Volcanic Eruption News

Almost 100 years after the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is still a moonscape of ash and volcanic rock, without a tree or shrub in sight.

The volcano island Sakurajima has had about 400 explosive eruptions so far this year, the most in 24 years, a local observatory said Friday, warning that activity might pick up.

Two areas have been nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii Natural Area Reserves System : 'Ilio Point on Moloka'i and a parcel next to the existing Kahauale'a Natural Area Reserve on Hawai'i. Please attend the public hearings next week and/or submit written testimony in support of these additions.

Africa accounts for only 4 percent of the world's air traffic but nearly a third of the world's air disasters occur on the continent, a top aviation official said, and the dismal situation has prompted aviation officials to decide to tighten safety standards and collaborate on crash investigations.

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By Rhaydz B. Barcia, Correspondent LEGAZPI CITY: The resident volcanologist in Bicol has warned that Mayon Volcano may erupt anytime as indicated by its bulging edifice and other signs of abnormalities, such as volcanic quakes, sulfur gas emissions, lava dome at the crater rim, crater glow and ash explosion.

With two volcanoes threatening to erupt in the days ahead, Colombian coffee farmers have been told they may have to evacuate despite the fact that so far the volcanic ash emissions have done nothing but nourish their fields.

Datun Mountain located in the north of Taipei City is an almost dormant volcano and the possibility of it erupting again is very low, an official with the Central Geological Survey under the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.

Sheveluch Volcano Erupts On October 12, 2004, a plume of ash streamed to the southwest from the Sheveluch Volcano on Russiaa TMs Kamchatka Peninsula.

Scientists from several countries have confirmed that a 35-mile-long rift in the desert in Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean, according to LiveScience .

Moving Image Archive > NASA Images > Long Dormant Volcano Shows Signs of Life Long Dormant Volcano Shows Signs of Life The Chiliques volcano, which sits in northern Chile and hasna t erupted in at least 10,000 years, is now showing signs of life.

The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and probably other coastal sites, a team of scientists has found.

A volcano in Taipei erupted much more recently than was formerly believed, researchers at the Academia Sinica have found.

OFFICIALS in southern Colombia have issued a code orange alert for the newly-active Galeras volcano which they said could erupt in a matter of days or weeks, according to the state-run Geological and Mining Institute.

One of the main temple areas in the ruins of Pompeii stands sharply outlined against the dark mass of Mount Vesuvius in the background.

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VOLCANO >> Civil Defense officials on the Big Island believe the trailhead of the Kalapana viewing area is safe from a tongue of lava from erupting Kilauea volcano.

In October, the hydraulic benthic interactive sampler HyBIS maintained by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton made ten dives over the Casablanca Seamount, a four-kilometre high seamount located some 300 miles west of Morocco.

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A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.