One to keep an eye on!

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How is this thread weather by any stretch of the imagination..
Is there not a better forum here on boards for you severe earth movement freaks whilst us weather freaks read relevant topics for the weather forum:)

4Sheets Calm down ha, this was brought up b4, there aint no geology forum so they wer welcome to join us here. PLus most of US weather freaks like geology also!:)

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4Sheets wrote: »

How is this thread weather by any stretch of the imagination..
Is there not a better forum here on boards for you severe earth movement freaks whilst us weather freaks read relevant topics for the weather forum:)

and you became a moderator when....

This topic has been thrashed out before. Majority have no problem with earthquakes being reported here. Report post to the Mods why dont you if it bothers you so much.


PS. this thread is 17 pages long. Why come in now and complain? is this the first time it has irked you??

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And to add my two cents worth, volcanoes can have an effect on the weather. Kizimen could have an effect on the climate in much the same way the Mount Pinatubo eruption did. So they are weather related. :P

meanwhile back at the ranch.. good lave flow from etna still.

looking very biblical now, red skys over it, stunning.

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A photo of Etna taken in the last hour.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/etnaboris/5317303031/

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From Icelandic Volcano and Earthquake Blog. Posted on January 2, 2011 by Jón Frímann

Update 1: This has been confirmed by more news media in Iceland. This also appears to have been going on all day. But the explosions today might have been at lower noise level during the day then happened tonight (this is unclear at the moment however). But also according to the news this explosions have been heard to Hvolsvöllur in the right wind direction (or a good weather?). This explosive booms have also been heard by other people in the area around Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

I cant post pic for life of me, but you all really should check out the webcam sky is amazing.

http://www.etnaweb.net/nunziata/webcam.php

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Another photo. The info under it is good stuff as BB is a vulcanologist working on Etna.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/etnaboris/5317511851/

Looks like a genie is about to come out of etna LOL
big magic red cloud.:D

WolfeIRE

http://i53.tinypic.com/2rgcoqo.jpg
another view

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WolfeIRE wrote: »

http://i53.tinypic.com/2rgcoqo.jpg
another view

Sorry Wolfe but apparently

that’s not the activty at Etna, that’s some light in Catania or surroundings. Currently the activity is very weak, no fountain, just small Strombolian bursts that barely clear the rim of the pit.

It would be amazing if it was. There is plenty of time yet though for that sort of thing I am led to believe.

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Sorry Wolfe but apparently



It would be amazing if it was. There is plenty of time yet though for that sort of thing I am led to believe.

Looks pretty decent on webcam I thought

mind you seems to be getting smaller.

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Nothing new since on Eyja although it has been put forward that it may be older material on the move but no one seems to have any idea yet..

A photo of Etna this morning.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/etnaboris/5318878917/


The volcano on Manam Island* in Papua-New Guinea seems to be showing signs of activitity. It does appear though from this article that people have returned to the island despite the threat. It seems to be one of those islands that is basically a volcano sticking out of the sea so no where to retreat to if it erupts.

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From BB at BT: It is one of the most active volcanoes on this planet. It had a series of very strong eruptions (with large pyroclastic flows and lava flows) in 2004 and 2005, which led to the virtually total evacuation of the island, and so far the people have not been allowed to return to Manam, obviously causing a lot of hardship.

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Piton de la Fournaise Volcano which started this thread appears to be gearing up again slowly.

http://www.clicanoo.re/11-actualites/28-volcan/269053-la-sismicite-s-intensifie-peu-a.html

WolfeIRE

Slide show of volcanic activity at Mount Etna in the last 24 hrs. http://bit.ly/dWJuzw

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WolfeIRE wrote: »

Slide show of volcanic activity at Mount Etna in the last 24 hrs. http://bit.ly/dWJuzw

Thanks Wolfe, was going to post that earlier myself, but didnt want to deal with the questions of why we are posting in the weather forum.:D;);)

Brilliant slide show isnt it? This is the cam I was watching last night. got some great screenshots.

WolfeIRE

great pics alright Jake. Etan is a very active volcano though so I am sure those at the foothills were not overly concerned

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Some bits and pieces I collected to keep those of you who are interested informed if you don't have time to go looking yourself.

Kizimen still gearing up for a flank collapse.

Erik Klemetti on January 5, 2011, 1:23 PM
(Big Think Eruptions link)

Etna: Dr. Boris Behncke and the staff at the INGV Catania has been keeping us up to date with the renewed activity at Sicily's Etna. Most of the activity appears to be small explosions of incandescent material, but no new lava flows or fountaining of juvenile material so far. The INGV site has a series of images from the activity as does Dr. Behncke's Flickr stream. A lot of this activity is likely a sign that magma is nearing the surface, but as with most volcanic eruptions, it is unclear when or even if juvenile (new) lava will erupt from Etna. You can check out all the INGV webcams as well.

Kizimen: Kamchatka looks to be starting the year running, with some big puffs out of Kizimen (see below). The latest statement from KVERT from January 3:

Explosive eruption of Kizimen Volcano continues. Ash explosions up to 10 km (or 32,800 ft) ASL possible at any time. Ongoing activity could affect international and low-flying aircraft. According to the seismic data, activity of the volcano began increasing from ~02:00 UTC on January 03 again. Strong volcanic earthquakes and volcanic tremor are registering at the volcano. According to satellite data, the explosive eruption of the volcano continues, and ash plumes extend > 200 km (124 mi) to the south-east from the volcano. The big bright thermal anomaly over the volcano is registering all time.

