Some fault systems in the world are well known for their destructive potential. Examples are Turkey’s North Anatolian fault and California’s San Andreas. In both cases, large events in the ...
Whirlwinds come in variations. The weaker category is known as dust devils, and the range extends to full-blown tornadoes – and even hurricanes can in some ways be seen as an outsized members.
A tour of Io’s Prometheus lava flow: when Galileo spacecraft captured hot flowing pahoehoe breakouts
After writing two Io articles I return to Io again my favourite moon, looking at one single lava flow field. But read Alberts and my two other Io posts first. Jupiter’s moon Io is the most ...
The Southern Peninsula (Suðurnes) is the western part of the Reykjanes Peninsula; the border is drawn to exclude Reykjavik and its suburbs. Suðurnes is the first point of call for most visitors to ...
This, of course, is our annual April-1 news story, not all aspects of which are equally reliable. The picture of an unshaped lava mount is a hornito from the Mount Ulu eruption. Indeed, they can form ...
America came late. Humanity had come from Africa, and spread out over Eurasia. This happened mainly during the ice age, when lower sea levels allowed walking migration where previously a significant ...
Iwo Jima is famous. The battle between the US and Japanese forces are well remembered – by both sides. Before the war, about 1000 people lived here. After the war, none. There is a military base only.
A repost from 2016, written by Henrik and part of our series on volcanoes of the American west. There is enough there to make any nation proud! This follows on from the post on Mount Shasta and on ...
It came as a shock – quite literally. It shouldn’t have, because a recent paper had predicted that the area was preparing for a large earthquake. On 29 July, at 23:25 UTC, the 5 th largest earthquake ...
On 15 July, a video of an explosive eruption of Erta Ale (Afar Region, Ethiopia) volcano was briefly discussed in the comment section. It was a small ash plume emerging from the summit of the ...
It seemed like yesterday, the day I first discovered volcanic winter while conducting research on the infamous 1993 “storm of the century,” and some passing weather enthusiast had brought up Pinatubo ...
Volcanic activity in North America is surprisingly infrequent. In spite of there being no less than 255 volcanoes or volcanic features such as maars or volcanic fields listed for California (20), ...
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