• Would a large scale eruption (VEI 5 or greater) of Mt. Etna like the ones occurred in 122 BC and 1500 BC (disputed) be possible again in the foreseeable future? (scienceblogs.com)
  • I think it would be great to be able to do the same for future eruptions of Mt. Etna in Sicily, not to mention very instructive. (scienceblogs.com)
  • One intriguing thing at Etna is that the more explosive eruptions in recent millennia have often been related to the very fast uprise of primitive and volatile-rich magma (such as picrite in the 4ka B.P. eruption), and in the past 30-40 years, there is a clear influx of more primitive magma into the feeding system of this volcano. (scienceblogs.com)
  • And, overall, I guess that the probability that we will see a major flank eruption from vents at very low elevation on the flank of Etna - like in 1669 - is much higher than that of a large and potentially devastating explosive eruption. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The only other active volcanoes are Mount Etna and Stromboli in Sicily. (longislandpress.com)
  • There have been around 190 eruptions of Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy. (a-z-animals.com)
  • He had researched volcanoes extensively, observing eruptions at Etna and Stromboli. (raremaps.com)
  • The system was installed on Etna in 2008 and analyzed 59 eruptions in the following 8 years. (un-spider.org)
  • Besides Stromboli, Mount Etna in eastern Sicily bubbles back to life every few months. (pravda.ru)
  • Etna is Italy's highest peak south of the Alps, although the exact height of its summit (currently 10,912 ft, or 3,326 m) varies due to eruptions. (bigthink.com)
  • Major eruption of Mount Etna spews ash on Catania, eastern Sicily's. (strangesounds.org)
  • We think that a new effusive eruption could start in the near future. (decadevolcano.net)
  • Volcanic eruptions arise through three main mechanisms: Gas release under decompression, causing magmatic eruptions Ejection of entrained particles during steam eruptions, causing phreatic eruptions Thermal contraction from chilling on contact with water, causing phreatomagmatic eruptions There are two types of eruptions in terms of activity, explosive eruptions and effusive eruptions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Effusive eruptions, meanwhile, are characterized by the outpouring of lava without significant explosive eruption. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the one extreme there are effusive Hawaiian eruptions, which are characterized by lava fountains and fluid lava flows, which are typically not very dangerous. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hawaiian eruptions are the calmest types of volcanic events, characterized by the effusive eruption of very fluid basalt-type lavas with low gaseous content. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are two types of eruptions in terms of activity, explosive eruptions and effusive eruptions . (wikipedia.org)
  • In late 2002, Stromboli experienced a rare effusive eruption -- an outpouring of lava without the volcano's characteristic explosive activity, which was its first in 17 years. (pravda.ru)
  • At the same time, an effusive eruption opened a crack from 200 meters to 600 meters of altitude. (osi-explorearth.org)
  • Yesterday, June 25, 2019, 11.03pm, the Stromboli volcano had a major eruption at the south-central area of ​​the Stromboli crater terrace. (strangesounds.org)
  • The volcano had another major eruption in 1631 killing 3,500 people. (longislandpress.com)
  • While Stromboli has been continuously erupting for thousands of years, the last major eruption took place in 1921. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Its last major eruption was only seven years ago. (boatinternational.com)
  • As one of the most active volcanoes on the planet , Stromboli in Sicily, Italy, has been steadily erupting since 1932. (a-z-animals.com)
  • One of the most famous explosive volcanoes in the world is Stromboli, located in the Aeolian Islands, off of Sicily . (worldcrunch.com)
  • The Multi-GAS instrument was first tested on Stromboli, a volcano off the north coast of Sicily. (un-spider.org)
  • Lava continued to pour down Stromboli's slopes and into the Mediterranean near Sicily Wednesday as experts continued to monitor eruption activity on one of Europe's most active volcanoes. (pravda.ru)
  • Experts taking helicopter flights over Stromboli and studying data from monitoring devices studding the volcano's slopes said there was no immediate danger to the few hundred residents of the tiny island, 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Sicily. (pravda.ru)
  • The name strombolian results from persistent observation of such activity at Stromboli volcano. (photovolcanica.com)
  • NASA notes that low-level Strombolian activity - named after the Stromboli volcano in Italy - is common at Villarrica. (earth.com)
  • Strombolian eruptions are short, lasting minutes," explains Francisco Delgado, a volcanologist at the University of Chile. (earth.com)
