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So Im here in Antigua to hike the volcanoes Pacaya and Acatenango/Fuego.
The owner of my hostel told me that El Fuego is in a low activity period recently.
Do you guys know where I can find informations about it?
9:32 pacific time on Jan 31, 2025
1,532 earthquakes in the last 3 days in area shown
Hello! I am not a geologist, but have recently gone down a bit of a rabbit hole on volcanoes and am just fascinated. Been especially preoccupied with trying to figure out candidates for the next big vei 6 or 7 event. When you try to google volcanoes likely to produce large eruptions, it seems that most resources point to volcanoes that have been especially active lately like st helens, which is solid logic I suppose, but the thing that I find myself continually going back to is that looking at historical 6 and 7 size eruptions like pinitubo, a huge amount of them seem to be quiet volcanoes that were overlooked or thought to be dormant at the time that suddenly came alive and produced massive explosive eruptions. So just thought it would be fun to ask, in the opinion of people more knowledgeable, are there any current large quiet stratovolcanoes that you think are primed to unexpectedly come alive in a massive way?
Hi! The thought of seeing a volcano erupts occurred to me only yesterday, but I really want to give it a shot. Since I’m now studying in Finland, I think the best options for me would be to go to Iceland or Italy. What country or mountain or tour would you recommend for me to go to, regarding the prices and the likelihood to see it? I’m thinking of the end of February to the middle of March. Thanks 😊
P/s: it would be great if sb can book a tour and go see it with me cause I’m a complete amateur:)
Hi, can somebody please explain me what are brontides? I came across this word while reading a sci-fi novel set in Congo, specifically near the Mukenko (Virunga volcanoes)
Anyone else searching daily to see the status? What a terrible situation. So little data to know what is going on.
Anyone have accounts or places that might have regular updates? I have been just searching blue sky and the “other” one.
Today I learned how powerful the 79CE eruption of Vesuvius was!
It had an estimated total thermal energy release of about 1,500 megatonnes of TNT..
This is equivalent to approx. 150,000 London Blitzes, 385,000 Dresden bombings, 100,000 Hiroshimas, 72,000 Nagasakis.
In fact, it was the equivalent of 737 times all bombs dropped during WW2 (including atomic), or approx 500 times the estimated total of bombs dropped throughout history!
If you compare it to the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created (the Tsar Bomba), it's the equivalent of 30 of those!
Very rare to see one this big erupt. It’s pretty rare to find footage of one erupting… this it pretty new footage (early December 2024)
I'm thinking of Victim 43 specifically but there may have been others.
https://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Casts/victim%2043.htm
I understand that this man was fleeing through a garden after surviving the initial storm of pumice from Vesuvius, but then was killed by the subsequent pyroclastic flow. It looks like he was lying on the ground, but up on his elbow as if speaking the person next to him. He died in such a seemingly casual position, I don't understand how he wasn't thrown to the ground by the unstoppable power of the pyroclastic flow that killed him?
Some small parts of the caldera collapsed in the sea and people run out of their houses in fear.More aftershocks are reported.