All of this sounds like some significant explosive activity at the volcano that will continue to drop ash on the region.

Tungurahua: Speaking of ongoing activity, the NASA Earth Observatory posted two images of the summit area of Ecuador's Tungurahua. One shows the current plume - a weak, mostly-steam plume - along with an enhanced false-color near IR image showing the hot material, likely a small lava dome, in the summit crater. New year, same old activity at Tungurahua.

Merapi: The eruptive activity at Merapi may have waned significantly - reduced to alert status 2 (of 4) on December 30, but that hasn't lessened the threat of volcanic hazards to the region. Rain in the area near Merapi produced lahars from remobilized ash that knocked out bridges on the Putih River. One thing is clear, the recovery in the area near the volcano will take time.

(http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/?p=414)
A new earthquake swarm in Krísuvík volcano
Posted on January 4, 2011 by Jón Frímann

A new earthquake swarm appears to have started yesterday in the Krísuvík volcano. This earthquake swarm is a small one, in the number of earthquakes and the size of them. The largest earthquakes according to the automatic SIL system are around ML1.8 in size. The depth is constant around 2 to 5 km or so. This earthquake swarm is just the latest of earthquake swarm that have been taking place in Krísuvík volcano over the past few weeks. As the earthquake activity has been more or less continues for the past few months in Krísuvík volcano.

The current GPS plot shows some inflation taking place at Krísuvík volcano. But so far it is small and does not indicate that a eruption is immanent in Krísuvík volcano. But if the inflow of magma changes suddenly this might change when Krísuvík volcano might start erupting.

A new earthquake swarm in Krísuvík volcano
Posted on January 4, 2011 by Jón Frímann

A new earthquake swarm appears to have started yesterday in the Krísuvík volcano. This earthquake swarm is a small one, in the number of earthquakes and the size of them. The largest earthquakes according to the automatic SIL system are around ML1.8 in size. The depth is constant around 2 to 5 km or so. This earthquake swarm is just the latest of earthquake swarm that have been taking place in Krísuvík volcano over the past few weeks. As the earthquake activity has been more or less continues for the past few months in Krísuvík volcano.

The current GPS plot shows some inflation taking place at Krísuvík volcano. But so far it is small and does not indicate that a eruption is immanent in Krísuvík volcano. But if the inflow of magma changes suddenly this might change when Krísuvík volcano might start erupting.

There have been no more reported explosions from Eyjafjallajökull, that I have been able to track down, and some of the Vulcarati are conjecturing that it was water from a crack in a crater lake filtering down on to still molten magma underneath which would would create explosive, rumbling sounds but this is not certain. Suffice to say that Iceland should prove exciting due to one or more its volcanoes this year.

Kizimen

Kizimen 2

Giggle translate had a go.

Theres been a small earthquake in Iceland.


3.3 dept 6 kms

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Villarrica Webcam

A nice bit of activity.

Villarrica Volcano, Chile

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The Mila webcams are back up and working in Iceland. They now include one at Gullfoss. That place is so beautiful. The shaking you see is due to storm conditions messing with the webcams and not EQs.

http://live.mila.is/gullfoss/

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The Mila webcams are back up and working in Iceland. They now include one at Gullfoss. That place is so beautiful. The shaking you see is due to storm conditions messing with the webcams and not EQs.

http://live.mila.is/gullfoss/

Ive been watching katla for while. The cams have me mesmerised

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Jake1 wrote: »

Ive been watching katla for while. The cams have me mesmerised

Get back in the kitchen, woman and make me a coffee!

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Get back in the kitchen, woman and make me a coffee!

LOL, that sounds familiar
Speaking of coffee....

goes puts kettle on, for day of snow watching, volcano watching and earthquake checking. Empty house, pure bliss really.

Vanuatu getting pounded all day. Swarm of quakes all over 5.0 from what I can see. 6.9 earlier today too.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

heres a link to Nat Data Bouy center.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/obs.shtml

Mt Etna firing up again.

http://www.etnaweb.net/nunziata/webcam.php

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Here's a webcam zoomed directly on the active pit at Etna.

ETA: Another webcam view.

wow, its gotten bigger since ive been on last ! Thats quite the lava flow.

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Here's a webcam zoomed directly on the active pit at Etna.

ETA: Another webcam view.

Put the kettle on. Japan just got a few 6.6's as well. Busy night for the earth.

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Just getting off the plane near Etna and about to pop my lava proof kettle on the sumit! My other computer got a virus or something and died earlier so I missed the best of the live show while trying to get this up and running. It's like something from the Flintstones with me pedaling madly just to change a page. You'd never think I got upgraded to 20 whatsits by UPC today. I'm like a dog. Just looking for photos and things.

Here's a flicker link to Boris Behncke's photos. It looks gorgeous.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/etnaboris/5350138321/in/photostream/

And some screen shots from Diana.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54065356@N02/sets/72157625685015115/

Off to see what's happening in Japan.