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Recent Volcanic Activity
Several volcanoes have erupted in the past few months - two in Chile (Chaiten and Llaima) and one in Alaska (Okmok). At any given time, approximately 20 to 50 volcanoes are active worldwide (depending on the definition of "active"). Collected here are photos of volcanic events from the the past several years, seen from many angles, including low Earth Orbit. (15 photos total)
In this photo released by Sernageomin-Onemi, Lava explodes from the Llaima volcano, one of Chile's most active volcanoes, in Cherquenco, Chile, early Thursday, July 10, 2008. The 9,400-foot (3,120-meter) volcano grew more dangerous after activity had decreased in recent days.(AP Photo/Sernageomin-Onemi)
This image released by Alaska Volcano Observatory on Sunday July 13, 2008 shows the Okmok Caldera in Alaska as viewed from an Alaska Airlines jet in early June, 2007. The 3,500-foot Okmok Caldera, which consists of a 6-mile-wide circular crater about 1,600 feet deep, erupted with little warning Saturday morning July 12, 2008, just hours after seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Center began detecting a series of small tremors. (AP Photo/ Alaska Volcano Observatory)
In an Image provided by NASA, the Terra satellite captured this image July 13, 2008, of the Okmok Caldera erupting on Umnak Island in Alaska. Viewed through a break in the clouds, Both a steam plume, right, and an ash plume emanate from the volcano. The blue-green color of the nearby ocean water may result from volcanic ashfall. (AP Photo/NASA)
This photo of a plume of ash rising through a cloud layer over Chaiten, Chile was taken from aboard the International Space Station on May 5th, 2008. (Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center)
Army Staff Sgt. Edward Lee (cq), left, and Army Staff Sgt. Tremaine Jackson (cq), walk toward the shore of a small island in front of the Rabaul volcano, near Kokopo, Papua New Guinea on Sunday, April 13, 2008. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)
The crew of the International Space Station observed Mt. Etna's eruption on October 30th, 2002. This image and the one below are looking obliquely to the southeast over the island of Sicily. (Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center)
The crew of the International Space Station observed Mt. Etna's eruption on October 30th, 2002. The lighter-colored plumes downslope and north of the summit are produced by forest fires set by lava flowing into the pine forests on the slope of the mountain. (Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center)
Alaska's Mt Augustine viewed from aboard the M/V Maritime Maid on March 27, 2006 (Cyrus Read / AVO/USGS)
In this photo released by Intendencia Regional de Los Lagos, the Chaiten volcano erupts, near Chaiten, in southern Chile, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. The volcano has regained strength with bursts of thick gas, seismic rumblings and the emergence of two new craters, authorities said on Friday, June 13. It erupted May 2 and has forced the evacuation of 4,500 residents form the nearby village of Chaiten. The village has since been heavily damaged by the overflowing Blanco River, its water thickened by ash from the volcano. (AP Photo/Christian Brown, Intendencia Regional de Los Lagos )
Russia's Kliuchevskoi Volcano, seen erupting on September 30, 1994. Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour snapped photos as the eruption cloud reached 60,000 feet above sea level, and the winds carried ash as far as 640 miles southeast. (Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center)
Soputan volcano spews thick smoke and heat clouds in Minahasa on June 6, 2008. Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi started to erupt the morning of June 6th, throwing ash two kilometers into the air. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Alaska's Mt. Augustine viewed at first light on March 26, 2006, from the M/V Maritime Maid. (Cyrus Read / AVO/USGS)
Russia's Kliuchevskoi Volcano, seen erupting from 115 nautical miles above Earth on September 30, 1994. Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour captured this image of the Earth's limb, and Kliuchevskoi's ash plume spreading out across the Pacific Ocean. (Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center)
Steam rises from the waters surrounding nearby Rabaul volcano, in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea on Sunday, April 13, 2008. (Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe Staff)
The crewmembers of the Space Shuttle Endeavour used a 35mm still camera to record this image of Mt. Etna Volcano erupting on the island of Sicily on December 14th, 2002. The oblique, south-looking view shows Mt. Etna's dark ash plume rising above the general altitude of storm clouds over the Mediterranean Sea at sunset. (Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center)
Links and more information:
Chile moves people from path of volcano lava - boston.com 7/1
Debris litters area after Alaska volcano erupts - boston.com 7/14
Volcanoes gallery from NASA's Visible Earth collection
How many active volcanoes are there in the world? - Global Volcanism Program
Volcano World - volcanic activity blog
This blogger might want to review your comment before posting it.
