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© Graham DawesThe Afar Rift in Ethiopia as seen from a helicopter.
The fractures appear eerily similar to seafloor spreading centers, the volcanic ridges that mark the boundaries between two pieces of oceanic crust. Along the ridges, lava bubbles up and new crust is created, slowly widening the ocean basin.
But a look deep beneath the Afar Rift reveals the birth announcements may be premature. "It's not as close to fully formed seafloor spreading as we thought," said Kathy Whaler, a geophysicist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Whaler and her colleagues have spotted 120 cubic miles (500 cubic kilometers) of magma sitting in the mantle under the Afar Rift. Hot liquids like magma like to rise, so the discovery is a conundrum.
"We didn't expect this, because magma wants to pop up like a cork in water; it's too buoyant compared to the surrounding medium in the mantle," Whaler told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.
© Sky NewsMount Sinabung spews ash and hot lava as it erupts near a mosque in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province. The volcano had been dormant for nearly 100 years.
Mount Sinabung, located in Karo Regency, spewed volcanic ash and small pebbles into the air, showering nearby villages, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
"The villagers voluntarily left their villages after the eruption," Mr.Nugroho said. He added there was no report of deaths nor serious damage.
He said local authorities, with the help of the armed forces and the police, have are helping the villagers who had to flee. Mount Sinabung last erupted in September 2010 after being dormant for around 100 years. Around 12,000 villagers were evacuated during the eruption three years ago.
"The characteristics of Mount Sinabung eruptions are relatively unknown because it was dormant for around 100 years before the 2010 eruptions," Mr. Nugroho noted.
Mount Sinabung's eruption is the latest in recent volcanic activity in Indonesia. Two volcanoes erupted in central Indonesia last month. Indonesia has many active volcanoes because its many islands are on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire.
According to Andina news agency, the area covered by the state of emergency are the Moquegua districts of Ubinas, Matalaque, Chojata, Omate, Coalaque, Ichuña, Lloque, Yunga, and the Arequipa district of San Juan de Tarucani.
Furthermore, Peru21 reports today that the village of Querapi will be permanently relocated within a year. Querapi, a small town populated by about 25 families, has been hit hard by the recent eruptions from Ubinas. As a short-term solution, regional authorities are planning on evacuating the residents of Querapi to a safe-zone before deciding on a permanent relocation plan.
© ReutersUbinas Volcano Erupting April 20, 2006
The mountain erupted two times on Monday, again on Tuesday and then two more times Wednesday, according to the news website Peru This Week.
Ubinas volcano is located in Peru's Moquenega region about 70 kilometers from the city of Arequipa.
© JMAVulcanian explosion from Sakurajima this morning.
© William SagerA 3D map of Tamu Massif, the world's biggest volcano.
Called the Tamu Massif, the enormous mound dwarfs the previous record holder, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, and is only 25 percent smaller than Olympus Mons on Mars, the biggest volcano in Earth's solar system, said William Sager, lead study author and a geologist at the University of Houston.
"We think this is a class of volcano that hasn't been recognized before," Sager said. "The slopes are very shallow. If you were standing on this thing, you would have a difficult time telling which way was downhill."
Tamu is 400 miles (650 kilometers) wide but only about 2.5 miles (4 km) tall. It erupted for a few million years during the early Cretaceous period, about 144 million years ago, and has been extinct since then, the researchers report.
On Saturday morning (Aug. 24), residents of Rome were startled to discover that a steaming vent, spitting out a steady stream of water and mud, had erupted from the ground near a runway at Rome's busy Fiumicino airport.
Geologists and engineers are investigating the vent to ensure that it's not a broken pipe or some other accident, according to VolcanoDiscovery. Assuming that it's not manmade, it could be a fumarole, a vent of steaming-hot hydrothermal water that erupts at the Earth's surface.
"There are a lot of hot springs in the area around Rome, so it might not be surprising that new vents could open," Erik Klemetti, assistant professor of geosciences at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, told LiveScience.
"Likely this doesn't lead to anything more than maybe a new hot spring, if it is related to the normal geothermal activity across the area," Klemetti said. "Once volcanologists can sample the gases being emitted, we might have a better idea of what the ultimate source of the vent might be."
Comment: "Likely"? "It might not be surprising"? From that we take it that their first reaction was surprise because they don't know what it is and that this doesn't usually happen in Rome!
Between this and all these sinkholes opening up the world over, fireballs in the sky and increased extreme weather events, clearly something strange is happening on, above and below this planet!