  • The most recent (as at July 15, 2023) eruption began June 7, 2023 and ended June 19, 2023, following a series of earthquakes in which multiple vents spewed lava within Halemaʻumaʻu, the pit crater in the volcano's summit caldera, and built a fissure cinder cone about 40 meters (130 feet) high. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Current eruptions updated through 17 August 2023. (si.edu)
  • Current eruptions updated through 9 June 2023. (si.edu)
  • Current eruptions updated through 14 Apr 2023. (si.edu)
  • An important measure of eruptive strength is the Volcanic Explosivity Index an order-of-magnitude scale, ranging from 0 to 8, that often correlates to eruptive types As of December 2022[update], the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program database of volcanic eruptions in the Holocene Epoch (the last 11,700 years) lists 9,901 confirmed eruptions from 859 volcanoes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Completed review of 2022 eruptions. (si.edu)
  • Intense explosions and large pyroclastic flows took place at Stromboli volcano, Italy on December 4, 2022, generating a small local tsunami. (watchers.news)
  • A violent explosion of the Stromboli volcano occurred on July 3, 2019. (strangesounds.org)
  • Take the sudden eruptions of Mount Ontake in Japan in 2014 and White Island in New Zealand in 2019. (worldcrunch.com)
  • In August 2019, Stromboli oozed lava again, and scientists were able to record a progressive increase in carbon dioxide in the two weeks prior, allowing them to alert the local authorities in a timely manner. (un-spider.org)
  • Stromboli, located in Sicily's Aeolian Islands, is one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, attracting tourists for its pristine black sand beaches. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Phreatic eruptions are driven by the superheating of steam due to the close proximity of magma. (wikipedia.org)
  • Phreatomagmatic eruptions are driven by the direct interaction of magma and water, as opposed to phreatic eruptions, where no fresh magma reaches the surface. (wikipedia.org)
  • Subglacial and phreatic eruptions are defined by their eruptive mechanism, and vary in strength. (wikipedia.org)
  • Historical eruptions were mostly small phreatic eruptions from the Issaikyo volcano at the norther. (volcanodiscovery.com)
  • Mount Marapi eruption: Eleven hikers killed as volcano erupts in Indonesia - Plume of ash reaches 3,000 meters and covers entire villages - 12. (strangesounds.org)
  • The way that this volcano erupts is used as an example by which other eruptions are compared. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Volcanic eruption update: Anak Krakatoa erupts again in Indonesia - Popocatepetl. (strangesounds.org)
  • Stromboli volcano erupts violently in Italy, lashing multiple pyroclastic flows that. (strangesounds.org)
  • Explosive eruptions are characterized by gas-driven explosions that propels magma and tephra. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers tracked the volcano's behavior before and after the eruption: they monitored gases fuming from its crater, steam explosions burst through the ice on top of the volcano, and tremors from magma moving beneath the surface. (un-spider.org)
  • For the most dramatic views, take an evening boat trip to Stromboli, home to one of Italy's three active volcanoes, to watch the thrilling display of night-time explosions. (wishsicily.com)
  • After Rossellini's film brought the jet set to the Aeolians in the 1950s, they chose to buy their houses not on Stromboli but 24km south west on Panarea, a frangipani-scented paradise of film-set romance, with unobscured views of the volcano providing a permanent fireworks display. (boatinternational.com)
  • That provoked big waves of 8 meters which touched Stromboli's and Ginostra's coasts, but also Panarea and Milazzo situated around 60km from Stromboli. (osi-explorearth.org)
  • There are three different types of eruptions: Magmatic eruptions are the most well-observed type of eruption. (wikipedia.org)
  • Magmatic eruptions produce juvenile clasts during explosive decompression from gas release. (wikipedia.org)
  • Magmatic eruptions are the most well-observed type of eruption. (wikipedia.org)
  • These timescales are preserved in igneous rock samples revealed by the compositional variability in minerals and can be used for quantifying magma dynamics in the crust and predicting the temporal variability of the surface expression of active magmatic systems feeding volcanic eruptions. (eos.org)
  • These include volcanoes that form in intraplate settings, such as Hawaii and Cape Verde, and subduction-related magmatic settings, such as Stromboli. (eos.org)
  • Several types of volcanic eruptions-during which lava, tephra (ash, lapilli, volcanic bombs, and volcanic blocks), and assorted gases are expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure-have been distinguished by volcanologists. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some volcanoes exhibit lateral and Fissure eruptions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Eruptions are not centralized at the main summit as with other volcanic types, and often occur at vents around the summit and from fissure vents radiating out of the center. (wikipedia.org)
