Volcanoes

Residents flee after volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea

News 24
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:01 UTC

An ash cloud erupting from the Papua New Guinea's Mount Ulawun volcano.

Papua New Guinea's volatile Ulawun volcano erupted early on Tuesday, sending a column of red lava shooting up into the sky and forcing the evacuation of recently returned residents.

Mount Ulawun, situated on the remote Bismarck Archipelago chain, displaced between 7 000 and 13 000 people from their homes when it last erupted in June.

Seismic activity started at midday on Monday before the volcano erupted at about 04:30 on Tuesday, according to Rabaul Volcano Observatory assistant director Ima Itikarai.

"It was noiseless and in the dark just before dawn; the eruption was visible (with) a distinct shard (of) red incandescent glow shooting up less than 100m from the base," he told AFP.

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts again, 10 tremors in 24 hours

Trend News Agency
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:13 UTC

Mexican volcano Popocatepetl started to erupt on Monday, releasing gases and ash, the civil defence service of the Puebla state said, Trend reports citing Sputnik.

"The Popocatepetl volcano has awakened and releases water steam, gases and ash", the service said on its Twitter page.

The service registered over 10 tremors, seven explosions and 152 outbursts within the last 24 hours.

Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts leaving city 5 miles away 'covered' in ash

Chris Kitching
Mirror
Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:55 UTC

Ash began falling over Kagoshima within an hour of the eruption

One resident of Kagoshima was "completely covered with ash" after Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupted

Volcanic ash has rained down on a city after Japan's Sakurajima erupted and belched a massive column of ash two miles into the sky.

People in Kagoshima - five miles away from the volcano - posted photos on social media showing their ash-covered clothing or cars, and the particles falling in the streets.

One resident tweeted: "Sakurajima's ashes!!! Because I forgot my umbrella, I was completely covered with ash. The second photo is an ash-covered bag."

Sakurajima, of the most active volcanoes in the world, erupted at about 4pm local time.

Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser breaks yearly eruption record

WFTV Orlando
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:15 UTC

Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat geyser is breaking records with 34 eruptions so far this year as of early September.

The famous attraction is the world's tallest active geyser and has broken its own record for the most eruptions set last year at 32, according to the National Park Service, and there's still months to go before the end of the year.

Steamboat's eruptions are unpredictable, the Park Service said, and over the years have been sporadic, with active years in 1982 - 1983 after being dormant for 50 years, quiet years throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and other years of dormancy marked by a single eruption.

"One thing is known, Steamboat Geyser's future eruptions will continue to be unpredictable, officials said on the Park Service's website.

Comment: New thermal area discovered at Yellowstone supervolcano

Strong explosion at Sakurajima volcano, Japan

Volcano Time-Lapse
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:59 UTC

Sakurajima erupts

Sakurajima in Japan has been quiet for quite a while until today. An extremely large, long-lasting eruption. Lots of ash.

Orange alert as Villarrica volcano rumbles in southern Chile

RTE
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:17 UTC

Villarrica in Chile

Rumbling at Villarrica, one of South America's most active volcanoes, has been worrying residents and prompted authorities to declare an orange alert this week.

Authorities in the south of Chile are rehearsing evacuation plans amid concern that the volcano could potentially erupt within "days or weeks."

Villarrica, near the popular tourist resort of Pucon around 750km south of the capital Santiago, was upgraded to an orange alert after it began rumbling and hurling lava into the air late on Tuesday.

The orange alert by the National Geology and Mining Service (SERNAGEOMIN) implies a "significant" increase in activity.

Ubinas volcano in Peru erupts 3 times in a day

Novinite.com
Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:45 UTC

Ubinas volcano erupts

The most active volcano in Peru - Ubinas, erupted three times for a day. This happened yesterday, Wednesday, Sep 4. According to the local Institute of Geophysics, cited by AFP, the explosion produced an ash column that reached a height of about 2,500 meters above the top of the massif.

"Three new eruptions of the volcano have been registered, characterized by the disposal of solid and fine ash," Hernando Tavera, director of the Institute, told the agency.

Stromboli volcano in Italy erupts for 2nd time in a week

Sputnik
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:41 UTC

Stromboli volcano

The Stromboli volcano, located on an island of the same name in the Tyrrhenian Sea in the south of Italy, had erupted for the second time this week.

Island residents said that around 10:45 p.m. (20:45 GMT) on Friday, a strong explosion was heard, after which the volcano spewed a column of ash and dust. Two smaller blasts were heard later on the same day.

Lava is actively flowing down the volcano's western slope. Witnesses say the lava can be seen several miles away from the volcano.

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Fishy VEI-5 Shiveleuch eruption, too many excuses why it didn't happen

Adapt 2030
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:09 UTC

VAAC and the US volcano monitoring agencies stepped back from a 70,000 ash ejecta call from the Shiveleuch Volcano down to 23,000 feet. Fishy that, because the Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the most watched areas on the planet with infrared to look for launches of tiny underground projectiles, but an eruption is so misjudged by 3X. Then spaceweather.com comes our for two days with an article explaining why sunsets are purple for two stratospheric level eruptions, but don't look at Shiveluch, its the other two. Finally the error was blamed on conversion from English to Metric height measurements, even though these Asian / US agencies have been working together for 50+ years, but get this one eruption wrong.

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Powerful volcanic eruptions are creating purple skies

Sean Martin
The Express
Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:21 UTC

Two major eruptions this summer have caused a stunning atmospheric reaction which have left the sunsets looking purple in certain quarters of the globe. The first of two eruptions came on July 22 when the Raikoke volcano, located in the Kuril Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, erupted.

The volcano, which had remained dormant for more than a century before the latest explosion, blasted a mass of ash and volcanic debris ten miles into the sky, reaching a layer of the atmosphere known as the stratosphere.

Just under two weeks later, the Ulawun volcano in New Guinea erupted, sending ash nine miles into the sky and causing 15,000 people to evacuate.

Comment: Less than a week ago an eruption at Kamchatka volcano (Shiveluch) in Russia fired ash 70,000 ft (21.3 km) into the stratosphere.

Sulfuric gas from both of these eruptions reached the stratosphere, which is why skies in some parts of the world turned oddly purple as the Sun started to set.

This is because fine volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere cause blue light particles to scatter.

When the scattered blue particles combine with the normal red hue of a sunset, it makes an eerie purple glow.

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Volcanoes

Residents flee after volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupts again, 10 tremors in 24 hours

Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts leaving city 5 miles away 'covered' in ash

Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser breaks yearly eruption record

Strong explosion at Sakurajima volcano, Japan

Orange alert as Villarrica volcano rumbles in southern Chile

Ubinas volcano in Peru erupts 3 times in a day

Stromboli volcano in Italy erupts for 2nd time in a week

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Fishy VEI-5 Shiveleuch eruption, too many excuses why it didn't happen

Powerful volcanic eruptions are creating purple skies

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