Between a Volcano and a Hard Place – MANAM (🇵🇬 P.N.G.)

Lava flow from near the top of Manam volcano. 09/2012 (© I. Itikarai, via mapio.net)

Ima Itikarai, RVO, on 29 January 2005:
“… it has been a very eventful week … Tavurvur resumed eruption on Monday evening and Manam produced another paroxysmal eruption on Thursday night … . Our observation post at Warisi village was wiped out completely by what is described as pyroclastic flow … . All our equipment was destroyed by the event. There were about 14 people at Warisi at the time of the eruption and all got injured while trying to escape …” (From “Fire Mountains of the Island”)

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VOLCÁN CHAITÉN (CL) and a Town in Distress

The Chaitén volcano in eruption, October 2008 (© Gerard Prins, via Wikimedia)

The Sacred Mountain – G. AGUNG, Bali (ID) + ACTIVITY UPDATES + Webcams

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Gunung Agung, Bali (© Adem D, via tripadviser.de)

A volcano erupting in Indonesia is not something that would normally cause too great a flurry, so what is the hype with Gunung Agung? Naturally, people remember well its last eruption which lasted almost a year, was very explosive and, sadly, claimed ~2000 lives. Additionally, this time after official reports about unrest began, there were

Where the World Smells of Nutmeg – BANDA API

Banda Api southern lava flow seen from Lonthor village. (© Welly W, via tripadviser.com)

The lovely smell might change for a more sulfurous one – at least if recent forecasts of volcanic gas emissions or even an eruption of Banda Api come true…

Islas REVILLAGIGEDO (MX) – SAN BENEDICTO > VOLCÁN BÁRCENA

3D rendered image of Isla Benedicto from Google Earth.

The Revillagigedo Islands were discovered in 1533 by the Spanish conquistador Fernando de Grijalva; named by, and after himself, the Count of Revillagigedo who ordered the islands to be occupied in 1790. They are solitary remote islands, of interest only to military, scientists and adventurers; not much has been written about them over time. They gained some fame when Alexander von Humboldt mused about them in 1811, and in 1905 a ship reported that the islands had disappeared from sight.

Ongoing eruptions at Bogoslof Volcano Eruption of December 2016 – January 2017

Initial plume from Bogoslof on Dec. 20, 2016. Photo courtesy AVO via NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/science/an-alaskan-volcano-bogoslof-erupts-largely-out-of-view.html?ref=oembed&_r=0

The Tolbachik Hot Corner

Plosky Tolbachik eruption in 2012 http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/339347

Coming to the Point: FAIAL – Azores part 4

Aerial view of the Capelinhos volcano. (© Herbert Terra, via Panoramio)

Mystery at Momotombo

 

Momotombo with pyroclastic flows

January 4 eruption of Soputan Volcano, Indonesia

Jan 5, 2016 eruption of Soputan http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2016/01/05/major-eruption-of-soputan-volcano-indonesia/