  • Phase 1 of the eruption (P1, April 8) involved both lava flows and a phreatomagmatic eruption from a fissure located in the NW corner of the caldera. (springer.com)
  • I think the shared experience of the seismicity, fissure vent eruption and explosive eruption - along with all the ramifications of the air traffic stoppage over Europe - was a fascinating phenomenon. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Thanks to numerous geological studies of stromboli, it is possible to follow the 200,000 year history of the volcano much further into the past. (photovolcanica.com)
  • In a few weeks I will be giving a talk here at Denison on the Eyjafjallajökull eruption and especially the aspects of how the eruption unfolded on the web. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Some news from the world of volcanoes: The BBC has a series of videos one the fallout from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption - including a look at the area around the volcano and how the economy has been affected by the eruption. (scienceblogs.com)
  • As I've mentioned, I will be giving a talk here at Denison on the Eyjafjallajökull eruption and how the events unfolded on the internet - specifically, I'm interested in the idea of the general public taking an active role in volcano monitoring. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Between 2004 and 2008, more volcanic activity occurred creating a lava dome in the crater made by the 1980 eruption. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Daily volcanic activity and eruptions: Home Reef submarine volcano (Tonga), Lake. (strangesounds.org)
  • Two notable features that are clearly visible to visitors to stromboli are the steep-sided scree slope (Sciara del fuoco) and the steep cliff under the Pizzo Sopra la Fossa which overlooks the present crater terrace. (photovolcanica.com)
  • Late) Wednesday Whatzits: Hawaiian lava flows, more Katla mongering and a possible eruption at Ruiz? (scienceblogs.com)
  • Or is the volcano slowly "dying" although the last eruption ended in July 2009 has been one of the longest ever recorded? (scienceblogs.com)
  • Determining if a volcano is active usually comes down to the time since the last eruption . (a-z-animals.com)
  • Plus their last eruption date? (a-z-animals.com)
  • The seismic signal associated with the strong eruption lasted about 4 minutes. (strangesounds.org)
  • Reports of a strong eruption on the morning of 26 August were submitted to Stromboli On-line (maintained by Jürg Alean and Roberto Carniel) by a variety of sources, including Gianfranco Cincotta, Franco Iacop, Danielle Cottens, Klaus Jäger, and others. (si.edu)
  • Another strong eruption was noted on 10 October. (si.edu)
  • They range in intensity from the relatively small lava fountains on Hawaii to catastrophic Ultra-Plinian eruption columns more than 30 km (19 mi) high, bigger than the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that buried Pompeii. (wikipedia.org)
  • he skeletal remains of a young woman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. (longislandpress.com)
  • He also had himself lowered into the crater of Vesuvius to view the effects of an eruption, only years after the volcano had killed over 4,000 people in an explosion. (raremaps.com)
  • Covering an area of 459 sq mi (1,190 km2), it's also the largest of Italy's three active volcanoes (the others being Vesuvius and Stromboli). (bigthink.com)
  • Seismicity related to magma movement and the P1 eruption, combined with chamber overpressure associated with basalt injection, may have created a pathway to the surface for the trachyandesite magma and subsequent P2 eruption at a different vent 4 km to the south-southeast. (springer.com)
  • Seismicity detected at the summit of Stromboli during 1999. (si.edu)
  • Stromboli volcano is also known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean. (photovolcanica.com)
  • After five months without any activity, scientists declared the eruption over. (a-z-animals.com)
  • In the last four decades, however, due to the proliferation of new and innovative instruments and techniques, scientists have made progress in forecasting the timing of many volcanic eruptions. (un-spider.org)
  • Scientists started to extensively study volcanic dynamics 40 years ago, when an eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington state, United States of America, killed 57 people. (un-spider.org)
  • Huge volcanic eruption… Scientists warn it's time to prepare even with. (strangesounds.org)
  • An Italian team of scientists, for instance, explored how Copernicus Sentinel-5P and Copernicus Sentinel-2 data could be used to monitor a volcano in Italy called Stromboli, which poses a significant threat to local communities when active. (esa.int)
  • However, Columbia University volcanologists found that the eruption of Costa Rica's Irazú Volcano in 1963 was likely triggered by magma that took a nonstop route from the mantle over just a few months. (wikipedia.org)
  • Blake S (1984) Volatile oversaturation during the evolution of silicic magma chambers as an eruption trigger. (springer.com)
