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06 April 2024 16:58:07
Mount Etna blows smoke rings from new vent (video)
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68752290 
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Retron
06 April 2024 17:13:34
Originally Posted by: DEW 

Mount Etna blows smoke rings from new vent (video)
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-68752290 


Impressive! Reminds me of my granddad blowing smoke rings from a cigar... a couple of weeks before he had a sudden heart attack and died. It was very impressive to my 6-year-old self (the rings, that is, not the dying part!)
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DEW
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20 April 2024 08:13:34
https://watchers.news/2024/04/19/volcanic-eruption-in-reykjanes-peninsula-continues-to-pose-risks-ground-uplift-continues-iceland/ 

Article contains a lot of numeric data on the progress of the eruption
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Chunky Pea
20 April 2024 08:39:31
Pretty major eruption a couple of days ago in south Asia. Some amazing volcanic lightning was captured. 
Current Conditions
https://t.ly/MEYqg 


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Chunky Pea
27 April 2024 16:23:14
Lava has breached one of the 'berms' in Iceland. Doesn't look like much yet but shows that the slow and steady volcanic eruption is causing a slow and steady build up. 

 
Current Conditions
https://t.ly/MEYqg 


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doctormog
27 April 2024 16:34:18
Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 

Lava has breached one of the 'berms' in Iceland. Doesn't look like much yet but shows that the slow and steady volcanic eruption is causing a slow and steady build up. 

 



Live camera link here: https://www.youtube.com/live/GuWaaQJMiCg?si=to0hJpaZQyg2D8XM 
ozone_aurora
30 April 2024 21:09:16
Massive explosive eruption has occurred on Raung volcano, of eastern Java, Indonesia, on 18 April 2024. Ash was sent 60k feet into the atmosphere and residents are being evacuated from lava flows.
ozone_aurora
30 April 2024 21:13:48
Further eruption of Ruang volcano has occurred on April 30th, 2024 at 02:52 local time, producing pyroclastic flows. I only just learnt about this eruption, so please feel free to correct me or add further information.
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13 May 2024 06:27:20
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9xzzy57lyo 
Cold lava sweeps villages near volcano, killing 37

Mount Merapi in Sumatra with commentray on how human activity is making these incidents more frequent. .

Pity the BBC can't get its terms right and has dumbed down from using the word 'lahar'.
 
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13 May 2024 07:31:00
Originally Posted by: DEW 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9xzzy57lyo 
Cold lava sweeps villages near volcano, killing 37

Mount Merapi in Sumatra with commentray on how human activity is making these incidents more frequent. .

Pity the BBC can't get its terms right and has dumbed down from using the word 'lahar'.
 


Yes, I read that and wondered about the flowing cold lava, a misnomer if ever there is such a thing.
But then you perhaps have a journalist using English as their second language and an editor who’s not versed in vulcanology posting this story. Confused?
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Retron
13 May 2024 07:40:22
Originally Posted by: DEW 

Pity the BBC can't get its terms right and has dumbed down from using the word 'lahar'.
 


From the article: 'The phrase cold lava is a translation of the term "lahar" in Indonesian and Tagalog.'

The term is a new one on me, and I earned a B in GCSE in geography at a grammar school! The closest we ever got was "pyroclastic flow" - but that's quite a bit hotter, of course. It could also be the fact that the teacher was hopeless: I remember he gave only the briefest attention to physical geography (as he "didn't like it"), and instead focused on the (to me, boring) human geography. We had more lessons on the Maasai tribe than we did on the entire topic of volcanoes and plate tectonics, for example.

Annoyingly I ditched geography for business studies at A level, as he was going to be the teacher of it... he then quit unexpectedly over the summer holidays, but it was too late to change. That was the end of my dream (at the time) of working in meteorology, as the careers advisor said A level geography was a must. Pah.


 
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