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April 28, 2021
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Energy Unleashed by Submarine Volcanoes Could Power a Continent

Apr. 21, 2021 — Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely powerful releases of energy, at a rate high enough to power the whole of the United States, according to new ...
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Hidden Magma Pools Pose Eruption Risks That We Can't Yet Detect

Apr. 16, 2021 — Volcanologists' ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth's crust. But what happens if the magma ...

New Basalt Type Discovered Beneath the Ocean

Mar. 22, 2021 — A new type of rock created during large and exceptionally hot volcanic eruptions has been discovered beneath the Pacific ...

The Blast That Shook the Ionosphere

Mar. 17, 2021 — A 2020 explosion in Lebanon's port city of Beirut led to a southward-bound, high-velocity atmospheric wave that rivaled ones generated by volcanic ...
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Scientists Identify Flank Instability at a Volcano With History of Collapse

Jan. 26, 2021 — Landslides caused by the collapse of unstable volcanoes are one of the major dangers of volcanic eruptions. A method to detect long-term movements of these mountains using satellite images could help ...

Wet and Wild: There's Lots of Water in the World's Most Explosive Volcano

Jan. 23, 2021 — Conditions inside the Shiveluch volcano include roughly 10%-14% water by weight (wt%), according to new research. Most volcanoes have less than 1% water. For subduction zone volcanoes, the average is ...

Tiny Bubbles Tell Tales of Big Volcanic Eruptions

Jan. 19, 2021 — Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth's biggest volcanic eruptions and geoscientists have discovered some of those stories are written in ...

Understanding Origins of Arizona's Sunset Crater Eruption of 1,000 Years Ago

Jan. 11, 2021 — Scientists have been working to solve the mysterious root cause of the Sunset Crater eruption and any lessons learned to better understand the threats similar volcanoes may pose around the world ...

Scientists Develop New Approach to Understanding Massive Volcanic Eruptions

Jan. 4, 2021 — An international volcanology team has created a first-of-its kind tool that can aid scientists in understanding past explosive eruptions that shaped the earth and improve the way of estimating ...

Secret of Australia's Volcanoes Revealed

Dec. 16, 2020 — New research proposes a theory that explains not only Australia's volcanic coast, but provides a framework for other incidences of intraplate volcanism in China, the US and the ...

Hawai'i Researchers Kept the Data Flowing During Crisis Response on Kilauea

Dec. 9, 2020 — The summer 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano on the Island of Hawai'i was one of the most significant in the volcano's history, collapsing a large portion of the summit caldera, erupting ...

Crystals May Help Reveal Hidden Kilauea Volcano Behavior

Dec. 4, 2020 — Researchers used millimeter-sized crystals from the 1959 eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano to test models that offer insights about flow conditions prior to and during an ...

Cluster of Alaskan Islands Could Be Single, Interconnected Giant Volcano

Dec. 3, 2020 — A small group of volcanic islands in Alaska's Aleutian chain might be part of a single, undiscovered giant volcano, say scientists. If the researchers' suspicions are correct, the newfound ...

Cascading Events Led to 2018 Kilauea Volcanic Eruption, Providing Clues for Forecasting

Nov. 24, 2020 — The 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano was one of the largest volcanic events in Hawaii in 200 years. This eruption was triggered by a relatively small and rapid change at the volcano after a ...

Piecing Together the Alaska Coastline's Fractured Volcanic Activity

Nov. 17, 2020 — Among seismologists, the geology of Alaska's earthquake- and volcano-rich coast from the Aleutian Islands to the southeast is fascinating, but not well understood. Now, with more sophisticated ...

Crystals Reveal the Danger of Sleeping Volcanoes

Nov. 5, 2020 — Most active volcanoes on Earth are dormant and are normally not considered hazardous. A team of volcanologists has devised a technique that can predict their devastating potential. The scientists ...

Magma 'Conveyor Belt' Fuelled World's Longest Erupting Supervolcanoes

Nov. 4, 2020 — Geologists have found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the world's most continuously active -- erupting for 30 million years -- fueled by a constantly moving 'conveyor ...

New Drone Technology Improves Ability to Forecast Volcanic Eruptions

Oct. 30, 2020 — Specially-adapted drones have been gathering data from never-before-explored volcanoes that will enable local communities to better forecast future eruptions. The cutting-edge research at Manam ...

Using a Volcano's Eruption 'Memory' to Forecast Dangerous Follow-on Explosions

Oct. 28, 2020 — Stromboli, the 'lighthouse of the Mediterranean', is known for its low-energy but persistent explosive eruptions, behaviour that is known scientifically as Strombolian activity. ...

Stressed out Volcanoes More Likely to Collapse and Erupt

Oct. 16, 2020 — An international study has discovered how volcanoes experience stress. The study has implications for how the world might be better protected against future volcano ...

The Testimony of Trees: How Volcanic Eruptions Shaped 2000 Years of World History

Sep. 28, 2020 — Researchers have shown that over the past two thousand years, volcanoes have played a larger role in natural temperature variability than previously thought, and their climatic effects may have ...

Indian Monsoon Can Be Predicted Better After Volcanic Eruptions

Sep. 18, 2020 — Large volcanic eruptions can help to forecast the monsoon over India - the seasonal rainfall that is key for the country's agriculture and thus for feeding one billion people. As erratic as they ...

Volcanic Ash May Have a Bigger Impact on the Climate Than We Thought

Sep. 11, 2020 — Volcanic ash shuts down air traffic and can sicken people. But a new study suggests that it may also be more important for Earth's climate than scientists once ...

Rebirth of a Volcano

Sep. 10, 2020 — Continued volcanic activity after the collapse of a volcano has not been documented in detail so far. Now and for the first time, researchers are presenting the results of a photogrammetric data ...
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