The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

Rainbow’s end It is an amazing and powerful image. The wide lava fountain in the caldera like a wall flower in full bloom, with the cloud of volcano seeds above, the lava flowing from the bleeding ...

It seemed to come out of nowhere. In the midst of a quiet interlude, after the hugely damaging La Palma had ended, when the hugely touristic eruption at Fagradalsfjall failed to re-appear, and the ...

Super-eruptions are rare. That is probably a good thing, even for Tallis. Too many things can go wrong for us in a supereruption. If you need a reminder, a super-eruption is often defined as a VEI-8, ...

People mellow with age. (At least, most of us do.) The emotions of youth become less all-important and less demanding of our attention. Young people feel that every perceived slight needs addressing.

My hypothesis has nothing to do with nucleation, though. My understanding is that major hurricanes peak in the second half of SCs, see (note the secondary y-axis is inverted, more is down, “grandes ...

Humans have always had some fascination with rankings, some of the most popular videos and articles on the internet have dealt with comparisons and rankings. However, this doesn’t mean that it is just ...

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This page contains useful links and graphics for the current notable event. The following is for mbl.is cameras, with a Thorbjorn focus March 2024 cams, MBL RUV operates several camera: March 2024 … ...

This led to a forecast from the Icelandic authorities that the eruption would last for years. I did not have any large opinion against this assumption of a steady state eruption more than that it ...

This is a re-post of an article by Carl, written long before (in impatient volcaholic time-scales) fellow giant Bárðarbunga’s eruption. Iceland holds five volcanoes that in historical time have had ...