January 5, 2012
Offbeat Betting: Volcano betting gathering steam
You never quite know when a given volcano is going to erupt — but you can bet on it. Ireland’s biggest bookmaker, Paddy Power, jetted to fame …
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January 5, 2012
Merapi continues to erupt
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi sent another powerful blast of searing ash and rock into the sky again on Wednesday, marking the volcano's most powerful …
January 5, 2012
Hazardous Living: Thirty years after Mount St. Helens exploded
Thirty years ago today, sometime not long after 8:30 a.m. Pacific time, Mount St. Helens explosively erupted. The shock wave from the eruption …
January 5, 2012
Hazardous Living: Iceland afire
When Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting March 20, few people expected it to wind up wreaking havoc on the world’s travel. Yet …
January 5, 2012
Hazardous Living: Guatemala and Ecuador under volcanic siege ... and other hazards
Guatemala's Pacaya volcano and Ecuador’s Tungurahua vociferously erupted on Thursday, wreaking havoc on villages and cities nearby. Pacaya, …
January 5, 2012
Hazardous Living: Good reading - is the apocalypse upon us?
Earthquakes, volcanoes and blizzards, oh my. Is this year anomalous? Has Mother Nature turned on us and decided to shake up the planet? Are we …
January 5, 2012
Glaciers, not eruption: False alarm volcano mystery solved
When deep, long-period earthquakes started shaking the area around the Katla volcano on the southern tip of Iceland in 2001, officials feared it …
January 5, 2012
Fire and ice produced Eyjafjalla's explosion
When an Icelandic volcano with a nearly unpronounceable name erupted after 200 years of quiet in March, it was little more than a curiosity. But …
January 5, 2012
Blogging on EARTH: Second dispatches from EGU
EARTH’s Carolyn Gramling is in Vienna, Austria, at the European Geophysical Union meeting this week. Here are a few more sessions that she has …
January 5, 2012
Blogging on EARTH linkfest: More on the Iceland eruption
Blogging on EARTH: Iceland links and Volcanoes 301 There's a lot of great info out there about the Iceland eruption's geology, if you know where …
January 5, 2012
Beads of water on the moon
During the Apollo missions, NASA astronauts shoveled, bagged and sent back to Earth close to 400 kilograms of lunar rocks and soil. But …
January 5, 2012
Alaska's Mt. Redoubt erupts at last
Blogging on EARTH After months of threatening and rumbling, Mount Redoubt finally erupted late Sunday night. Redoubt began to exhibit increasing …
January 5, 2012
AGU: Mount St. Helens has gone back to sleep
SAN FRANCISCO — After more than three and a half years of continuous eruption, Mount St. Helens in Washington quieted earlier this year. …
January 5, 2012
AGU: Aloha, magma! Geothermal engineers drill into surprising lava
SAN FRANCISCO — While drilling deep into Earth, geothermal engineers struck geological gold, opening a never-before-seen window into a classic …