Wellington: It’s usually the volcanoes that we can see that grab our attention. But a violent underwater volcanic eruption on the Pacific island of Tonga in mid-January has people staring at volcanoes under the ocean. Two-thirds of all volcanic activity occurs on the high seas,” says Christoph Helo, a volcanologist at the University of Mainz […]
New Delhi: On Saturday January 15, an explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano occurred, triggering a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean. The Undersea Volcano, also called Undersea Volcano, is located in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga, an archipelago of more than 170 islands in the South Pacific Ocean 2,000 km northeast of […]
Premieres Wednesday January 5, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday January 9 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand Our planet is bursting at the seams. Globally, up to 30 volcanoes erupt each day – and hundreds more could explode at any time. Meet the people and wildlife that live […]
Nicknamed the “Aloha State”, The state of Hawaii is located approximately 3,200 km southwest of the contiguous United States in the Pacific Ocean. It is the only American state located outside the North American continent. The eight main islands of Hawaii, namely Hawai’i, Maui, O’ahu, Kaua’i, Moloka’i, Lana’i, Ni’ihau and Kaho’olawe, were formed by volcanic […]
Representative image of the volcanic eruption. (IANS) The eruption of Mount Semeru in East Java province has raised concerns about the status of other active volcanoes across Indonesia, which are home to more than 270 million people. After Mount Semeru erupted on Dec. 4, three volcanoes were on Level Three alert, the second highest, according […]
El Salvador – the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in September – plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”, an entire city that will be funded by Bitcoin bonds and powered by geothermal energy from one of the many volcanoes in the country. , according to The official […]
The mayor of the island of Vulcano, in the Aeolian archipelago of Sicily, has ordered the evacuation of around 150 people and banned tourists due to increased volcanic activity and gas in the area. Last October, the Italian civil protection agency issued an orange alert for the small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 25 […]
A view of the crater of Dotsero volcano, a monogenetic volcano that erupted in Colorado about 4,000 years ago. Credit: Greg Valentine Study presents extensive investigation of monogenetic volcanoes less than 2.58 million years old in the southwestern United States. They were born. They live once, erupting for a period that can last for days, […]
A team of astronauts, engineers and geologists travel to Spain’s Canary Islands, one of Europe’s volcanic hotspots, to learn how to best explore the Moon and Mars during the Pangea de ESA. The participants in this edition are ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, ESA engineer Robin Eccleston and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins, who is part of […]
Hotspot volcanoes, those in which magma from mantle plumes reaches the surface, have long been considered clues to mantle mysteries. Spain’s hot volcanoes the Canary Islands, however, are a magmatic mystery in themselves. The magma from these volcanoes can have very different chemical compositions despite being part of the same volcanic system and in some […]