  • La Palma volcanic eruption: They knew magma was accumulating three and. (strangesounds.org)
  • Without pathways to eruption, magma can stall or get stored, but in doing so, it will add stress as the magma body inflates and/or gasses accumulate with the magma. (discovermagazine.com)
  • If enough stress builds, cracks and fissures can open, leading to magma moving rapidly to the surface and you have yourself an eruption. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Magma from this zone rises to around 2 miles (3.5 kilometers) where it can stall or cause an eruption. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Stromboli was observed to be in a particularly violent phase, similar to what it had been in October 2005. (decadevolcano.net)
  • On the other extreme, Plinian eruptions are large, violent, and highly dangerous explosive events. (wikipedia.org)
  • Explosive volcanic eruptions can be so violent and sudden that they catch most monitoring networks by surprise. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Two distinct dyke-like conduit structures are identified, each representative of explosive eruptions from two different vents located near the northern and southern perimeters of the summit crater. (usgs.gov)
  • Stromboli is the northeast Aeolian Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Ferries and hydrofoils which link Stromboli and the six other islands in the Aeolian archipelago were operating, he noted. (pravda.ru)
  • This glow had been visible to Behncke previously during August while passing Stromboli island twice on the ferry connecting the Aeolian Islands with Naples. (si.edu)
  • Stromboli, the NE-most of the Aeolian Islands, has lent its name to the frequent mild explosive activity that has characterized its eruptions throughout much of historical time. (watchers.news)
  • A beautiful eruption of Stromboli (Aeolian islands). (wishsicily.com)
  • the strongest eruptions are called Ultra-Plinian. (wikipedia.org)
  • The paroxysmal phase (P2) began several days later (April 12) with a Plinian-style eruption from a different vent 4 km to the south-southeast. (springer.com)
  • The Campi Flegrei has produced some of the largest explosive eruptions Europe has seen in the past 50,000 years: the ~36,000 year old Campanian Ignimbrite that dumped almost 70 cubic kilometers of volcanic debris across the continent and the ~15,000 year old Neapolitan Yellow Tuff that added another 40 cubic kilometers on top. (discovermagazine.com)
  • If you are someone living in Pozzuoli, a city of over 350,000 that more or less exists inside the caldera of Campi Flegrei, you likely would love to know when the next eruption will happen. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Today's Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features the Villarrica volcano in Chile, where steam and other gases are visible after a series of eruptions in recent months. (earth.com)
  • Modelling of Very-Long-Period (VLP) seismic data recorded during explosive activity at Stromboli in 1997 provides an image of the uppermost 1 km of its volcanic plumbing system. (usgs.gov)
  • Notably, many Hawaiian eruptions start from rift zones. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hawaiian eruptions are a type of volcanic eruption named after the Hawaiian volcanoes, such as Mauna Loa, with this eruptive type is hallmark. (wikipedia.org)
  • The volume of ejected material from Hawaiian eruptions is less than half of that found in other eruptive types. (wikipedia.org)
  • So, I ask you readers: How would you describe your experience on Eruptions during the Eyjafjallajökull events? (scienceblogs.com)
  • One of the commemorate Eyjafjallajökull ash stamps being issued by the Icelandic Post - made with ash from the eruption itself. (scienceblogs.com)
  • However, things seem pretty quiet at the summit of the Eyjafjallajökull summit where snow can begun to settle without melting - and the Icelandic Met Office appears to think that the eruption is more or less (but not officially) over. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The volume of the landslide is estimated at over 0.7 cubic kilometers and involved detachment of a section of the NE slope of stromboli from a height of about 800m down to a similar depth under the sea. (photovolcanica.com)
  • Some volcanoes may exhibit only one characteristic type of eruption during a period of activity, while others may display an entire sequence of types all in one eruptive series. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Neostromboli eruptive period from about 13 000 to 5 000 years ago was followed by formation of the modern Stromboli edifice. (watchers.news)
  • The August 1991 eruptions of Hudson volcano produced ~2.7 km 3 (dense rock equivalent, DRE) of basaltic to trachyandesitic pyroclastic deposits, making it one of the largest historical eruptions in South America. (springer.com)
  • Tephra from the 1991 eruption ranges in composition from basalt (phase 1) to trachyandesite (phase 2), with a distinct gap between the two erupted phases from 54-60 wt% SiO 2 . (springer.com)
  • Bitschene PR, Fernández MI (1995) Volcanology and petrology of fallout ashes from the August 1991 eruption of the Hudson Volcano (Patagonian Andes). (springer.com)
