SI/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report 18-24 November 2009 26 November 2009
Posted by admin in Batu Tara, Caribbean, Chaitén, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Galeras, Guatemala, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, Kamchatka, Karymsky, Kilauea, Kliuchevskoi, Mexico, Pacaya, Papua New Guinea, Popocatépetl, Rabaul, Reventador, Russia, Sakura-jima, Santa María, Sarychev Peak, Shiveluch, Soufrière Hills, Suwanose-jima, United States, Weekly Volcanic Activity Reports, activity reports, eruptions.Tags: Global Volcanism Program, volcanic activity reports, volcanic eruptions
add a comment
Click on the map for a larger version (1280 x 898 pixels).
The Smithsonian Institution/United States Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 18-24 November 2009 is available on the Global Volcanism Program website. The following is a summary and not a substitute for the full report.
- The current report: Weekly Volcanic Activity Report.
- Previous reports: Weekly Reports Archive.
- The SI/USGS map of volcanoes discussed this week.
New activity/unrest: Galeras (Colombia), Sarychev Peak (Russia).
Ongoing activity: Batu Tara (Indonesia), Chaitén (Chile), Karymsky (Russia), Kilauea (Hawaii, USA), Kliuchevskoi (Russia), Pacaya (Guatemala), Popocatépetl (Mexico), Rabaul (Papua New Guinea), Reventador (Ecuador), Sakura-jima (Japan), Santa María (Guatemala), Shiveluch (Russia), Soufrière Hills (Montserrat), Suwanose-jima (Japan).
Volcanoes and earthquakes make Russia even bigger 17 November 2009
Posted by admin in Russia, Sarychev Peak.Tags: Russia, Sakhalin, Sarychev Peak
add a comment
Already the largest country on the planet, Russia has become even bigger over the past couple of years thanks to the workings of plate tectonics in the Russian Far East. Sakhalin Island was struck by earthquakes on 2 August 2007 (some pictures here) which added ~3 square kilometers of new territory through uplift, while lava flows from the Sarychev Peak eruption of June 2009 (stunning image here) enlarged Matua Island in the Russian Kurils by 1.5 square kilometres.
The appearance of new land through volcanism has caused international tension in the past, but fortunately there are no such complications this time.
SI/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 8-14 July 2009 15 July 2009
Posted by admin in Africa, Alaska, Batu Tara, Chaitén, Chile, Dukono, Fuego, Guatemala, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, Kamchatka, Kilauea, Manda Hararo, Pacaya, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Sakura-jima, San Miguel, Sarychev Peak, Shishaldin, Shiveluch, United States, Weekly Volcanic Activity Reports, activity reports, eruptions.Tags: Global Volcanism Program, volcanic activity reports, volcanic eruptions
comments closed
The Smithsonian Institution/United States Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 8-14 July 2009 is available on the Global Volcanism Program website. The following is a summary and not a substitute for the full report.
- The current report: Weekly Volcanic Activity Report.
- Previous reports: Weekly Reports Archive.
- The SI/USGS map of volcanoes discussed this week.
New activity: Manda Hararo (Ethiopia), Mayon (Philippines), San Miguel (El Salvador), Sarychev Peak (Russia), Shishaldin (Alaska, USA).
Ongoing Activity: Batu Tara (Indonesia), Chaitén (Chile), Dukono (Indonesia), Fuego (Guatemala), Kilauea (Hawaii, USA), Pacaya (Guatemala), Rabaul (Papua New Guinea), Sakura-jima (Japan), Shiveluch (Russia).
Sarychev Peak SO2 emissions 13 July 2009
Posted by admin in Russia, Sarychev Peak, activity reports, eruptions.Tags: Kuril Islands, Russia, Sarychev Peak, sulphur dioxide, volcanic activity reports
comments closed
A sulphur dioxide cloud emitted by Sarychev Peak volcano in the central Kurils can be seen on the NOAA Kamchatka map compiled from OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) data early today:
[Click on the image above to enlarge.]
The SVERT update on Sarychev Peak for 13 July 2009 reports low-level activity with gas emission but no ash explosions: ‘According to satellite images from today, (MODIS 0907130031UTC), (NOAA 17 0907122247 UTC) ash-gas emission is observed at Sarychev volcano. It stretches east 40 km’. The gas cloud visible in the north-west of the Sea of Okhotsk is the residue of that emitted by Sarychev Peak earlier this month (e.g., see the update on 9 July 2009).
[Thanks to Volcanism Blog reader Gijs de Reijke for spotting this SO2 data.]
For all our Sarychev Peak coverage: Sarychev Peak « The Volcanism Blog.
