Tag: peru

• Climate, volcanism and the Andes

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  The northern Chilean and southern Peruvian Andes are full of volcanoes that look stunning - I mean, jaw-dropping details of volcanism litter the landscape. The reason for this is two fold: (1) there is an awful lot of volcanism in the northern Chilean/southern Peruvian Andes (as known as the ... Read More

• Tsunamis, climate, seamounts and impending disaster ... !

  over 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  There have been a number of articles floating around the popular press for the last week that I thought I would touch on briefly ... always fun to decipher the real news from the hype. Active fumaroles on Datun Mountain in Taipei. An article out of the Taipei Times suggests that the city of ... Read More

• SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 7/1-7/2009

  almost 3 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  All the volcano news that is fit to print, all thanks to the USGS/Smithsonian GVP! Highlights (not include Manda Hararo, Kilauea and Mayon) include San Miguel in El Salvador has been experiencing increased seismicity. The last time the volcano erupted was in 2002. A pilot spotted a ~10,000 ... Read More

• SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 6/10-16/2009

  almost 3 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Your weekly dose of volcano news brought you by the Smithsonian Institute GVP and the USGS. This week's highlights (not counting Sarychev Peak and Turrialba) include: 13,000 foot / 4 km ash plumes from Rinjani in Indonesia. This is part of the continuing eruption there. The alert level was ... Read More

• Wednesday Whatzits

  almost 3 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  You'll have to excuse the curtness of this post. An bad hop in softball will do that to you. Here's some news: Mt. Dempo in Indonesia Xinhua offers some nice pictures of the current activity going on at the summit crater at Nyiragongo in the Congo. Note the partially-crusted-over lava lake in ... Read More

• SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 5/13-19/2009

  about 3 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  A week's worth of volcano news in one sitting, thanks to the USGS and Smithsonian Inst.'s Global Volcanism Program. Thanks again, Sally Kuhn Sennert for putting it together! This week's highlights include: Small ash column spotted at Manam, Papua New Guinea. We talked about Manam not too ... Read More

• El Misti threatens 100,000 people

  about 3 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  El Misti in Peru, as seen from Arequipa. As I like to remind people concerning volcanic hazards, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure. This is not to imply we can prevent volcanic hazards from affecting us, but rather that proper mitigation in the form of monitoring, planning ... Read More

• Ubinas, Peru

  about 4 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  There are, indeed, other volcanoes erupting right now worldwide other than Chaiten. Of course, when you have an eruption like Chaiten going on, it is hard to pay attention to other eruptions. Ubinas, Peru Ubinas, in Peru, has been having intermittent ash eruptions for the past few months ... Read More