"a recent survey revealed that for the population of the Phlegraean Fields the perception of risk is low...[they] forget that although they do not have a conical mountain looming over them, what they have under their feet is a time bomb."
In Italy's fiery Phlegraean Fields,
The ground constantly shifts and yields,
With each volcanic quirk,
Locals must always work,
To live in a land that never shields.
Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/hawaii-volcano-observatory-doge-cuts #Nationalparks #Environment #USpolitics #Volcanoes #ElonMusk #Hawaii #USnews
I found this image of Mars while reading up on Olympus Mons. I see these huge volcanoes and I think we had better take care of the #Earth because We would be better off building an additional Moon to orbit Earths Moon in the Goldilocks Zone than building a civilization near these monsters in the freezing cold. taking bets on whether those are asleep or dead #volcanoes. not pictured is Alba Mons which isnt as tall, but is much wider that #Olympusmons these volcanoes are as big as US states. #Mars
https://www.europesays.com/1913869/ Is it safe to travel to Naples? Italy prepares for possible evacuations amid earthquake tremors #earthquake #evacuation #italy #Naples #safety #VolcanoEruption #volcanoes
Puʻuloa Petroglyphs in Kalapana, Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.#archaeology #volcanoes #turtles #petroglyphs #section-Atlas
Puʻuloa Petroglyphs
#Naples residents camp #outdoors after overnight #quake https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkm8dxky82o
Many people in and around the Italian city spend the night on the streets and in their cars, fearing aftershocks.
#megavolcanoes #volcanoes #seismicity
Eruption of the Fuego Volcano, Guatemala
#NaturalEvents #UniqueImagery #Volcanoes
Signal boost for my current favourite 'Oologies' episode: Volcanology.
https://www.alieward.com/ologies/volcanology @volcanojess #volcanoes #volcanology #alieward #ologies #ologieswithalieward #science #podcasts
LiveScience: Mystery of how man's brain turned to glass after Vesuvius eruption possibly solved
"When the fuming and rumbling at Mount Spurr, a giant volcano northwest of Anchorage, started picking up in October, Alaska’s volcano monitoring agency raised its alert level to ensure that nearby communities and passing airplanes would have ample warning of any eruption.
The Trump administration’s cost-cutting campaign has put this work in jeopardy.
The credit cards that employees at the United States Geological Survey’s volcano observatory in Alaska use to pay for travel and other expenses have been frozen, according to two people who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak with the news media.
Crucially, those expenses include the telecommunications services that the observatory relies on to transmit data from its monitoring systems on the volcanoes, the people said. If spending continues to be restricted, these services could be shut off. That might mean a loss of real-time information about volcanic activity, the people said."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/climate/alaska-volcano-monitoring-doge.html
Mount Aso (阿蘇山, Aso-san) or Aso Volcano is the largest active volcano in Japan and among the largest in the world.
#volcanoes #Japan
There once was a mountain named Etna
Whose eruptions caused quite the phenomena
Rescuers in dread
Risking their lives with each tread
High heels and selfies, a dangerous enigma
#GuardianLimerick #Italy #Volcanoes #Mountaineering #Europe #Overtourism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/28/etna-eruptions-cause-despair-among-mountain-rescuers
#WeekendReading: Rivas et al., on an Early #Cretaceous volcaniclastic–carbonate ramp in southern Chile. An interesting aperture into the Cretaceous temperate #carbonates (lots of #oysters) and their interactions in #volcanoes
I constantly find myself comparing and contrasting with these Late Cretaceous volcanic #atolls I worked on.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10347-023-00669-4
This is your brain on… volcanoes?! Quite a story from Herculaneum… #volcanoes #pompeii #science
https://www.science.org/content/article/brain-turned-glass-reveals-city-s-catastrophic-final-moments
There's only one known case in which the blast from a volcanic eruption turned a victim's #brain into glass - going back to Mount Vesuvius' blast in the year 79 - and now scientists think they know how it happened. https://cosmiclog.com/2025/02/27/how-an-ancient-eruption-turned-a-victims-brain-into-glass/ #Science #Pompeii #Herculaneum #Volcanoes
