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October 12, 1918 was just another Saturday. On the fields of France, the Hundred Days Offensive was turning a war which would now soon end, but leave 17 million dead; the devastation would set the scene for an even worse war to come. Far away, Puerto Rico lay in ruins after a magnitude-7 earthquake on….
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Flores and the Lewotobi eruption | VolcanoCafe
Nov 4, 2024 · It is a south-dipping fault, and is quite young, at only around 2 million years. An interesting sideline is that the Flores fault runs close to (thought not through) two significant volcanoes: Rinjani (as shown by the 2018 earthquakes) and Tambora. These are the two largest eruptions of the past 1000 years!
The Enigma of the 79 AD Eruption of Vesuvius - VolcanoCafe
Aug 12, 2016 · The August 24 th eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD is the most famous and well-known volcanic eruption of all time. By now, volcanologists have pieced together the sequence of events to form a coherent and comprehensive picture and the only official dilemma is the actual date with meteorological evidence arguing a date towards the middle or end of September.
What Is a Volcano? | VolcanoCafe
What Is a Volcano? “Tanner’s Volcano”, a drawing by a child of about 10 years of age. (Oregon State University) For most people, our first contact with volcanoes will probably have been through the medium of children’s stories; tales of fiery mountains that captured our childish imagination. Since our imagination as children tends to be ...
The Life of a Volcano | VolcanoCafe
The Life of a Volcano. Just like animals, volcanoes go through a life cycle of birth, growth, decline and finally death; they become extinct. In this installment, we will examine such a cycle of a fictitious volcanic complex and introduce another bucketful of terminology to the reader. We cannot have a series of articles on volcanoes without ...
Volcano – VolcanoCafe
Volcano coffee. As has been noted here, little is known about people living near volcanoes which had a VEI-7 eruption. But we do know something about Tambora. The slope of Tambora, on the Sangar peninsula of the island of Sumbawa, was home to the Kingdom of Tambora. The kingdom had been mainly located some distance from the….
July 2021 – VolcanoCafe
Jul 20, 2021 · For those who have been keeping an eye on any events at Taal in the Philippines, the current unrest won’t come as a surprise. Over the past few months the volcano has become progressively more restless and after the huge emission of SO2 on the 28th, there were several phreatomagmatic events on Thursday, July 1st.…
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The Reykjanes Fires, 950-1240 AD. This is a repost of a summary by Hector, of the previous round of Reykjanes eruptions, a millennium ago. (The post is not as old as that, though. It was written during the first Fagradalsfjall eruption, at the very start of the new fire season.) The discussion includes two of the three Svartsengi eruptions of….