After Hawaii’s Governor David Ige issued a mandatory evacuation order, 1700 people were evacuated late Thursday from the vicinity of the big island’s largest volcano. Within 2 hours, the US geological survey reported that this most recent eruption of the Kilauea volcano ceased activity at approximately 6:30 PM HST. But, on Friday morning reported that the eruption of lava […]
Authorities in the Philippines are warning residents of the imminent and potentially dangerous eruption of the country’s most active volcano. State volcanologists raised the threat level for Mount Mayon to four on a scale of five, meaning the eruption could happen within hours or days. It has already spewed ash, lava, molten rock and steam […]
Authorities on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali have raised the volcano alert to the highest level as Mount Agung continues to churn and belch menacing-looking ash and smoke. Landslides of lahar, wet volcanic debris, are making muddy trails down the volcano’s slopes. Officials have extended the danger zone around the rumbling volcano to 10 […]
Nine years after it erupted, Kasatochi Island is just beginning to resemble its neighbors. Kasatochi is a speck in the middle of the Aleutian chain between Dutch Harbor and Adak, about 75 miles east of the latter. The volcanic island had no modern history of erupting until August 2008. In a few days that summer, […]