• New round of severe weather to hit southern Australia

    Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued new severe weather warnings for parts of southern Australia today, January 12, 2015. After a week of severe bushfires, South Australia has been hit particularly hard by heavy rain which started affecting the country on T

  • Kliuchevskoi aviation color code raised to Orange, Russia

    Explosive eruption of Russian Kliuchevskoi volcano began on January 1, 2015 and continues, KVERT reported today and raised Aviation Color Code to Orange.Explosions send ash up to 5 – 6 km a.s.l., sometimes up to 7 km a.s.l. According to video and satellite data, a lava

  • Mercury from gold mines accumulates hundreds of miles downstream

    Duke University researchers have found hazardous levels of mercury hundreds of miles downstream from Peruvian gold mines. Researchers have determined that the health risks taken on by artisanal, small-scale gold miners extend far beyond the miners themselves. Based…

  • Large eruption at Shiveluch, volcanic ash up to 9.1 km, Russia

    A very large explosive event occurred at Russian Shiveluch volcano (Kamchatka) at 00:39 UTC on January 7, 2015. Tokyo VAAC reported volcanic ash at 02:15 UTC rose to an altitude of approximately 9.1 km.KVERT said pyroclastic flow was observed at the SE flank of the

  • Very strong and shallow M6.6 registered off the coast of Panama

    A very strong and shallow earthquake measuring M6.6 was registered off the coast of Panama on January 7, 2015 at 05:07 UTC (23:07 local time on January 6). USGS is reporting depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.5 at a depth of 2 km. Epicenter was located 245

  • Strong eruption of Soputan volcano, Indonesia

    Indonesian Soputan volcano erupted at 02:47 local time on January 6, 2015 (18:47 UTC on January 5), according to BNPB.A thick gray-black column of ash reached an estimated height of 6.5 km above the summit of the volcano and drifted ESE (approximately 8.2 km a.s.l.). La