Volcanic Eruption News

NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of a smoke plume coming from the Bezymianny volcano on the the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.

Asia Pacific News.Net Saturday 28th November, 2009 Sydney, November 28 : In a new research, an international team of geologists has determined that sulfur-rich ores that blanket Western Australia may have formed billions of years ago from volcanic eruptions, which eventually settled around hot springs on the ocean floor.

Steam and smoke trail off the active Soufrie volcano on March 9, 2008 in Little Bay, Montserrat.

''DON'T ever call them ponies, they don't like it and their owners will make their displeasure known too'' warned the splendidly named Haukur Parelius as we hurtled along a deserted, Icelandic rural road.

The tools of movie magic: on the set of "The Road" "He looks like something the cat dragged onto the set," the director says of his star, and glancing over at the fellow in question you have to agree.

Cast and crew is ready to film a scene of "The Road" against a backdrop of dead trees near Mount St.

More than 300 villagers have been evacuated in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu after an erupting volcano started spewing smoke and ash onto their homes, the Red Cross says.

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FuturePundit points me to a new paper on the Toba explosion , Environmental impact of the 73 ka Toba super-eruption in South Asia : The cooling effects of historic volcanic eruptions on world climate are well known but the impacts of even bigger prehistoric eruptions are still shrouded in mystery.

If you feel the earth move under your feet and you wonder if there's been an earthquake, there's a seismograph at Southern Oregon University that can tell you what really happened.

Two for the Road: Mortensen and Smit-McPhee. Weinstein Company The Road Running time 119 minutes Written by Joe Penhall Directed by John Hillcoat Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce Welcome to the apocalypse.

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, researchers report.

BOGOTA: A volcanic eruption has eased enough to allow a local airport to open, but thousands of people are staying clear of Colombia's most active volcano as more activity is feared, authorities warned on Sunday.

With a few cosmetic tweaks, Mount St. Helens provided the right devastation to serve as a backdrop for scenes in John Hillcoat's film "The Road." Production crews spent a day in July 2008 filming scenes from the post-apocalypse movie on the east side of the Mount St.

A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

After lying dormant for 4,000 years, one of Europe's most powerful volcanoes, Campi Flegrei near Naples, is showing signs of life.

Although carbonatite magmatism has occurred throughout Earth's history, Oldoinyo Lengai, in Tanzania, is the only currently active volcano producing these exotic rocks1.

PLANE HITS LAVA ROCK: A plane in the Congo overshot a runway and hit remnants of a 2002 volcanic eruption, injuring 20 people.

The nuee ardente is a French meaning "glowing cloud." this is the kind of cloud that comes from a violent volcanic eruption.

Nov 12, 2009 Volcano is a very famous movie because it happened to come out two months after Dante's Peak , which was also about a volcano but which, lucky for the makers of Volcano , hadn't used the word "volcano" in its title.