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Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online One of the Philippines most active volcanoes roared to life early Tuesday sending a cloud of ash and rocks into the morning sky. Mount Mayon, which sits about 206 miles southeast of the capital of Manila, killed five people and injured several others during the brief eruption. Eduardo del Rosario of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) confirmed that the blast killed five and injured seven. The...
FEDERAL WAY, Wash., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) today announced its 2013 operating schedule for the Charles W. Bingham Forest Learning Center located inside the blast zone at Mount St. Helens. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120111/AQ34535LOGO) The center tells the story of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and the subsequent hand-planting of more than 18 million seedlings. Through interactive exhibits and displays...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists have compiled a database detailing around 2,000 major volcanic eruptions that occurred over the last 18 million years. The open access database of Large Magnitude Explosive Eruptions (LaMEVE) will be able to provide crucial information to scientists and others involved in volcano research. Volcanic eruptions have been known to cause disruptions in air traffic, impact climate, and alter surrounding landscapes. Gaining a...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In addition to being fairly unpredictable, volcanoes can eject a wide range of material, from mile-high plums of black ash to a deadly hail of fist-sized pumice. These ejections travel extremely fast and can reach internal temperatures between 750 to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The prevailing theory has been that the difference in particle size determined when bubbling magma deep below the volcano converts into a rising stream of gas and...
The early April earthquake of magnitude 8.6 that shook Sumatra was a grim reminder of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami that killed tens of thousands of people in 2004 and 2005. Now a new study, funded by the National Science Foundation, shows that the residents of that region are at risk from yet another potentially deadly natural phenomenon – major volcanic eruptions. Researchers from Oregon State University working with colleagues in Indonesia have documented six major...
Lee Rannals for RedOrbit.com Researchers have been able to capture the rise and collapse of an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean for the first time. The team studying Monowai volcano near Tonga has recorded large changes in height of the volcano in just two weeks. The researchers gathered images by sonar on a ship, unveiling new details about the submarine mountains. There are as many as 32,000 underwater mountains that have been identified around the world, and the majority...
NASA said on Tuesday that there is no evidence of a massive supervolcano erupting in 2012, despite what some may believe. A supervolcano refers to an explosive volcanic eruption that eject about ten thousand times the quantity of magma and ash that Mount St. Helens expelled in 1980. NASA said Earth's surface has preserved clues of many massive supervolcanoes through hollowed-out calderas-craters that can be as big as 60 miles across after a volcano collapses from emptying out its entire...
A 3-D model of a volcanic explosion, based on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, may enhance our understanding of how some volcanic explosions occur and help identify of blast zones for potentially dangerous locations, according to an international team of volcanologists."We took on the modeling of enormously complicated pyroclastic density currents, notably the classic, notorious May 1980 lateral blast that destroyed 500 square kilometers of forested terrain at...
When Mount St. Helens blew its top in 1980, it wasn't a surprise that it happened, but even today the extent of the damage is hard to fathom. The eruption knocked down 100-foot trees like matchsticks and killed just about everything in its path. There have been several smaller eruptions since then, but nothing like what happened in 1980.Evolutionary biologist and ecologist John Bishop knows Mount St. Helens well; he has been working on the mountain for 20 years. "It began with the...
A new study has found that a mixing of two different types of magma is the key to the historic eruptions of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain, and that eruptions often happen in a relatively short time "“ weeks or months "“ after this mixing occurs.This behavior is somewhat different than that of most other Cascade Range volcanoes, researchers said, including Mount Hood's nearby, more explosive neighbor, Mount St. Helens.The research is being reported this week in Nature Geoscience by...
