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December 31, 2008
Category: Volcano monitoring
Yellowstone looks to be keeping everyone on their toes as we ring in 2009. The earthquake swarm reported earlier this week is continuing, with multiple events between 2-3.5 on the Richter Scale. Again, the folks monitoring the caldera -...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 2:45 PM • 70 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
December 29, 2008
Category: Volcano monitoring
Some more information is coming out about the activity at Koryak (aka Koryaksky) in Kamchatka. Russian geologist Alexei Ozerov says that the activity at Koryak (note: the image in the article linked here appears to have nothing to do with Koryak)...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 8:02 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
2008 is almost finished and we've seen one of the few high-silica rhyolite eruptions in the past 100 years at Chaiten in Chile. Chaiten was definitely not high on the list of potential locations for a rhyolite eruption worldwide....
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 7:51 PM • 137 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2008
Category: Volcano monitoring
News is filtering in that Koryak (aka Koryaksky) Volcano in Kamchatka might be heading towards an explosive eruption. The details are scarce, but it seems that a breach on the northwest slopes of the volcano might cause an explosive...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 11:01 PM • 49 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
December 24, 2008
Category: Eruptions Blog
Well, the holidays (and its visitors) have derailed my blogging ability, so in that note, I will officially declare the Eruptions holiday until 12/30. Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) to all the Eruptions readers - and I just hit...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 10:51 PM • 23 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
December 17, 2008
Category: Yellowstone
Today was a lot of talking and posters. Talking mostly about all things concerning Taupo and Okataina volcanism in New Zealand. Posters ran the spectrum from learning some nifty new tricks to extract zircon crystals from a crushed rock to...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:19 AM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 16, 2008
Category: Volcano research
I was chatting with a fellow from AVO and he called the simultaneous eruptions of Kasatochi, Cleveland and Okmok a "once in a millennia" event. So, enjoy it! He also mentioned that the Kasatochi eruption released the most sulfur dioxide...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 1:43 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 14, 2008
Category: Chaiten
I don't know if the live-blogging AGU will work out, but we'll see. However, I did find out today that Chaiten was a compositionally zoned eruption. Good times!...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 11:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 11, 2008
Category: Volcanic hazards
When people think about volcanic mitigation, a lot of time is spent worrying about monitoring and science. There is nothing wrong with this as we need to know what the volcano has done in the past and what it...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 2:45 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
Sometimes I wonder if we know more about the fates of people who died in a volcanic eruption over 1800 years ago than we do about most people who died in any given eruption this year. Not that there...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 2:31 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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