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A little less than 100 years ago, Novarupta, a volcano in Alaska, produced what is believed to be the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. “People in Juneau, Alaska, about 750 miles from the volcano, heard the sound of the blast – over one hour after it occurred.”
Tags: alaska, astronomy, earth sciences, earthquakes, geology-news, Geology.com, Jobs, marcellus-shale, pennsylvania, plate-tectonics, redoubt-volcano, virginia, volcanoesGunung Bromo (Mount Bromo) is a small but active volcano on the Indonesian island of Java. Government volcanolgists have placed Bromo at the highest level of eruption alert.
Tags: afghanistan, australia, earth, environment, geology, geology-news, Geology.com, indonesian, Jobs, pennsylvania, redoubt-volcano, satellite images, volcanoWill natural gas companies shut-in some of their wells in response to low gas prices ? A Reuters article reports that Exxon does not plan to shut in the former XTO Energy wells but ConocoPhillips has shut-in some wells. There are a number of reasons why some companies do not shut-in wells. These include: the possibility of even lower prices in the future, difficulty restarting the well and obtaining original production levels, long-term supply agreements and more. For more details see the “ Industry and Market Structure ” page of NaturalGas.org (fifth paragraph from the bottom).
Tags: ads-by-google, earthquakes, energy, europe, florida, geology, geology-news, Geology.com, natural gas, oil and gas, pennsylvania, redoubt-volcano, satellite images“A massive eruption of Montserrat’s Soufrière Hills Volcano covered large portions of the island in debris. The eruption was triggered by a collapse of Soufrière Hills’ summit lava dome on February 11, 2010. Pyroclastic flows raced down the northern flank of the volcano, leveling trees and destroying buildings in the village of Harris, abandoned after
Tags: ads-by-google, africa, alaska, geophysics, marcellus-shale, michigan, redoubt-volcano, soufriere-hills, united-states, volcano, volcanoesThe PhotoVolcanica website has an interesting page that presents photos, maps and images of Sakurajima Volcano and its potential impact on surrounding communities – over 400 eruptions were reported in 2009.
Tags: ads-by-google, africa, alaska, earth, Geology.com, geophysics, japan, marcellus-shale, mexico, michigan, natural hazards, pennsylvania, philippines, redoubt-volcano, united-statesThe city center of Arequipa, Peru is only 11 miles away from the summit of El Misti.
Tags: ads-by-google, alaska, earth, europe, geophysics, Jobs, michigan, natural hazards, redoubt-volcano, south america, united-states, virginia, volcanoA previously unknown volcanic eruption in 1809 kicked off the coldest decade in the past 500 years. This eruption was larger than the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo and was followed in 1815 by the eruption of Tambora. The result was a global lowering of temperature.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Geologycom/~4/LX-CME_i5sg” height=”1″ width=”1″/
Tags: ads-by-google, antarctic, canada, earth, eruption, europe, florida, geology-news, Geology.com, mexico, philippines, redoubt-volcano, virginia, volcano, volcanoes#8220;Vesuvius is the only active volcano in mainland Europe, and has produced some of the continent’s largest volcanic eruptions. Vesuvius is most famous for the 79 AD eruption which destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.#8221; Quoted from the article by Jessica Ball.img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Geologycom/~4/YVeqBO2jUts” height=”1″ width=”1″/
Tags: ads-by-google, europe, geology-news, Geology.com, Jobs, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, mexico, mount-vesuvius, redoubt-volcano, virginia, volcanoScientists visited NW Rota-1 Volcano on the ocean floor near the island of Guam three years ago. They recently returned to find enormous numbers of shrimp, crab, limpets and barnacles growing on the flanks of the volcano
Tags: africa, canada, europe, florida, geology-news, Jobs, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, north, pennsylvania, redoubt-volcano, united-states, virginiaThis NASA astronaut photograph is one of the most spectacular volcanic eruption photos that appears on the web. It shows a recent eruption plume from Sarychev Volcano photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. In addition to the eruption plume punching through the cloud cover, a pyroclastic flow can be seen
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Spectacular Photo: Sarychev Eruption Plume