News tagged with volcanologists
Off the shelf maps help mitigate volcanic hazards
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When volcanoes erupt, pinpointing the regions at high risk for lethal hazards and deciding whether or not to evacuate a resistant population comprise the most difficult problems faced by hazards ...
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Chile's Chaiten volcano one of scores of active volcanoes in region
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2008 |
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The Chaiten volcano now erupting in southern Chile is one of 200 to 300 volcanoes in the "Andean Arc" region of Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia considered active by volcanologists, some of which lie in much ...
Rapid analysis could cut health risks of volcanic ash
Oct 10, 2007 |
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A new, rapid and cheap way of estimating the potential risk posed to human health by volcanic ash has been devised by a Durham University expert.
A Growing Intelligence Around Earth
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Oct 27, 2006 |
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The Indonesian volcano Talang on the island of Sumatra had been dormant for centuries when, in April 2005, it suddenly rumbled to life. A plume of smoke rose 1000 meters high and nearby villages were covered ...
Ash shows past eruptions 'underestimated'
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May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study into ash fallout from the biggest volcanic eruption in almost 20 years has shown that the impact of past eruptions is likely to have been significantly underestimated as so much of ...
Philippine volcano gets louder, could erupt soon
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt.
A fresh look inside Mount St. Helens
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Volcanoes are notoriously hard to study. All the action takes place deep inside, at enormous temperatures. So geophysicists make models, using what they know to develop theories about what they don’t know.
NASA Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, one of the most active volcanoes in the United States. Networks such as these could one day be used ...
Physicists aim to predict volcano eruption
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2007 |
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University of St Andrews scientists have been awarded a three year grant to create an on-site life-saving device to help predict volcano eruption.
Evidence of volcanic eruptions deep beneath the Arctic Ocean
Jun 25, 2008 |
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A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, ...
Volcanoes inner workings disclosed when the Earth moved
Aug 09, 2005 |
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While volcanologists can see the dome of the Soufriere Hills Volcano on the island of Montserrat grow and collapse, it takes instrumentation to delve beneath the surface. Now, Penn State geologists, using tiltmeter measurements, ...
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