SI/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 1-7 July 2009 13 July 2009
Posted by admin in Africa, Batu Tara, Chaitén, Chile, Dukono, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, Kamchatka, Kilauea, Krakatau, Manda Hararo, Mayon, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Rabaul, Russia, Sakura-jima, San Miguel, Santa María, Sarychev Peak, Shiveluch, Suwanose-jima, Tungurahua, Ubinas, United States, Weekly Volcanic Activity Reports, activity reports, eruptions.Tags: Global Volcanism Program, volcanic activity reports, volcanic eruptions
comments closed
The Smithsonian Institution/United States Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 1-7 July 2009 is available on the Global Volcanism Program website. The following is a summary and not a substitute for the full report.
- The current report: Weekly Volcanic Activity Report.
- Previous reports: Weekly Reports Archive.
- The SI/USGS map of volcanoes discussed this week.
New activity: Manda Hararo (Ethiopia), Mayon (Philippines), San Miguel (El Salvador), Sarychev Peak (Russia).
Ongoing Activity: Batu Tara (Indonesia), Chaitén (Chile), Dukono (Indonesia), Kilauea (Hawaii, USA), Krakatau (Indonesia), Rabaul (Papua New Guinea), Sakura-jima (Japan), Santa María (Guatemala), Shiveluch (Russia), Suwanose-jima (Japan), Tungurahua (Ecuador), Ubinas (Peru).
Sarychev Peak update, 24 June 2009 24 June 2009
Posted by admin in Russia, Sarychev Peak, activity reports, eruptions.Tags: Kharimkotan, Kuril Islands, Russia, Sarychev Peak, Severgin, volcanic activity reports, volcanic eruptions
comments closed
The eruption at Sarychev Peak in the Kurils appears to be on the wane, with no visible emissions cloud reported in the latest Volcanic Ash Advisory from Tokyo VAAC, issued at 02:52 GMT yesterday, 23 June 2009.
The Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team reported a steam and gas plume extending 120 km south of the volcano on 20 June, a ‘high’ (1.5 km altitude) steam and gas emission stretching 7 km north-west and an intense thermal anomaly on 21 June, a steam and gas plume extending 29 km north at 1.5 km altitude on 22 June, and a 9-km-long steam and gas plume extending north-west and an intense thermal anomaly on 24 June.
Incidentally SVERT also notes possible ‘increasing of steam-gas activity’ at Severgin volcano in its 22 June bulletin, and a thermal anomaly at the same volcano on 24 June. Severgin was the central cone of a volcano on the island of Kharimkotan in the northern Kurils, which destroyed itself in a VEI=5 eruption in 1933. This, the GVP notes, was ‘one of the largest [eruptions] in the Kuril Islands during historical time’. The island shows evidence of repeated slope-failures and collapses precipitating debris avalanches into the sea. The 1933 collapse of Severgin produced a tsunami that reached Paramushir, ~150 km to the north.
For all our Sarychev Peak coverage: Sarychev Peak « The Volcanism Blog.
Information
Global Volcanism Program: Sarychev Peak – summary information for Sarychev Peak (0900-24=)
Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team (SVERT) – organization monitoring Kuril volcanoes
SVERT status reports – current and archived alerts and status reports
Stunning Sarychev Peak picture from the NASA Earth Observatory 19 June 2009
Posted by admin in NASA Earth Observatory, Russia, Sarychev Peak, volcano images.Tags: NASA Earth Observatory, Russia, Sarychev Peak, satellite images, volcano images
comments closed
The people at the NASA Earth Observatory have been doing a wonderful job of covering the current eruption at Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands, but they have really excelled themselves with their latest image: this stunning astronaut photograph of the volcano taken from the International Space Station on 12 June 2009, at an early stage of this eruption. There’s so much of interest to talk about here: the dark ashy plume punching upwards through the atmosphere almost vertically (little shearing wind at this stage), the pileus or cap of white cloud atop the plume, the pyroclastic flows ringing the volcano’s peak, and the neat circle in the surrounding cloud that has been the focus of much discussion among commenters over at Eruptions. Mostly, though, one just wants to sit back and look at this picture and go ‘WOW’.
Here’s a detail taken from the large version of the image. The light-coloured pyroclastic flow descending the volcano’s flanks towards the bottom of the image is an absolute beauty:
The original (un-rotated and un-cropped) image can be found at the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of the Earth.
NASA Earth Observatory: Sarychev Peak eruption, Kuril Islands (18 June 2009)
[Date corrected to 12 June - got so excited over the image, I'd put July. Thanks, Martin!]
UPDATE: The image above is just one of thirty pictures of the eruption taken from the International Space Station. Boris Behncke has submitted a very helpful comment explaining how to get hold of all of them via the Gateway to Astronaut Photography: check out his comment below for the instructions.
FURTHER UPDATE (25 June 2009): This dramatic image has achieved very wide coverage across the media since the NASA Earth Observatory featured it, and the ‘circle in the clouds’ around the eruption column in particular has attracted a lot of comment and debate. At the original Earth Observatory page for the image an editorial comment has been added summarizing the different interpretations of this phenomenon (scroll down to ‘Editor’s note’) without coming down in favour of any particular explanation. Here at The Volcanism Blog we’ll have more to say about this image tomorrow next week (been very busy, sorry).
