Revisiting Menengai Crater, Kenya

Rim of Menengai crater.  Note multiple layers capping the scarp.  Image courtesy Kenya Geographic, Dec 2010

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Central Madagascar Volcanic Fields

Central Madagascar volcanic field. Note multiple cinder cones in the field. Image courtesy WUSTL, 2016

Debris Avalanche at Mount Meru, Tanzania

Peak of Mount Meru on the northern flank of the volcano looking south. Flank collapse amphitheater clearly visible on the left of the volcano. Image courtesy Wiki

Mount Longonot, Kenya

Mount Longonot most recent caldera (pit crater) with line of pyroclastic craters down flank fissure on the north.  Massive lava flow on the flank visible on the lower left of the photo.  Image courtesy Lonely Planet

The Double Caldera of Mount Suswa, Kenya

Mount Suswa from the rim of the oldest caldera. Image courtesy African Spice Safaris

Manda-Inakir, Rifting Volcanism in the Afar

Manda – Inakir recent volcanism. The Kammourta volcano is flagged at the red pointer. It is the 1928 – 1929 most recent eruption from this system. Multiple lava flows at center to the south of the main line of lava flows is the Dabbahu Manda Hararo rifting event of 2005 – 2010. The Andabba plain is to the lower right of the image. Google Maps screen capture.

Quite Off the Beaten Track – ASCENSION I. 🇦🇨

View from Green Mountain across volcanic cinder cones, with Sisters Peak towering over the little town of Two Boats. (© BBC)

“The 7th June anno 1656. Att evening wee arrived att Ascention and anchored on the NW side of the iland. On our rightt hand was a faire sandy bay

If it Wasn’t for Science, we Might Never have Known – MAYOTTE (🇾🇹) EQs

Aerial view of Mayotte: Petite Terre, with Grande-Terre in the background. Aug. 2018. (© Gil40100, via tripadvisor.com)

On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UTC, many seismographs around the world began scribbling a strange signal that looked only remotely like a normal earthquake. Someone spotted it, and it didn’t take long until, in the social media, tinhattery boiled over the rim and attention-seekers had a heyday.

Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Volcanoes, Congo

Satellite photo of adjoining volcanic fields, Goma and Lake Kivu. Photo courtesy Photovolcanica. http://www.photovolcanica.com/VolcanoInfo/Nyiragongo/Nyiragongo.html

Magical MENENGAI CRATER – Kenya

Panorama of Menengai Crater. (© Stefano & Michael Amani, kenyavacanze.org)

If our reader Cate hadn’t mentioned it in a comment I would never have thought of writing about Menengai Crater.  It is one of the rift volcanoes in western central Kenya, within the wonderful and strange landscape of the Kenyan Rift valley.