Here’s a repost from 2018 about using infrasound to study volcanoes. It’s timely because new research using this technique has revealed that Alaska’s Bogoslof Volcano,
Tag: volcano monitoring
South American Supervolcanoes: Cerro Galán
You might have heard that supereruptions are VEI 8 events, right at the top of the scale. Could there ever be a magnitude 9 eruption?
Guest Videos: Why Are There Volcanoes in South America?
The excellent visuals in this video show that the western coast of South America is a subduction zone, just like the coast of Sumatra where
Does Borneo have volcanoes?
[sound of crickets chirping] It’s surprisingly difficult to answer that question. In the above screencap of Indonesia’s online volcano monitoring graphic, Borneo (circled in white)
Guest Videos: Deception Island’s Penguins, Ghosts, and Eruptions
That’s a summer beach scene in Antarctica, taken on the shores of the ring-shaped caldera that is Deception Island. And here’s a video–too short, as
Popocatepetl Crater Overflight This Morning
This is also in the Popocatepetl updates (see link at top of page), but it’s awesome enough to share in a separate post, too. The
