Volcanoes in and off Africa. including on Reunion, Azores, Canaries, Cabo Verde Islands.
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
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. 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
The pit crater Changouméni (created 1918?) in the northern lobe of the Karthala caldera is filled to the brim with new lava. 17/01/2007. (© OVK)
Fogo – aerial shot taken from an Airbus cockpit 2008. Photo by Aldo Bien, Wikipedia.
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