Tag: california

• Volcanic or not volcanic: The "steaming hills" of Santa Barbara are not volcanic

  9 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  There was some news over the weekend about steaming hills on the Pacific coast of California near Santa Barbara. Now, that might seem very surprising to many as there aren't any active volcanoes on the coast of California, especially near the Los Angeles basin - however, not all steam coming from ... Read More

• Visiting Snowy Lassen Peak in July 2011

  10 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  If we heard anything this winter from Eruptions readers in California like Diane, it was that it was snowy in the mountains. Very snowy. We're talking 50-100% more than usual sorts of snow levels. This, it turns out, was more than just rumor as the trip I took to Lassen Volcanic National Park was ... Read More

• The non-eruption at Pisgah Crater: The dangers of untrained interpretation of real-time data

  10 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  By now, many of you have heard/read about the supposed eruption at Pisgah Crater in California. It was all over Youtube (you know, a great source for reliable scientific information) and various other conspiracy-related websites. However, the main problem with these stories is there was no eruption ... Read More

• Eruptions Summer Schedule, Part 2

  11 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Well, now that we're in mid-July, Eruptions will be going on autopilot for a while as I start 2 weeks of field and labwork in California. My trip will involve collecting some Triassic-Jurassic rhyolites from Mineral King, extracting some zircon from those rhyolites to analyze them for composition ... Read More

• Mystery Volcano Photo #34

  about 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  I am somewhat dragging this week - I think it is the exhaustion that leads into spring break - so today's we'll have a Mystery Volcano Photo. Our last installment, MVP #33, was Cold Boiling Lake (top left) near Lassen Peak in California. The standings have been updated to reflect the winner of that ... Read More

• Using magma as a power source? Not as simple as it seems.

  over 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  If you remember back a few years ago, I mentioned that my officemate, Dr. Naomi Marks, and her graduate advisors at UC Davis at the time, Dr. Peter Schiffman and Robert Zierenberg, along with other colleagues, drilled into an active magma chamber in Iceland. Now, rather than hitting basaltic lava ... Read More

• MVP #33 Revealed: Cold Boiling Lake, California

  over 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Today is mostly reserved for finishing the edits to the paper I have in review, so I thought I'd provide the answer to MVP #33 (top left). There is some other volcano-related events on going, in particular that evacuations orders have been issued near Kirishima, not due to the active eruption but ... Read More

• Eruptions Summer Schedule

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Mineral King valley in California. Well, we are in the peak of the summer, so Eruptions will be running a bit of summer schedule while I'm off away from the interweb tubes. First off, from July 11-20, I'll be off in the mountains, doing some much-needed fieldwork with my (first) undergraduate ... Read More

• Politics, California and serpentine

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Serpentine (as known as serpentinite), the current (and potentially soon-to-be ex-) state rock of California. This does not have a direct connection to volcanoes, but it sure is about geology and the science in the news. State Senator Gloria Romero of California has sponsored a bill to change ... Read More

• Girls like swarms of things, right? Updates on the Yellowstone and Salton Buttes earthquakes

  over 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Outcrops of Obsidian Butte, California, near the Salton Sea. A brief update on the two earthquake swarms making news right now: Yellowstone The earthquake swarm at Yellowstone is still rumbling along, reaching over 1,000 earthquakes measured over the last week. However, the swarm has begun ... Read More