Latest Stratovolcanoes Stories
After lying dormant underneath a glacier since 2004, a volcano in Iceland began spewing steam, ash and smoke into the upper atmosphere on Sunday. Despite the impressive show, this eruption is less likely to endanger air traffic as a similar eruption last did last year. Closing the main airport in the country as a precaution, pilots were warned to steer clear of Iceland as areas close to the Grimsvotn (GREEMSH-votn) volcano were plunged into darkness. Scientists, however, explain that another...
No matter their size or shape, explosive volcanoes produce tremors at similar frequencies for minutes, days or weeks before they erupt. In the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at Yale University and the University of British Columbia (UBC) describe a model that explains this strange phenomenon "“ and may help forecast deadly eruptions.When such volcanoes erupt they can shoot hot ash up to 40 kilometers into the atmosphere and cause devastating destruction when the ash column...
Japan has established a one-mile barrier around a volcano on Mount Kirishima after it erupted scattering rocks and ash across the southern part of the country. The Meteorological Agency raised the volcanic alert to level 3 Thursday as ash continued to spew from Shinmoedake on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu. Residents in the area have been banned from going within a mile of the volcano following its worst eruption in 50 years. Agency volcanologist Sei Iijima said the eruption...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in their lives, hundreds of Tanzanian school children living in the country's remote northern region will be going home with photographs of themselves when the South African-based Memory Foundation visits the region next year. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/kef/47545/ (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101210/MM10820 ) The Memory...
The Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat erupted in 1995, and an international team of researchers has studied this volcano from land and sea since then to understand the workings of andesite volcanos more completely."To the extent that the Soufriere Hills Volcano is typical of andesitic dome building volcanoes, results from this research can be expected to apply more generally," said Barry Voight, professor emeritus of geosciences, Penn State.Voight and R. S. J. Sparks, the...
Twin volcanoes on Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted on Thursday, pumping massive ash clouds miles into the air, diverting flights and covering nearby towns in thick, heavy ash.The Klyuchevskaya Sopka, the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula and the highest active volcano in Eurasia, exploded along with the Shiveluch volcano 45 miles to the northeast, said officials with the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's Kamchatka branch.No injuries were reported, but flights...
VANCOUVER, Oct 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Kiska Metals Corporation ("Kiska" or the "Company") re ports that the Company has agreed to sell its Mexican subsidiary, M inera Geoinformatica, to Evrim Metals Corporation ("Evrim"). Minera Geoinformatica ("Minera") holds all nine of Kiska's Mexican properties and a geological database for Mexico and parts of the southern United States. Evrim will assume Kiska's Mexican offices and staff. In consideration,...
A volcano in western Indonesia that has been dormant for more than 400 years erupted for the second straight day Monday, blasting hot ash more than a mile into the air and forcing the evacuation of 30,000 people in the region. Many villagers living along the slopes of Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province wore masks as they packed up and headed to emergency shelters and churches, said Andi Arief, presidential advisor on disaster. Homes and crops around the area were covered in ash and the...
Authorities in Colombia were forced to order the evacuation of thousands of residents after the Galeras Volcano erupted on Wednesday, but only a few took heed and headed for shelters, according to a recent Reuters report. Galeras, located in the Colombian Andes near the border of Ecuador, spewed ash over neighboring towns, but so far no injuries or damages have been reported by authorities after the latest eruption. About 8,000 residents live in the danger zone, but many often refuse to leave...
Two French scientists are travelling to one of the remotest places on Earth, the Kamchatka peninsula, to piece together the complex life story of two volcanoes.Kamchatka is one of the most volcanically active places on Earth. It is part of the Ring of Fire "“ intermittent chains of volcanoes that encircle the Pacific Ocean. Over at least the last 6 million years, Kamchatka has experienced more explosive eruptions than any place on Earth. Historically, the level of activity has made it...
Latest Stratovolcanoes Reference Libraries
Crater Lake National Park is located in the United Sates in southern Oregon and is the fifth established United States national park. The establishment of the park began in 1870, when William Gladstone Steel devoted a large amount of time and money to the area and conducted studies pertaining to the lake and area surrounding it. Steel named many landmarks around Crater Lake including Skell Head and Wizard Island. Steel and his associates pushed Congress to pass the bill establishing Crater...
Katmai National Park and Preserve is located in southern Alaska and holds 4,093,077 acres of protected land, of which 3,473,000 acres of land is comprised of designated wilderness. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill that made the area into a national monument. This was done in order to protect the area around Novarupta, a new volcano at the time that erupted and formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Despite the areas designation as a national monument, there were not many...
Image Credit: Joshua Kelly Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in the country of Japan. It does have a large impact on the weather in the region. The first impact is shown in the image to the left. This is known as a cap cloud as it sits snuggly on top of the mountain. This feature can be indicative of strong turbulence in the area for aviation purposes. The second impact that Mt. Fuji can have is the winter weather in the Tokyo area. When storm systems come in from the west they tend to...
