Category Archives: volcanoes

Mount Kelud calms down

The Indonesian Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation has downgraded the alert level for Mount Kelud, and allowed villagers evacuated from the slopes of the mountain to return to their homes. Since I can’t translate Indonesian, I can’t give … Continue reading

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Kelud and Lusi

The latest from Lusi It seems that a certain mud volcano is situated less than a 100 km away from the grumbling Mount Kelud, and it is not responding well to the increased geological activity in the area: Separately, a … Continue reading

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The Jabal al-Tair eruption in close-up

I seem to be having a fairly volcanic week, so whilst we’re on the subject of volcanoes in the news, someone over at Nasa’s Earth Observatory got a satellite to snap Jabal al-Tair in the Red Sea, which erupted at … Continue reading

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Defusing Mount Kelud

Indonesia is certainly not a destination for those wanting the geologically quiet life; its close proximity to a subduction zone is a recipe not just for large, potentially tsunami generating, earthquakes, but also a significant number of explosive volcanoes. Mount … Continue reading

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A tale of two volcanoes

The theme for the second edition of The Accretionary Wedge is “Total Destruction”. Anyone who has studied geology knows that there is no shortage of things on, within, and even outside the Earth that are capable of making things decidedly … Continue reading

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