I am so glad I found this blog. Truly a bright spot to my day.
Claudio -- I tracked down picture #8 at the Alaska Volcano Observatory site. You can find an full-size image there:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/image.php?id=9099
If you believe in the unproven, scientific Co2 model theory, (that's right, folks, it's only a theory), then you should believe in this scientific mass extinction theory also.
Death in the deep - Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction
The June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo was global. Slightly cooler than usual temperatures recorded worldwide...The sulfur dioxide (SO2) in this cloud -- about 22 million tons -- combined with water to form droplets of sulfuric acid, blocking some of the sunlight from reaching the Earth and thereby cooling temperatures in some regions...
From: Description - volcanoes and weather
Just because we emit CO2 doesn't mean we are causing Global Warming. Natural processes have a much greater effect on climate than we humans do. If sunlight is blocked by ash and SO2, then there is no heat for the CO2 to trap.
BTW I LOVE THIS BLOG!!!
What an awesome group of photos...I wonder how these affect global warming though...a 10 mile high plume of sulfer and carbon dioxide makes my SUV seem totally insignificant.
For those who claim that it is not sure we are causing GB: We are polluting our environment and it is going to cause problems.
FYI: "These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,[4] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[5][6][7] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with some findings of the IPCC,[8] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[9][10]" - Wikipedia - BTW - PLEASE, read the references before you post.
Thanks again Alan.
In 1999 there were 671,358,000 motor vehicles registered worldwide. an average car emits around 200g of CO2 per KM (BMW 1 series 1,8ltrs). If I calculate with 30 kms per day average, it means 1,102 million tons of CO2 every year only by automobiles. For comparison: Volcanos emit 130 million tons every year...
you should include Mount Merapi, in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia....it is the most active volcano in Indonesia...
#36
"did thos savages swim to safetyt from the volcanos? they must be very good swimers"
I like the word savage for military people ... it gaves an other perspective !
Etna'photos are gorgeous!!!
Giò
http://pampafamily.homeip.net/photoblog/oculus/
Gorgeous. So gorgeous.
Ten years ago, they were saying that the Chlorine emitted by volcanos didn't reach altitudes high enough to affect the ozone layer. Now these same people are saying that the CO2 emitted by human activity is causing the temperature of the earth to climb. I think too many people have bought into the "Science of Panic".
How do we figure out that the Bush administration caused these too.
Its amazing what lies beneath the earth. The many wonders of the world. Let's all pray that the volcanoes of the world don't all erupt at the same time with fury.
52. Now lets see, how are we going to figure how many "carbon credits" we can squeeze out of these, oh wait, the volcanoe spilling CO2, thats just a theory.
"Just here to remind you that global warming has been incresed due to human activity. It's been proven time &time again"
This is a very dangerous propoganda generated by a liberal media. Are you a scientist? Show me the proof!! There is none! What do you mean it has been proven. The actual scientific facts show that the planet is rapidly cooling off. And there is scientific proof to support that. As we near the end of this interglacial warm period the climate will become very wild until the cold settles in.
Folks, Al Gore is a politician. He has no scientific training or education, he just talks about his own beliefs. Don't fall for it. When the last Ice age started there was 10 times the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere than today. We know this from ancient ice samples taken from Antarctica and Greenland. Where were all the cars then?
Oh well...idiots follow idiots just on their word. Sad isn't it!
Great pics of the volcanoes. Awesome.
Beautiful photos, forget the politics and open your eyes, these volcanoes might prove that the earth heats up from within IMO. If volcanoes are bubbling under the ice caps then the oceans get warmer and ice melts. Mankind doesn't help the outcome by drilling for oil and gas and leaving great holes everywhere. Imagine if we could tap the heat and energy from the lava flows under our feet. Cheap renewable energy for heating. Lovely.
IF there was 10 times more CO2 in our atmosphere than today when the last ice age started then it must have been aided by volcanic activity. That seems to be good enough reason to monitor and try not to add to CO2 amounts now. Facinating pictures, thank you for posting them.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a place for you on it's staff.........
unbelievable that was so kool
@Marcus Moran
I guess the people at Kyoto were all idiots, and there were no scientist at all, right?
I love the people who fall for media as well...
These shots make me want to build a space ship to take my own snaps.
and...
Well played to poster #8, 'Someone call Al Gore, quick!', by FearOfAWarmPlanet ( a clever pun referencing Public Enemy I assume)! It's too interesting that his/her comment sparked the Global Warming topic and he/she wasn't even trolling... Jesus just laugh. To poster #53 /wrists and spare us the rhetoric.
