the waveform of seismogram as lower frequency content. The beginning time of the eruption was clearly recognized by the appearence of continuous tremor ...
► We revealed the eruption sequence of 1895 eruption of Zao volcano in Tohoku Japan, as well as 1894 precursory eruptions. ► Mode of emplacement of each eruption was examined by geologic data and documents. ► Eruptions occurred at February, March, August and September in 1895, which be...