VOLCANO ARMCHAIR HIKING – A Christmas Special

Fujisan

You may be about 90 and no longer able to travel the volcanoes of the world; you may be a young student lacking the funds as well as the friends willing to climb your favourite volcano with you; you may be an inveterate couch potato, or, you just want to spend some relaxing armchair time during the holiday season – don’t despair!

Sent Ash Around the World – Volcán CEBORUCO, Mexico

View from Los Aguajes in the east of Volcán Ceboruco. (© Juan Castillo Campos, via mapio.net)

As so often, and generally without intention, I have hit upon yet another volcano that has all the trimmings of a beast but seems not really to be recognised as such. Up to a few years ago there have been very few studies to find out about the seismological and structural properties of the volcano. Volcán Ceboruco is considered among the five volcanoes with the highest risk in Mexico, and the second most active after Colima volcano in the western Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Yet, scientists had to point out, in a 2016 study, “that every effort should be made to monitor its seismic activity”.

Volcanoes of Io – Part 2 – The Volcanoes

Galileo 1998 image of Io. This one shows two active plumes. Pillan Patera plume is at the upper limb of the moon. It is 140 km tall. Second active plume is Prometheus Patera center bottom near the terminator between dark and light