  • Bitschene PR, Fernández MI, Arias N, Arizmendi A, Griznik M, Nillni A (1993) Volcanology and environmental impact of the August 1991 eruption of the Hudson volcano (Patagonian Andes, Chile). (springer.com)
  • Range of 56-88 total eruptions per year since 1991. (si.edu)
  • Explosion on Stromboli in 3D, shot on Pizzo. (3dstreaming.org)
  • The eruption was accompanied by a strong deformation signal, with more than 1 minutes of inflation before the explosion. (strangesounds.org)
  • These small basaltic eruptions happen when a big bubble of water vapor fragments the lava. (earth.com)
  • The Volcanoes of the World database is a catalog of Holocene and Pleistocene volcanoes, and eruptions from the past 12,000 years. (si.edu)
  • The Yellowstone Caldera in Yellowstone National Park was created at least 631,000 years ago by a massive eruption resulting from a volcanic hotspot. (a-z-animals.com)
  • The youngest eruption in the caldera occurred in 1958 and built a small scoria cone. (eos.org)
  • The northernmost and easternmost island of the archipelago, Stromboli emerges out of the blue like a single smoking breast of some oceanic behemoth submerged beneath. (boatinternational.com)
  • On the early evening of the 17th June 2021 there began a series of continual and exceptionally powerful eruptions of Stromboli. (adambutler.com)
  • if anything it is now in one of its most vigorous and intense moments during recorded history, and indeed some of us are well aware that eruptions like in 122 B.C. or - if we don't want to cite the disputed 1500 B.C. event - about 4000 years ago (Coltelli et al. (scienceblogs.com)
  • 101 eruptions 5 years or longer. (si.edu)
  • It was the biggest eruption for 700 years but. (strangesounds.org)
  • Twice over the past 73 years of restlessness, thousands of people were evacuated because there were sufficient signs of a potential eruption. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Since 3 000 years, Stromboli is in a perpetual activity. (osi-explorearth.org)
  • Stromboli is very active -- enough to give its name to any kind of gassy, rather pretty but usually low-level eruption. (talkweather.com)
  • Stromboli is the most active volcano of the Eolian arc. (cea.fr)
  • Asama (or Asamayama) volcano is the most active volcano of Honshu and one of the volcanoes with the longest recorded history of documented eruptions. (volcanodiscovery.com)
  • We stood on the lip of a large bowl, in the bottom of which snuggled Stromboli's trio of active cones gurgling, hissing, steaming, and growling in between eruptions. (reidsguides.com)
  • The town of Stromboli, seen from the start of the hike up the mountain Stromboli is the most active volcano in Europe and looks every inch the part: a perfect cone of a mountain jutting 3,055 feet from the sea, with smoke trailing from its summit and some 400 hardy souls living in whitewashed cube homes barnacled along the shoreline. (reidsguides.com)
  • Strong explosive eruption at Shishaldin volcano, ash reaches 12.8 km (42 000 feet) a.s.l. (watchers.news)
  • This is thought to be due to the fact that the Upper Vancori collapse introduced a plane of weakness into the volcano but also due to the gradual shift in activity from lava emission toward explosive eruption of pyroclasts as seen in the present day. (photovolcanica.com)
  • The most important eruption in Stromboli's history and the most impressive of the 20th Century. (osi-explorearth.org)
  • Report on Stromboli (Italy) (Wunderman, R., ed. (si.edu)
  • In 1980, 1,300 feet of the summit came down the mountain as an avalanche as a result of a massive eruption . (a-z-animals.com)
  • Officially, you can't climb Stromboli without a guide, but the rule is rarely enforced, and guided groups spend only a few hours at the summit, coming down at sunset. (reidsguides.com)
  • Neither eruption was unusually powerful . (nasa.gov)
  • Danielle Cottens reported via Stromboli On-line that while she was on the Pizzo around 1830 on 10 October the volcano was showing intense activity, with bombs often reaching the base of the Pizzo. (si.edu)
  • Stromboli Island with San Vincenzo village at base of volcano. (photovolcanica.com)
  • Much of the island has been blackened from the constant stream of volcanic eruptions, however, the north-eastern region of Stromboli remains untouched, remaining fully inhabited throughout the centuries and demonstrates the appeal emanating from the charming cafes and welcoming restaurants. (directferries.co.uk)
  • Sailings from Stromboli are operated by numerous ferry companies. (directferries.co.uk)
  • There are up to 34 ferry crossings daily from Stromboli with sailing durations starting from 10 minutes. (directferries.co.uk)
  • Our Stromboli ferry summary provides a good guide but for the latest sailing information use our fare search. (directferries.co.uk)
  • If you're looking to spend a night at or near Stromboli Ferry port before or after your trip or if you are looking for accommodation for your entire stay, please visit our Stromboli Accommodation page for the best accommodation prices and one of the largest selections available online! (directferries.co.uk)