ER is reporting a sudden increase of seismicity at El Hierro, Canary Islands, today. It's too soon to talk about a new crisis, but with five 2+ magnitude earthquakes on 13 earthquakes this looks more than the usual small M1 quakes reported in the recent
New activity was observed at 2 volcanoes between December 11 and 17. During the same period, ongoing activity was observed at 9 volcanoes.
New activity/unrest: | Kliuchevskoi, Central Kamchatka (Russia) | Puyehue-Cordón Caulle,
Head of the ANAS Institute of Geology's – Mud Volcano Department – Adil Aliyev told APA today that they received information about a volcano that erupted in Baku, Shabran region of Azerbaijan. Employees of the Institute of Geology have been sent there and will…
Volcanic activity along the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire” gave rise to a new island in late November 2013. The new island is in the Ogasawara Islands, part of the Volcano Island arc, about 1 000 kilometers (600 miles) south
Etna's New Southeast Crater began its 20th paroxysm of the year late on December 14. It ended at dawn of December 15, shortly after reaching its peak.
Although the eruption was relatively long, it was weaker than its spectacular previous paroxysm.
New activity was observed at 2 volcanoes between December 3 and 10. During the same period, ongoing activity was observed at 11 volcanoes.
New activity/unrest: | Kliuchevskoi, Central Kamchatka (Russia) | Shiveluch, Central Kamchatka
In May 2008 the Chilean volcano Chaiten erupted spectacularly and exhibited remarkable lightning activity. Photographer Carlos Gutierrez captured a few images showing unusual kelly-green lightning channels. In this briefing, lightning researcher Arthur Few explains the
A large vulcanian explosion occurred at Indonesian Sinabung volcano on December 10, 2013 at 04:30 UTC. Darwin VAAC reported ash plume rose to an altitude of 12 km (38 000 ft) and drifted 50 nautical miles to the NW.
Although it had a relatively calm period in last
Another phase of strong explosive activity occurred late on December 7 (morning of December 8 by Kamchatka time), generating a dense ash plume that rose to altitude of approximately 5.5 km and drifted 400 km to the north-east. This is the strongest activity since…
During past seven days 5 volcanoes had new activity, ongoing activity was reported for 10 volcanoes. This report covers active volcanoes in the world from November 27 – December 3, 2013 based on Smithsonian/USGS criteria.
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