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The power and the glory of gods creation.
thank you
thank you for sharing, GREAT PICTURES!!!!
keep it the site.....Please.
Pics are great .My first time on this site and I'm at awe to mother nature. Now, I'm really wondering why, the global warming: is it this natural phenomenon? or is it us. I believed logically, it's nature. No matter what we humans put out, nature takes care of it.
The North Pole added one half million acres of ice in the last year! Al Gore has cost this country thousands of jobs and sent trillions to the opec country's, who don't like us. When will we get our heads out of the sand!
That space photo of the smoking volcano..... just wowed me. I'm speechless.
"again proving that we mustn;t mess with Mother Nature" great pictures
God made wonderful sights, very impressive, God is powerful and greater
PRAISE GOD
OBVIOUSLY these volcanoes are caused by GLOBAL WARMING. Anyone who denies this is the moral equivalent of a NAZI!
Great photos! Good post!
Mother Nature sure puts on an amazing spectacle, doesn't she? Thanks very much for the great photo collection.
@ #66 (Louise): No sky fairy was involved in creating any of these volcanoes. Trust me on that one.
@63 dennis
"Al Gore has cost this country thousands of jobs and sent trillions to the opec country's, who don't like us."
huh? How has Al Gore sent trillions to opec?
"We expect [emmisions] warm our world because we already KNOW that the naturally occurring greenhouse effect is the only thing that warms our world enough to keep it from freezing over.
Thus, if we strengthen the greenhouse effect further, we should expect the world to warm up even more.
Further proof comes from Venus, where we KNOW that a far stronger greenhouse effect turns the planet into a veritable hell. Is there any possibility that we could keep dumping gases into the atmosphere WITHOUT it EVENTUALLY causing our planet to warm up? No. Period."
CO2 concentrations.
400,000 years ago: 280 ppm
350,000 years ago: 210 ppm
115,000 years ago: 280 ppm
40,000 years ago: 200 ppm
1750 AD: 280 ppm
2008: 360 ppm
From Jeffrey Bennett, astrobiologist
i jus
If you think the soldiers swimming in front of Rabaul is blase, there is a famous picture of some West Indian guys playing cricket in front of a pyroclastic flow in the background, on the island of Montserrat when it erupted in 1997!
The picture's were great. How do they get the real life picture's and get out quickly?
wow they are well smokey!!!
I'm amazed by the pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maravilhoso .. a força da natureza sempre nos surpreende.
SOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOL
amazing!
The world is more worried about global warming and the volcanos erupting than about the lives that are at stake. Those pictures are incredible but do you understand that those"savages" are actual human beings created by God and instead of calling the pictures amazing and the people "savages" maybe we should help those people. The people must be helped and it seems wrong that nobody mentioned how sad it is that those people's livelihoods are now being destroyed. We should stop complaining about the global warming issue and more about the lives at stake. More importantly why in the world are we saying Mother Nature, who doesnt exist,caused this. God created this in 7 days and the Bible was written by people who lived then and know more about that time period. Scientists can only find logic and that logic provides no hope and no purpose to us. If scientists were right then the whole world would be "savages". The Bible is true therefore nobody but God created it and evelution is not true. Prove me wrong or prove me never.
these pics are awesome!!!!!!! itslike you are there looking at them explode!!!!!
wow when i first seen those pictures i was so scared and i just could not not look at it but its natruls where people get scared and they gets so much a fright from seein those volcanoes and they also know and guess what i said that .
I am a first timer to this kind of satellite images. There is a lot to admire & learn
wow its see to horrible i am never seen this pictures yet i am see the first time ever.
Wonderful! Gives us more.
oh my god! amazinggg
Response to comment #34, Claudio. If you right click on the photo and go to "set as background" you will have your picture on your desktop!
They sure are amazing!
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Perfect job,
tkank you,
could I use these pictures for my student education (in geography)?
Marian Rybansky
WOW! Look at those volcanoes erupting! Hate to live there though....
WELL I AM SORRY BECAUSE THEY ARE SOME BAD VOLCANOES
This is sooooooooo pretty
I have a project on volcanoes, and these photoes are a lot of help!
very interesting
#gasp# OMG
that was allsome amd cooliest ting i ever seen
wooooooooooooooooooooooow thats amzing thanks
wow grabe the best picture!!!!makaka2long 2 sa project ko thanksss hahh!!!
