When you hear news reports about volcanoes spewing lava and ash, you may worry about the people nearby. In fact, almost 1 in 10 people around the world live within 100 kilometers of an active volcano. For those living close to volcanoes, farming on their fertile soils, or visiting their spectacular landscapes, it is crucial ...
If you’re looking for a new adventure that’s both beautiful and mysterious, Crater Lake National Park is the perfect destination for you. Situated on top of a dormant volcano, this national park is unlike any other. From the depths of the lake to the eerie islands rising above its surface, there is always something to ...
Methane emissions created by volcanic activity burning buried fossil fuel deposits could have played a major role in the global warming that triggered the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history, a new study suggests. The Late Permian Mass Extinction, also known as “the great dying,” happened around 260 million years ago, and wiped out ...
When magma bubbles up toward Earth’s surface and meets groundwater, steam pressure builds, sometimes bursting into eruptions that spew currents of hot ash, such as the Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley, potentially burning and asphyxiating people and burying nearby cities. Take, for example, similar ash currents that formed during the eruptions at Mount Vesuvius, which were ...
In January 2022, Tonga experienced a volcanic eruption confirmed to be the most enormous explosion that has even been documented through modern methodologies and instrumentations. The impacts of the record-breaking Tonga eruption were so substantial that a subsequent tsunami occurred. Other than that, about 85,000 individuals were directly affected by the catastrophe. Given Tonga’s small ...
Dr. James Hunt from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), in partnership with Professor Dave Tappin from the British Geological Survey, has produced the first marine survey results of the December 22, 2018 landslide at Anak Krakatau in Indonesia. This event created the deadly “silent” Sundra Strait tsunami that affected Sumatra and Java. For the first ...
Volcano or meteorite? During the last 100 years, two different theories have been put forward to explain the origin of Lake Mien. But in a new study, researchers from Lund University can finally establish that the Småland lake was formed by a giant celestial body. For a long time, it was thought that the circular Lake Mien ...
New research suggests forces pulling on Earth’s surface as the planet spins may trigger earthquakes and eruptions from volcanoes. Seismic activity and bursts of magma near Italy’s Mount Etna increased when Earth’s rotational axis was furthest from its geographic axis, according to a new study comparing changes in Earth’s rotation to activity at the well-known ...
The Internet has been going wild over the past couple of days after media reported that Iceland’s Katla volcano is about to erupt, an event that would dwarf even the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. However, recent reports suggest that the news was just another case of media sensationalism. The fake news It was the British ...
UTA researcher Naomi Cleghorn has participated in a Nature paper that describes how humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba volcanic eruption about 74,000 years ago, which created a decades-long volcanic winter. The scientific team found microscopic glass shards that had traveled nearly 9,000 kilometers from the eruption site and landed in the archaeological sediments of ...
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