Tag: china

• Friday Flotsam: Calm in the Philippines, Baekdu monitoring, Iceland blame and the latest GVP report

  about 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Another week has blown by … and I haven't had a lot of new volcano news (beyond the earthquakes at Krísuvík) to report this week - just some images and books. I'll try to round up some of the news of actual volcanic activity (or related events) I've run across this week: Philippines: Things have ... Read More

• 2010: Volcanic Year in Review

  over 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  We've found out the winner of 2010 Pliny for volcanic event of the year yesterday, so now let's look back at the entire year in volcanic activity. It was a busy year, both for the usual suspects and some volcanoes that erupted seemingly out of the blue. Here we go, the 2010 Volcanic Year in ... Read More

• Wednesday Whatzits: Merapi from space and the fear of Chengbaishen/Baekdu caldera

  over 1 year ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Well, things got busy enough yesterday that the post I was hoping to write just never materialized. Not only did I have the useful academic load, but I also gave a talk on Iceland over at OSU-Newark to the geology club there (which is apparently all of 4 weeks old) - it was a nice talk with a good ... Read More

• Friday Flotsam: All quiet in North Korea, what to watch for at Katla and the Kilauea lava lake

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Quick hits to wrap up the week: Looking into a skylight at Kilauea. Image taken July 8, 2010, courtesy of HVO/USGS. Following up some news about Changbaishan/Changbai caldera in North Korea, Yang Qingfu, director of earthquake and volcano analysis and forecast center with the seismology ... Read More

• Friday Flotsam: Plume images and a restless (?) North Korean volcano

  almost 2 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  This week went fast, didn't it? The Baekdu caldera along the North Korean/Chinese border. The NASA Earth Observatory have been giving us a steady diet of volcanic plumes over the last week, including PNG's Ulawun, Russia's Sarychev Peak (a very faint plume), both an ASTER and Terra image of ... Read More

• Friday Fungoes

  almost 3 years ago

  Erik Klemetti in Eruptions

  Here's some news bits for all you volcanophiles. Enjoy the weekend! Ubinas in Peru steaming away in June 2007. Image courtesy of Eruptions reader Mike Lyvers. There has been a lot of press lately on the theory that a large eruption from an ancient volcanic field in China (the 260-million ... Read More