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Geotimes October 2004 Sever, Pratt & Libick |
Mount St. Helens Activity Updates Updates on Mt. St. Helens activity from October 1 to October 14. |
Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever |
Mount St. Helens Alert Level Lowered On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey lowered the alert level for Mount St. Helens in Washington from a Level 3 Volcano Alert to a Level 2 Volcano Advisory. |
Geotimes October 2004 Pratt & Lubick |
Mount St. Helens Could Erupt in Days to Months In the next few days to a month, there's a 70 percent chance that a small to moderate eruption event will happen at Mount St. Helens, site of the violent and deadly eruption of May 18, 1980. |
Geotimes May 2004 Megan Sever |
Today's Volcano Risks Active volcanoes pose a threat to commercial aircraft, engendering course diversions around potential danger spots. |
Geotimes November 2004 |
Mount St. Helens Erupts in Activity Although earthquake activity leveled off early in October, scientists warn that eruptions of steam and ash are still likely in the coming weeks. |
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Indonesian Volcano Ready to Erupt Spewing hot clouds of gas and bulging with lava, Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, has rumbled to life, and a full-scale eruption is imminent, local officials warn. |
Insurance & Technology March 24, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Alaska's Mount Redoubt Erupts; Insurers Stand By Several eruptions have begun to rain ash on Alaska's Susitna Valley, prompting an ash advisory from the National Weather Service and stepped-up preparations by Zurich/Farmers. |
Geotimes October 2004 |
Geophenomena An Ashen Threat to Aviation Safety... Volcano Refuge Ends... |
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever |
Ecuadorian Volcano Erupts, Kills 5 Tungurahua, one of Ecuador's "big three" volcanoes, once again ramped up its eruption, triggering emergency evacuations. At least five people were killed, many have been injured, and at least another 60 people are missing from villages that were destroyed by the eruption. |
Insurance & Technology February 9, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell |
Zurich, Farmers Warn Customers of Possible Volcanic Eruption Insurance carriers urge Alaskan customers to implement business continuity plans to prepare for the possible eruption of Mount Redoubt. |
Science News October 9, 2004 |
Eye on Mount St. Helens A link to images of Mt. St. Helens taken by the Johnston Ridge Observatory's VolcanoCam. |
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Mayon Volcano Eruption Slows Fewer seismic events and lessened ground deformation indicate that the ongoing eruption of Mayon Volcano, the Philippines' most active volcano, is finally slowing down. |
Geotimes June 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Mexican Volcano Fires up Geologists fear the recent activity at the Volcan de Colima in Mexico is only the beginning of a larger event to come. The people surrounding Colima could have quite a dangerous situation on their hands. |
Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Crystals Heat up Volcanic Eruptions Key pressure and temperature information preserved inside tiny bubbles in lava is causing scientists to rethink previous assumptions about how magma behaves, and what might trigger eruptions. |
Geotimes July 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Monitoring the Most Dangerous U.S. Volcanoes An assessment of the risks and hazards associated with volcanoes has led U.S. researchers to suggest a plan of action for avoiding future disasters, including threats to airplanes and populations living around these features. |
Outside February 2005 Mark Sundeen |
Eruptus Interruptus Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Thar she... might blow! When Mount St. Helens threatened to go erupt again, disaster groupies rushed to the crater--and hoped for the worst. |
High on Adventure April 2008 Vicki Andersen |
Creation of the cascade mountains The 700-mile stretch of playground known as the Cascade Mountain range is comprised of more than a dozen major peaks. |
Geotimes July 2004 Megan Sever |
Volcanic Avalanches New research suggests that shallow groundwater systems on volcanoes could explain deep edifice collapses. |
Geotimes May 2006 Megan Sever |
Fleeing Vesuvius A picture is worth more than a thousand words in the case of what some newly uncovered footprints in Vesuvian ash are telling researchers about the hazards that Italy's most notorious volcano might pose in the future. |
Geotimes November 2007 Feldman & Tilling |
Danger Lurks Deep: The Human Impact of Volcanoes Volcanic eruptions occur infrequently, yet have the potential to unleash some of the most destructive forces on Earth. |
Popular Mechanics February 4, 2009 Douglas Fox |
Redoubt Volcano's Rumblings Threaten The World's Third Largest Air Cargo Hub Twenty years ago KLM flight 867 made an emergency landing after encountering Volcano Redoubt's ash. With recent rumblings from the ominous volcano, can vulcanologists prevent future Redoubt-caused flight interference? |
Chemistry World May 27, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Getting to grips with volcanic ash As the disruption to air travel caused by the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland subsides, researchers are taking a close look at volcanic ash to try to understand how hazardous it is to both aircraft engines and human health. |
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Indonesian Quake Linked to Volcanic Activity? A powerful earthquake rocked through Indonesia's district of Bantul early Saturday morning, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. The quake could spell trouble for nearby Mount Merapi volcano, now on high alert for eruption. |
Geotimes April 2004 Pinsker & Sever |
Paths of Destruction: The Hidden Threat at Mount Rainier Large mudflows called lahars, can occur without warning -- even in the absence of a significant eruptive event. Orting residents face a one in seven chance that a lahar will occur in their lifetimes... On Nov. 13, 1985, a deadly lahar occurred in Columbia, killing more than 23,000 people... |
