Tag: oregon

• Today: Live stream from Axial Seamount

  9 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  I wanted to get this news out quick because it is for today only. The Ocean Observatories Initiative Regional Scaled Nodes group is sending ROV ROPOS to Axial seamount today to set up some monitoring equipment and they are providing a direct link to the ROV - along with a video stream! So, you can ... Read More

• Wednesday Whatzits: Orange alert at Cleveland, more Italian eruptions, Kilauea's lava lakes and more!

  10 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Lots of pieces of volcano news I've missed reporting over the last week, so I thought I could try to round them all up. Alaska: A 40-meter lava dome/flow was spotted at the summit of Cleveland in the Aleutians. With this confirmation of new magma at the surface, AVO has raised the aviation alert ... Read More

• Mystery Volcano Photo #39

  11 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Considering it has become a staple when I have to be away from the blog, I thought it would be nice to post a new Mystery Volcano Photo. The last one, #38, was nailed by Dr. Boris Behncke (who else?) on the second guess as South Sister in Oregon. I took this picture on a flight from Seattle to ... Read More

• Speculating on the 2011 Nabro eruption in Eritrea

  11 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  The eruption of Nabro in Eritrea has been a bit of an enigma, mostly because the volcano is (a) so remote and (b) it's previous activity is mostly unknown. In fact, when the eruption was first identified by the Toulouse VAAC, it was mistakenly attributed to the nearby volcano Dubbi, mostly because ... Read More

• Mystery Volcano Photo #37

  about 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  I am buried in the final days of the spring semester (and academic year), so I thought it might be a good time to post a new Mystery Volcano Photo. If you remember, MVP #36 ended up being easier than I expected - Clear Lake in Oregon, a lake formed by a lava flow from Sand Mountain ~3,000  years ... Read More

• Additional monitoring proposed for Newberry Caldera in Oregon

  about 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  If you could pick as close to an anonymous volcano in the Pacific Northwest, you might be tempted to pick Newberry Caldera in Oregon (I might also take partial credit for picking Medicine Lake in California). Newberry is a caldera volcano (and National Volcanic Monument) surrounded by smaller ... Read More

• Tuesday Tidbits: Calmer Karangetang, explosive mid-ocean ridges and volcano images galore

  about 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  After yesterday's monster post about the prospects of drilling into the mantle (sorry, the petrologist side of me overpowered the volcanologist), today we catch up on some of the news: Indonesia: It seems that the eruptive activity at Karangetang has waned to the point where the alert status was ... Read More

• Dr. Adam Kent answers your questions about Mt. Hood (and more)

  over 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Afters months of waiting, I have finally been able to get my act together enough to post the answers to questions you posed to Dr. Adam Kent. If you remember back to the beginning of the fall, Dr. Kent and his colleagues published a paper in Nature Geosciences about the nature of magma mixing and ... Read More

• Wednesday Whatzits: Mixing it up at Hood, alert lowered at Taal and plumes over Vanuatu

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Mt. Hood in Oregon, taken August 2008. Image by Erik Klemetti. Click on the image to see a larger version. Quick news! I'm not going to go into too much depth right now about the recent study published in Nature Geoscience on Mt. Hood in Oregon - I plan to talk about it more in a few weeks ... Read More

• Eruptions Word of the Day: Tuya

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  The latest Eruptions Word of the Day is "Tuya". So, what is a tuya? This is a tuya: A tuya! Click on the image to see a larger version. Image by Erik Klemetti. Alright, well, that doesn't entirely help, does it? Lets look at the feature the arrow indicates. Some observations: (1 ... Read More