Emergency plans have been put into operation after two new craters opened on the summit of the volcanic Italian island of Stromboli. One of the new lava streams created on the island, just north of Sicily, has already started flowing into the sea. Coastguard patrol boats have been deployed and the population of 750 people [...]

Scientists are worried a full moon could finally spark a violent eruption in a volcano in the Philippines. Thousands of people have been evacuated from around Mount Mayon as it threatened to explode over recent weeks. It is now thought the gravitational pull of a full moon could provide the final push. “To put it [...]

This is cool – a new volcano layer for Google Earth! From Layers, choose Geographic Features and check Volcanoes.  This will activate a red volcano placemark.  Clicking on this placemark will give you information on the selected volcano. Nice feature! (via Google Earth Blog)

The webcam at the Alaska Volcano Observatory website (located on Augustine Island in Alaska) offers an excellent view of the Augustine Volcano.  The volcanic unrest is continuing to grow and the webcam shows a pretty big ash plume and several mud flows (lahars). Well worth keeping an eye on!

It’s not often that the formation of a volcano can be observed over a human lifetime, but Paricutín in Mexico is an example of a volcano that formed within a matter of days. Paricutín is a volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán, close to the village of the same name but before 1943 the [...]