(BIVN) – The ongoing eruption at the summit of Kīlauea is paused, with the next episode of lava fountaining expected next week. The USGS Volcano Alert Level for Kīlauea remains at WATCH. In this week’s Volcano Watch article, USGS California Volcano Observatory research hydrologist Shaul Hurwitz writes about how water plays a role in Kīlauea eruptions: When most people think …
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Explosive volcanic eruptions don’t just damage property and cancel flights. They can kill hundreds or even thousands of people, burying them under lethal ‘pyroclastic’ flows. Now, scientists in Australia have identified a possible cause of gigantic volcanic eruptions – mysterious ‘blobs’ about 1,200 miles under our feet. Blobs are three-dimensional regions that span the length of continents and stretch 100 times …
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Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the climate for years, and even wipe out life on Earth, so it’s important to know what causes them to blow. New research has revealed that specific features deep within Earth can be linked directly to such cataclysmic eruptions. Thousands of kilometers below Earth’s …
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