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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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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 ...
Mount Tehama, Brokeoff Mountain and the Lassen Volcanic
Aug 20, 2016 · The most important ones are Brokeoff Mountain, the major remnant of ancestral Mount Tehama, Lassen Peak itself and the Chaos Crags. Please note the extent of volcanic features within the Park. (USGS) Volcanic activity in the area goes back at least three million years. About 600,000 years ago, contemporary with the formation of nearby Mount ...
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….
Lurking in the swamp: the Florida volcano | VolcanoCafe
Jan 14, 2018 · Some reports aimed more for the gullible but at least indicate the phenomenon was well known. In 1879, a brief story appeared in several newspapers stating (quoting the Cincinnati daily star, Sept 12 1879) ‘ It has been privately informed that the location of the so-called Florida Volcano in Wakulla County has been explored, and that the discoverers found amazing natural curiosities in 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.…
Iceland - VolcanoCafe
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….
Volcanocafé – VolcanoCafe
Volcano coffee. Volcanoes can be costly. The Kilauea eruption of Feb 28, 1955 destroyed 21 houses, 10km of road, 4000 acres of sugar plantations and one coffee plantation: the damage was 40 million dollar in today’s prices. The cost of Mount St Helens was 1 billion dollar. Both events were eclipsed by Eyjafjallajokull: its price tag of….