
Mount Suswa from the rim of the oldest caldera. Image courtesy African Spice Safaris
Volcanoes in and off Africa. including on Reunion, Azores, Canaries, Cabo Verde Islands.
Mount Suswa from the rim of the oldest caldera. Image courtesy African Spice Safaris
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.
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 Continue Reading
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. Continue Reading
Satellite photo of adjoining volcanic fields, Goma and Lake Kivu. Photo courtesy Photovolcanica. http://www.photovolcanica.com/VolcanoInfo/Nyiragongo/Nyiragongo.html
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. Continue Reading
…and the youngest volcano on Earth
Ardoukôba within the Assal-Ghoubbet Rift. View from SE, Lake Ghoubbet in the foreground and Lake Assal behind it. 3D-rendering of Google Earth satellite view.
This is hardly a place the average tourist would choose to use his saved up money and spare time to spend an extended holiday, and yet, it’s the place where many a scientist of any calling would gladly give an arm and a leg to be able to go for an extended research project. Continue Reading