A repost from 2016, written by Henrik and part of our series on volcanoes of the American west. There is enough there to make any nation proud! This follows on from the post on Mount Shasta and on ...

It came as a shock – quite literally. It shouldn’t have, because a recent paper had predicted that the area was preparing for a large earthquake. On 29 July, at 23:25 UTC, the 5th largest ...

On 15 July, a video of an explosive eruption of Erta Ale (Afar Region, Ethiopia) volcano was briefly discussed in the comment section. It was a small ash plume emerging from the summit of the ...

Before we move on to have a look of the geological history of Shasta, it is worth noticing that because of the meteorological conditions, quite often a difference of 60C or more between the valley to ...

A top-secret development on Mount Rainier came out in the open this morning. There was widespread surprise and excitement when people in Tacoma and Seattle saw a rocket launched from the summit of the ...

The Toba eruption was twice as as Atitlan. But it produced a similar amount of sulphate in the ice cores. VEI is not everything. Climate impact With these estimates, the amount of sulphur produced by ...

The Afar Triangle The double-booked land is also known as the Afar Triangle, a low-lying region wedged into the Ethiopian Plateau. The region is not for the intrepid. The name is synonymous with ...

Another Holocene eruption happened on the valley floor, 20 km to the south of Dofen, more or less where the current dike is happening. A dike rose under the sediments filling the rift, but it wasn’t ...

Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts quite regularly, on average about once a decade. These eruptions can last a long time: 6 months is not unusual and the 1921 eruption lasted almost a full year. On the VEI ...

A trivia question: can you name the largest country without an active volcano? Here ‘active’ includes ‘dormant’: it is about volcanoes that have access to live magma and could in principle erupt, even ...

The Tasman rift gave rise to a new phase of volcanism. Most of this ended up on the inaccessible, submerged Lord Howe Rise. However, Australia kept some basalt flows and dikes, which are visible ...

This page contains useful links and graphics for the current notable event. The following is for mbl.is cameras, with a Thorbjorn focus March 2024 cams, MBL RUV operates several camera: March 2024 … ...