Tag: africa

• Quick update on the Nabro (Eritrea) and Puyehue-Cordon Caulle eruptions

  12 months ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  UPDATE (10 AM Eastern): Well, leave it to an eruption this week to not be simple. It appears that the eruption in Eritrea from not from Dubbi but rather from Nabro, an even more mysteries volcano. It is a composite volcano with no known historical eruption - in fact, very little is known about the ... Read More

• New images of activity in Africa: Nyiragongo and Dallol

  over 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  We haven't talked too much about volcanic activity in Africa lately, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening. I had a couple galleries of images come through my inbox in the last couple weeks that show some of the dynamic activity at two of the most active volcanic areas in Africa: Nyiragongo in ... Read More

• Thursday Throwdown: Stromboli's tiny bubbles, Hawaiian lava flow update and recovering from Eyjafjallajökull

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Lots of little pieces of news I've run across ... time to play a little catch up. Stromboli: A volcano after Don Ho's heart. Every once in a while, my RSS feeds will dredge up some articles from years gone by ... and this week there were two New York Times pieces that are a few years old ... Read More

• Mystery Volcano Photo #23

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  We'll try again with a finding a good Mystery Volcano Photo! The last MVP was Mt. Meru in Tanzania, submitted by Michael Dalton-Smith. Now, I thought this image was going to be a little harder than it turned out to be as the shot of Meru on Wikipedia is a very similar shot, but that happens ... Read More

• "Great" headlines attack!

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Africa is threatened by "scorching hot blobs of magma" according to the CSM. Nothing like some fabulous headlines to make your day. The first (courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor) Massive blob of scorching magma discovered under southern Africa Oh my! Yes, again, it seems that the ... Read More

• NASA Earth Observatory images of Cleveland (not the city) and Nyiragongo

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  The NASA Earth Observatory has been dazzling us with images from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption for months - but they have been dazzling us with volcanoes images for years! Here are two more images for those of you who love seeing volcanoes from above: Cleveland, Alaska As I mentioned earlier ... Read More

• No eruption at Mikeno in the Congo

  about 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Following up on a report earlier this week claiming that an eruption of Mikeno produced an avalanche that killed dozens, it appears that those reports were false. Current news claims that an overflowing river on Nyiragongo in the Congo ... Read More

• Thursday Throwdown: More volcano news than I can list here

  about 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  I'm still playing catch-up after my week in the desert, so I've seen a lot of articles I've wanted to mention ... but a certain other volcano has taken up a lot of my time. However, I will attempt to make amends for that now. By the way, would you believe Ubehebe Crater was closed? How do they ... Read More

• Volcano Profile: Erta Ale

  about 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  The latest in my Volcano Profiles series, this one on Erta Ale in Ethiopia. The summit crater at Erta Ale in 1994 Location: The Afar region of Ethiopia. Height: 613 m / 2,011 feet Tectonic setting: Erta Ale (meaning "smoking mountain") is part of the East African Rift, where the African ... Read More

• SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Report for 2/17-23/2010

  about 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  The flu has retreated and I'm getting back on track. Huzzah! I'll get back to the blog by posting this week's new USGS / Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcano Report. Looks like some interesting stuff in it ... Looks like there were some small eruptions from ... Read More