Wow..........Those volcanos are realy cool!!! I would like to see a volcano in person.oh! I forgot thanks for the pictures now I have a good report!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
waaw...i never seen a best volcanoes picture like this...
its so much great...amazing !!!
waaw...i never seen a best volcanoes picture like this...
its so much great...amazing !!!
My 5 year old daughter Nima asked me to look at volcanos,with every picture we let out an OOOOOHHH,AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! All I can say is AMAZING! Our favorite was #11 Can you see the face in the smoke?AMAZING!
wow how amazing these are i love this site
the pics are really very cool... no other site has such good pics...
i love volacano's!:D
It seems like you guys are more concerned with the pix than what's really going on with this planet. Here it is Feb. of 2009, and the volcanos seem to be waking up all over the world. I know its a living thing, this planet, but it just seems like a whole lot more volcanos than before.
cool
that was one of the most coolest times of my life!!!!...
wow
Dangerously nice natural event !
If Hell is in the center of the earth and if we keep inviting demons out to be with us instead of commanding them to go back into hell where they belong, would this be a sign that sin is becoming more prevalant in our world? Just thought I'd throw out a theoretical question. Interesting!!!
Very good pictures
They are interesting
:D
wow
Mother Earth is just doing what she has done for millions of years. Now I understand how thick and heavy the plume is and why so many people suffer down wind from it. Amazing pictures to see so I will share the site with my family. Thank you.
VOLCANOES !
Stunning pics. I'll be recommending this site to everyone.
OMG! These photos are ssooo cool...
Beautiful pictures -- kind of makes you wish you were there to see it. Only thing I would like to have seen added is the length of these clouds of ash -- must be hundreds of miles. As far as Al Gore and the other idiots screaming about Global Warming - bring your butts up here in Northern Michigan in February -- I'll show you exactly what Global Warming is - HAHAHA!!!
i didn't find what i wanted
I love your imiages of those volcanoes.There so interesting. The best one i like is YOON S. BYUN. I THINK YOU SHOULD PUT MORE PIC IF YOU WANT ME TO LOOK AT THEM MORE OFTEN. THEY WERE SUPER ASOME PICTURES YOU KNOW. ITS LIKE OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND YET I DIDN'T FIND WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.BY BY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is such a cool web site
why dont u put earthquakes events 2
hats off to the person who uploaded this
There is no doubt that we can do more to clean the air. I also think Global Warming is real... it started about 10,000 or more years ago. Where I live, there was an ice sheet 3,000 feet thick not that long ago. Would I rather have a temperature .6 degrees higher than 10 years ago, or would I want an ice sheet a mile thick?
But lets go after the really big polluters... China, India, and most of the 3rd world. Remember it's Global, not just the US. Lets restrict our dollars unless these other countries can get to our standards.
wow coooool pics i have ever see such amazing pics
Truley a natural wonder showing the power and forces of nature on our beautiful planet. Something to be respected. An experience even more so of a wonder wheen witnessed daily from your home town Rabaul. If you haven't lived it, the adrenaline and respect for devistation that they can bestow. Awesome pictures.
wow
there could be more pictures of different volcanoes as i could only copy 7 for my homework.
To number 67...
Have you ever been in geography? What are you, an idiot?
Volcanoes are NOT the result of global warming. Quite the opposite; they are natures creations and are caused by the moving plates of the Earth and the convectional currents in the mantle (the hot, magma filled area beneath the plates)
Go learn something.
On a happier note (n=maybe not so for the people they killed) these photos are awesome!
Those people must be very brave :D
these are the most exteme valcanic valcanoes i have ever seen.i wish I could see a valcano in real life.if i saw a valcano in real life i would see mt. augestine. If you saw a valcano in real life, which one would you see.these valcano pics are tobeler,if you don't know what that means it means that it is cool.my sister said "these valcano pics are cool".well i say they are active.do you know what a summit is,the highest point of a mt,valcano.a crater is the circle in the valcano.never go in a valcano because it is very hot and steamy,well thats what my friend said.i think valcanoes are very cooooooooool
volcans can be very danger because a lot of people can die from all that ash in the air and you can't breath
These pictures are really well taken!
this site is so incredible!! like u dont even know how awesomeeeeeeeee it is. OMG I LOVE THIS SITE!!! IT ROCKSSS. nice quality pictures.
i love this site it is awsome although all of those pics are really cool i like the one were it shows the pic from outer space and it shows the ash cloud all the way across the sea
gooood photos