For all our Sarychev Peak coverage: Sarychev Peak « The Volcanism Blog.
Information
Global Volcanism Program: Sarychev Peak – summary information for Sarychev Peak (0900-24=)
Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team (SVERT) – organization monitoring Kuril volcanoes
SVERT status reports – current and archived alerts and status reports
Sarychev pumps out the SO2 18 June 2009
Posted by admin in NASA Earth Observatory, Russia, Sarychev Peak, activity reports, eruptions, natural hazards.Tags: Kuril Islands, NASA Earth Observatory, natural hazards, Russia, Sarychev Peak, volcanic activity reports, volcanic eruptions
comments closed
The ongoing eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands has produced a very large cloud of sulphur dioxide – indeed, the largest sulphur dioxide event this year, reports the NASA Earth Observatory in their commentary on the above image. The Earth Observatory also remarks that some satellite data indicate that the Sarychev Peak plume reached 10-15 km altitude, and may have reached as high as 21 km.
Tokyo VAAC is still reporting ‘emissions continuing’ with Sarychev Peak ash reported at 32000 feet/9750 m altitude, and the eruption continues to disrupt flights through the North Pacific air corridors. There have been no updates from SVERT since that of 16 June.
[NASA image courtesy Simon Carn, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).]
For all our Sarychev Peak coverage: Sarychev Peak « The Volcanism Blog.
Information
Global Volcanism Program: Sarychev Peak – summary information for Sarychev Peak (0900-24=)
Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team (SVERT) – organization monitoring Kuril volcanoes
SVERT status reports – current and archived alerts and status reports
SI/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 10-16 June 2009 18 June 2009
Posted by admin in Alaska, Batu Tara, Chaitén, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dukono, Ebeko, Ecuador, Galeras, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, Kamchatka, Kilauea, Kliuchevskoi, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Popocatépetl, Rabaul, Redoubt, Rinjani, Russia, Sakura-jima, Sangay, Sarychev Peak, Shiveluch, Slamet, Suwanose-jima, Tungurahua, Turrialba, Ubinas, United States, Weekly Volcanic Activity Reports, activity reports, eruptions.Tags: volcanic eruptions, volcanic activity reports, Global Volcanism Program
comments closed
The Smithsonian Institution/United States Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report covering 10-16 June 2009 is available on the Global Volcanism Program website. The following is a summary and not a substitute for the full report.
- The current report: Weekly Volcanic Activity Report.
- Previous reports: Weekly Reports Archive.
- The SI/USGS map of volcanoes discussed this week.
New activity: Rinjani (Indonesia), Sangay (Ecuador), Sarychev Peak (Russia).
Ongoing activity: Batu Tara (Indonesia), Chaitén (Chile), Dukono (Indonesia), Ebeko (Russia), Galeras (Colombia), Kilauea (USA), Kliuchevskoi (Russia), Popocatépetl (Mexico), Rabaul (Papua New Guinea), Redoubt (USA), Sakura-jima (Japan), Shiveluch (Russia), Suwanose-jima (Japan), Tungurahua (Ecuador), Turrialba (Costa Rica), Ubinas (Peru).
Sarychev Peak update, 17 June 2009 17 June 2009
Posted by admin in NASA Earth Observatory, Russia, Sarychev Peak, activity reports, eruptions.Tags: Kuril Islands, NASA Earth Observatory, Russia, Sarychev Peak, volcanic activity reports, volcanic eruptions
comments closed
There has been no fresh update on Sarychev Peak from the Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team since yesterday, but the eruption is clearly ongoing: today’s volcanic ash advisories from Tokyo VAAC report emissions continuing, and ash at flight level 320, which is 32000 feet/9750 metres (17 July 2009 18:00 GMT).
The NASA Earth Observatory is doing a wonderful job of bringing us stunning satellite imagery of the Sarychev Peak eruption. The latest satellite image comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite and shows the volcano’s plume of ash and steam stretching across the Sea of Okhotsk in an elegant curve. Greenish ashfall is visible in the sea below and to the west of the plume.
Over at Eruptions Dr Erik Klemetti has a valuable Sarychev update today, including information about the possible future behaviour of the volcano’s plume from Washington VAAC and more news on flight disruptions caused by the eruption.
[NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.]
For all our Sarychev Peak coverage: Sarychev Peak « The Volcanism Blog.
Information
Global Volcanism Program: Sarychev Peak – summary information for Sarychev Peak (0900-24=)
Sakhalin Volcanic Eruption Response Team (SVERT) – organization monitoring Kuril volcanoes
SVERT status reports – current and archived alerts and status reports
