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Monday, September 15 2008

Mount Etna

By Graeme on Monday, September 15 2008, 15:02

Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, south of Italy. It is the largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing 3 329 m high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21 m lower now than it was in 1981. Etna covers an area of 1 190 km² with a basal circumference of 140 km. This makes it by far the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, being about two and a half times the height of the next largest, Mount Vesuvius, wich is near Naples.

Mount Etna

Mount Etna - Valle del Bove

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Mount Etna - eruption seen from the International Space Station

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Mount Etna - smoke seen from space

Map of Mount Etna :


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Source : Wikipedia

Thursday, October 25 2007

Popocatépetl

By Graeme on Thursday, October 25 2007, 09:37

Popocatépetl from space on January 23, 2001, with Iztaccíhuatl at right and the city of Puebla at left. View from the International Space Station.


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Popocatépetl is an active volcano located south of Mexico city. His elevation is 5 426 metres, and he is the second highest point in Mexico.

Source : Wikipedia

Tuesday, April 10 2007

Piton de la Fournaise

By Graeme on Tuesday, April 10 2007, 11:48

Piton de la Fournaise (French: "Peak of the Furnace") is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island (a French territory) in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands (Pacific Ocean) and Mount Erebus in Antarctica. A recent eruption began in August 2006 and ended in January 2007. The volcano erupted again in February 2007, and most recently on 2 April 2007.

Piton de la Fournaise is often known locally as le Volcan (The Volcano); it is a major tourist attraction on Réunion island.

Source : Wikipedia

Monday, February 26 2007

Karymsky, Kamtchatka

By Graeme on Monday, February 26 2007, 05:15


Image : Yann Arthus Bertrand

Karymsky is a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It is the most active volcano of Kamchatka's eastern volcanic zone, is a symmetrical stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera that formed during the early Holocene. Much of the cone is mantled by lava flows less than 200 years old. Historical eruptions have been vulcanian or vulcanian-strombolian with moderate explosive activity and occasional lava flows from the summit crater.

Sources : Wikipedia, Yann Arthus Bertrand

Thursday, October 5 2006

Mahameru

By Graeme on Thursday, October 5 2006, 04:38

Semeru is the tallest mountain on the island of Java and one of its most active volcanoes. Known also as Mahameru (Great Mountain), it is very steep and rises abruptly above the coastal plains of eastern Java. Semeru lies at the south end of the Tengger Volcanic Complex.

Semeru's eruptive history is extensive. Since 1818, at least 55 eruptions have been recorded (10 of which resulted in fatalities) consisting of both lava flows and pyroclastic flows. Moderate explosive eruptions (VEI 2-3) have also been recorded with some regularity.

Semeru has been in a state of near-constant eruption from 1967 to the present. At times, small eruptions happen every 10 minutes or so.

Semeru is regularly climbed by tourists, usually starting from the village of Rano Pani to the north, but though non-technical it can be dangerous. Soe Hok Gie, an Indonesian political activist of the 1960s died in 1969 from inhaling poisonous gas while hiking on Mount Semeru.

Source : Wikipedia