Busy today with scouting out some field location for the class I'll be teaching this fall. Here's this week's USGS/SI Weekly Volcano Report. The report is a little more eventful than last week's, so enjoy!
Kliuchevskoi Volcano in Kamchatka, taken summer of 2009 by Theresa Kayzar.
Highlights include:
- Three volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula are currently producing ash plumes: Kliuchevskoi, Koryaksky and Shiveluch. Shiveluch has been having the most intense eruptions, but the former two are both producing ash-and-steam plumes that reach over 3 km / 10,000 feet.
- Talang in Indonesia saws its warning level raised from 2 to 3, with a 3-km exclusion zone set to prevent tourists from getting too close.
- Minor amounts of ash were produced by Popocatépetl, near Mexico City.
- It seems that Pagan in the Mariana Islands had a brief eruption, as satellite observations detected a 2-hour-long "thermal anomaly" last week.
- Reventador in Ecuador produced a new lava flow that was accompanied by seismic tremors, volcanic bombs and ash plumes.
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Maybe I should just apologize right here and now for that title, but dang, I liked it.
Anyway, I've seen a lot of plume images cross my browser/inbox over the last day, so I thought I'd post a few of them.
Your weekly dose of volcanic activity from the USGS/SI. (a little late thanks to an exciting day of column chemistry).
Some highlights include:
Quick hit post from beautiful Walnut, Iowa, but this was too interesting to pass up...
Bright plume spotted on Venus, image taken by the ESA Venus Express.
All the volcano news that is fit to print, all thanks to the USGS/Smithsonian GVP!
Theresa Kayzar took a great picture of that volcano.
I am guessing she was high up on another volcano - yet below the tree line. The clouds curling around the volcano near ground level - it just makes for a great, very unique volcano picture.
[OT] So which volcano won the Volcano Profile Poll?
I voted Karymsky because the Kamchatcka peninsula looks so beautiful - like in that photo above. :)
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