Articles on arbitrary groups of volcanoes, general issues, and articles that don’t fit any other category.
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! Continue Reading
Minnesota offramp. There is a marshy area off the photo to the right (west). Soil liquefied underneath the road fill and it moved. Vehicle was recovered intact. Driver was not harmed. Image courtesy ADN. https://www.adn.com/tag/11-30-18-alaska-earthquake/
Desert sky over Socorro County, NM. http://www.socorronm.org/things-to-do-in-socorro-new-mexico/
The Rio Grande Rift in New Mexico is a failed rift in North America, a rift that did not complete the separation of North America and the growth of a new sea between the two sides. Continue Reading
Shiprock, from the air, 2012 (© Doc Searls, via Flickr)
The author’s description reads: Shiprock ( or Tsé Bitʼaʼí, “rock with wings” in Navajo), is a monadnock or inselberg – in this case a volcanic plug, standing nearly 1600 feet above the surrounding desert in San Juan County and the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Formed about 27 million years ago, during the Oligocene epoch, Shiprock was once a vast and broad volcano, now eroded to its deepest hard parts. Its peak is 7,177 feet above sea level, and it is the preeminent landmark in northwestern New Mexico and the Four Corners area. It is also sacred in the Navajo people. Climbing, once done often, is no longer allowed.
Ritter Island, 9/2010 © John B. Dikaung (via Panoramio, Peter John Tate)
The Eastern Skaftárketill caldera seen from the air, at the beginning of the 2010 outburst flood. Photo/IMO
Image of Krakatoa, June 2008
(or make-believe Puyehue)
URA INFORM – Ukrainian Rating Agency
2011 June 05
Text above image: In the south of Chile Puyehue volcano eruption.
My choice of the most dangerous volcano of the world:
I have to agree with quite a few people. The most dangerous one is one which has been dormant for a long period of time and suddenly starts to wake up. Even more so if this sleeping giant lies in a densely populated area. Areas around volcanoes are often inhabited by large crowds of people.
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