Smithsonian February 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Volcanic Lightning As sparks flew during the eruption of Mount St. Augustine in Alaska last year, scientists were able to make some new discoveries |
Geotimes April 2004 Ewert & Harpel |
In Harm's Way: Population and Volcanic Risk Knowing the number of people potentially at risk from volcanic activity allows non-volcanologists and emergency managers to gauge the potential adverse impact of volcanic unrest and plan accordingly. |
Geotimes November 2007 Toulkeridis et al. |
When Volcanoes Threaten, Scientists Warn After multiple false alarms of volcanoes erupting, people may start to doubt the credibility of the alarms and not listen to them. Scientists need to better predict and communicate the dangers arising from living in the shadow of volcanoes. |
Geotimes June 2004 Megan Sever |
Indonesian Volcanoes Erupt On Tuesday, two volcanoes erupted to life in Indonesia, killing at least two people, injuring others and forcing the evacuation of thousands. |
Geotimes April 2005 Megan Sever |
Vesuvius' Next Eruption Volcanologists are reconstructing the volcano's past to better predict just what might happen when it blows its top again. |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Natural Hazards Drilling a fault... Mount St. Helens awakens... Reviewing Sumatra... SAFOD crosses the fault... |
Geotimes June 2005 Jake Lowenstern |
Truth, Fiction and Everything in Between at Yellowstone The Yellowstone caldera is a volcano, and it almost certainly will erupt again someday. It's possible, though unlikely, that future eruptions could reach the magnitude of Yellowstone's three largest explosive eruptions, 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago. |
Outside January 2008 Kevin Krajick |
Joe Blow Around the planet, hundreds of sleeping volcanoes could wake up with a bang at any moment. Volcanologist Chris Newhall is listening. |
Geotimes June 2004 Megan Sever |
Hazards Roundup: Iran and Kilauea In the past week, Earth has shaken with more than 50 earthquakes and nearly 20 volcanic eruptions. Nature's forces are at work around us. |
AskMen.com Harry Marks |
Top 10: Volcanoes Visit a volcanoe during your next vacation. |
Geotimes January 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Tonga's Newest Island A new island was born in the South Pacific Ocean in August. The surprised crew of the yacht Maiken bore witness to the island's birth during the eruption of a formerly submarine volcano, called Home Reef, that has now breached the ocean's surface. |
Salon.com April 11, 2001 Laura Miller |
Volcano wars Nine scientists met grisly deaths in a 1993 eruption in Colombia, but the battle over who was to blame rages on... |
AskMen.com |
Don't Be A Hero Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt. |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Peter Coy |
Airlines: Planning for Volcanic Ash Earlier successes in dealing with ash had made the airline carriers complacent this time around. |
Geotimes June 2004 Megan Sever |
The Infrasound Renaissance We are just at the christening stage of infrasound, where we were with seismic technology 30 years ago. This technology has endless possibilities for teaching us about the world. |
Smithsonian December 2006 Laura Helmuth |
Antarctica Erupts! A trip to Mount Erebus yields a rare, close-up look at one of the world's weirdest geological marvels. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Glenn Zorpette |
Christian Antenor-Habazac: Under The Volcano This technical manager in Guadeloupe is responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of the radio-based sensor networks that monitor the region's seismicity that would give officials warning of impeding volcanic eruptions. |
Geotimes March 2005 Megan Sever |
Wilderness and Volcanology Camp As part of a two-week volcanology field school, both undergraduate and graduate students explore and learn about lava flows, pyroclastic flows, calderas, fumaroles and crater lakes while learning how to travel and do fieldwork in the wilderness. |
Chemistry World May 24, 2012 Jon Evans |
Can magma crystals predict eruptions? Mineral crystals blasted out from volcanoes can provide a window into the powerful processes going on inside those volcanoes, say UK and German earth scientists. |
Geotimes March 2005 Jay Chapman |
Hiking Nicaragua's Volcanoes Day trips from the major cities make it possible to see Nicaragua's best geologic features -- its volcanoes -- which are evenly spaced across the countryside. |
Geotimes October 2003 |
Geophenomena New addition to the Aleutian family... Yellowstone geysers heat up... First dead zone forecast... etc. |
Geotimes March 2004 Nakada & Eichelberger |
Looking Into a Volcano: Drilling Unzen Geologists have long wanted to peer inside a volcano. Although we have good evidence from extinct and eroded volcanoes of their inner structure, we know little about the conditions in and near active volcanic conduits. |
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman |
Tsunami Story Strikes Again Mega-tsunamis are not nearly as frequent as the news stories, and the likelihood of an event is relatively low. Continued debate among scientists, however, keeps the stories in the news and heightens the perceived threat. |
Geotimes September 2007 Erin Wayman |
Ancient Humans Dodged Super-Eruption? The Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago -- much more destructive than the Mount St. Helens eruption -- may have drastically altered Earth's climate. New research suggests humans were flexible enough to survive these changes. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2010 Prachi Patel |
Dream Jobs 2010: Ronald Thomas, Engineer Versus the Volcano Ronald Thomas tracks the weird and vivid bursts of lightning that accompany erupting volcanoes |
Real Travel Adventures November 2008 David C. Terr |
My Travel Adventures in Washington State From its spectacular volcanoes to its thick green forests and exciting cities, Washington has a great deal to offer. |