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It's no lie, even if this is another kind of eruption – one in which life erupts from what was once a death-spreading mountain. Mount St. Helens is very well known for its huge eruption back in 1980, an event that didn't surprise anybody and that left visible traces until today. “It began with... |
1 November 2010
07:31 GMT |
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An international team of geophysicists from the universities of Leeds, Purdue, Indiana and Addis Ababa, found a better way of determining where volcanic eruptions are more likely to occur.They analyzed the volcanic activity in the Afar desert in Northern Ethiopia, between 2005 and 2009 and after focusing on a rare se... |
27 September 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Geologists and other experts from the University of Leeds have recently demonstrated the existence of another global extinction event, other than the five ones already documented. They discovered traces of a giant volcanic eruption that led to worldwide annihilation some 260 million years ago, and took place in the E... |
29 May 2009
10:42 GMT |
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After numerous warnings, in the form of tremors and increased pressure in its magma chamber, Mount Redoubt in Alaska erupted four times last night, sending plumes of ash and gases more than 9 miles high into the atmosphere. The events took place between 10:38 pm on Sunday evening and 1:39 am on Monday morning, local ... |
23 March 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Earlier today, Mount Asama, which watches over the Japanese capital of Tokyo, erupted, projecting a smoke column more than a mile high, and raining ash and other debris over parts of the city. The earliest reports coming from Japan say that there have been no immediate casualties or material damage reported. However,... |
2 February 2009
04:40 GMT |
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We have recently written about an event that nearly extinguished all life on Earth some 250 million years ago. It had to do with the most massive superplume ever that originated in the near-core region of the Earth and slowly reached towards the surface during millions of years, culminating with three large volcanic ... |
15 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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A team of Italian volcanologists from the University of Naples Federico II, comprised of Claudio Scarpati, Giuseppe Luongo and Annamaria Perrotta, have managed to use the latest techniques in order to render a pretty accurate image of the final hours in the life of a Pompeii-based house during the eruption of mount V... |
12 December 2008
15:51 GMT |
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The Indonesian Lusi mud volcano, which erupted on May 28, is still spilling out millions of liters of mud each day. However, the theories that are trying to explain what happened range from the influence of an earthquake to the misconduct of a drilling company prospecting for natural gas in the area, Lapindo Brantas.... |
3 November 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Just two days ago, the volcano with the most relentless activity in the world erupted again. Instead of the lava spills which tended to become regular until this year, it was yet another powerful explosion. It is the latest in a series of such recent events, although not the largest.One of the five volcanoes that mak... |
14 October 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Scientists from Italy and France say that Vesuvius, the Italian volcano that transformed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae into graveyards in 79 AD shows signs of doing the same soon. Contrary to what most people believe, a volcano is not just the conic mountain that spits lava and ash toward... |
11 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's Envisat satellite captured beautiful pictures of the Mount Gamkonora, a volcano in Indonesia that erupted on July 10, 2007, after more than three centuries after the largest eruption and is now spewing hot ash and smoke into the air.The highest peak of Halmahera island, Indonesia, vi... |
12 July 2007
06:34 GMT |
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The northern tip of the Pacific Ring of Fire is boiling. Klyuchevskoy, a stratovolcano located in the north central part of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the highest mountain of this peninsula (4,649 m or 15,470 ft tall) is spitting ash up to 32,000 ft (10,700 m) in the air and has diverted air traffic in routes toward... |
6 July 2007
05:45 GMT |
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Mauna Loa is one of the five volcanoes making up the Hawaii Island, the Earth's largest one, with a volume estimated at about 18,000 cubic miles (75,000 km³).The way the massive volcano is bulging and the swelling could enable the researchers to forecast when the next massive eruption will occur. Better prognose... |
18 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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One of the most spectacular solar flares has been recorded on film with extreme details by the Japanese Hinode satellite and helped scientists see what's behind the colossal eruption.A solar flare is a violent explosion in the Sun's atmosphere with an energy equivalent to a billion megatons, traveling norm... |
26 April 2007
02:51 GMT |
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