Welcome to a rather later than usual Friday update. A rather unfortunate collection of unrelated events meant I did not have an opportunity to sit and write this until half past eight on Saturday evening. But my tardiness allowed the volcano gods some extra time to put on a show and they obliged with increased…
Welcome the #7 of our weekly eruptions report. This week appears to have been a fairly quiet one according to the VAAC reports with fewer eruptions reported than previous weeks. Map showing the areas of operation of the various VAAC bodies. Continuing the recent trend, London, Toulouse, Anchorage, Montreal and Wellington all have no reports in their respective…
Welcome to another Friday update. I thought I would start with a brief look at the reports that get filed around the world and how to interpret them and translate them into something that can be easily read and understood. These reports can look quite daunting when you first look at them, but these are…
Welcome to another Friday Update! This week also concludes the first month’s reporting. I hope everyone is enjoying the series so far! I have enjoyed been heartened greatly by everyone’s comments. I was unsure how the series was going to be received by everyone and It appears that this apprehension was unfounded. I have enjoyed…
Welcome to another Friday Update. I will start with the easiest of the reports regions to write about. Europe, North America and Africa are continuing their quiet period with no reports of any activity from these regions. ASIA This week saw a strong eruption from Zhupansovsky on the 12th of February, with Volcano Discovery reporting…
Welcome to a new Friday feature on Volcanocafe. Starting today and coming every Friday, we will be publishing a report on the previous weeks volcanic eruptions from around the world and also any noteworthy stories that also pop up on Twitter or in the news. I will also be posting a globe with the volcano in…
Recently, a minor quake occurred out in the Veiðivötn fissure swarm. A discussion came about from that and mention was made of something that many of us refer to as “The Dead Zone.” Why that name? Well, as many have noted, the area is relatively devoid of quakes when compared to the rest of Iceland. …
As you will probably be aware, we had a fairly serious issue on Monday night into Tuesday, which caused the site to be taken offline. In the light of this, we are about to move to a new and hopefully more robust server and hosting platform. “What will this mean for us?” I hear you…
Hello all! It is with a heavy heart I have to say that Volcanocafé has been stolen. All of the current administrators have been kicked out and content is being deleted from there. We are frantically trying to restore things and save everything from back ups that we have. Sadly any comments from the deleted…