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This is why you don’t go around the barriers in a national park.
Source: NPR
Overflowing lava lake at Nyiragongo volcano, Virunga Volcanoes National Park (Apparetnly the park was conducting a fundraiser, click through if interested)
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The beautiful Nyiragongo volcano by night. Virunga is truly unique and must be protected at all costs. .
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Trailer for an upcoming IMAX video exploring volcanoes. Original caption:
Discover molten worlds and exploding craters in an immersive experience that will have you on the edge of your seat. Travel around the world and dodge boulders at the edge of an active volcano in Indonesia, descend to a boiling lava lake in Vanuatu, dive beneath the waves to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean and witness the spectacular 2018 Kilauea eruption in Hawaii.
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Timelapse video by @babaktafreshi The World at Night project
Absolute silence of a desert night. Far from city lights the starry sky was reflecting on still water of Salar de Atacama, the largest salt flat in Chile, near San Pedro de Atacama and a chain of high volcanoes bordering Bolivia.
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Iztaccíhuatl y Popocatépetl
OMG the opening shot captures the entire flow field from the cinder cone known as fissure 8 all the way to the ocean. Original caption:
As of July 12th, the USGS reports that the current Leilani eruption had covered 12.1 square miles of land. The lava delta had also added 655 acres of new land off the southeastern shore of the Big Island. The cone around Fissure 8 has slumped about 20 feet... but the vent is still issuing about the same amount of lava every day. Waves of lava roll out of the vent, sending a steady stream of hot liquid rock into the channel below, which feeds the ocean entries. The largest entry is still at Ahalanui, the scene of Monday's littoral explosion, that injured at least a dozen passengers on a lava tour boat operated by Shane Turpin of Lava Ocean Tours. When the hot lava interacted with the cold seawater, it flashed into steam, causing an explosion sending hot rock several hundred feet into the air. That entry has slowed considerably, but we saw a littoral explosion there this morning. Pele is now pushing her way south... and has crossed about 2/3rds of "Bowls" on the northeast end. She is steadily pushing toward Isaac Hale Beach Park at Pohoiki, and may even be there this weekend. Even more lava is behind the current flow, making its way south and southwest... and is carrying an enormous amount of lava. Leilani, Beach Ball Ducky, Special Return Guest Leslie Gleim, Bruce Omori and I were saddened by the turn of events in lower Puna, but want to thank Paradise Helicopters for a fine charter this morning! Mahalo pilot Sean Regehr and Paradise... you guys really can't be beat!!!
Oh wow. This is the view of the ongoing East Rift Zone eruption from the summit of Mauna Loa, which overlooks its smaller neighbor Kilauea. The Shadow of Mauna Loa is visible as the sun sets, and the plume of water vapor coming up above the eruption site pierces the clouds. After the sun sets, you can see the glow of the lava on the clouds.
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Cleveland and Carlisle Volcanoes of Chuginadak Island, which is part of the Islands of Four Mountains just west of Umnak Island in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
by Cyrus Read - U.S. Geological Survey
Source: popphoto.com
Overflowing Lava Lake
Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii has been erupting basaltic lava almost constantly since 1983. The first eruption site is on the East Rift Zone – a series of craters connected to the main volcanic plumbing system that heads to the east of Kilauea’s central caldera. For the last 10 years there have been eruptions at 2 different points on the volcano, as a lava lake formed inside a crater within Kilauea Caldera.
In 2015, the crater inside Kilauea Caldera overflowed. That crater is called Overlook Crater because it sits just below the overlook viewing position from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. New lava was deposited on the floor of the larger Halemaumau crater, visible in this photo from 2015 (https://tmblr.co/Zyv2Js1kewZcI).
The lava lake level moves up and down as the supply of molten rock beneath the volcano changes. In recent months, the volcano has been inflating, suggesting continued intrusion of new magma into the system below. A few days ago, the lava lake reached the upper rim of overlook crater again. This video, taken from the HVO overlook position, captures the lava lake just as it reached the crater rim.
The lava lake tends to rise and fall every few days, a process called inflation and deflation cycles. The lava lake level has fallen since this video was taken, but it may rise again soon based on its recent behavior. The high levels of molten rock in the system, along with an increasing number of earthquakes beneath the summit, have led some to suggest that new eruption vents could form in the near future somewhere along the volcano’s flanks.
-JBB
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Oh my that is a lot of volcanoes.
wondertherapyA view of 10 volcanoes at the summit?! Worth the epic wind and near death experience. All is well, grateful for every second and in love with my life.
Travel through the contrasting landscape - barren lava flows and lush foliage - of Hawaii Volcanoes National park
Coral reefs at the edge of Anak Krakatau and exploration of a number of volcanic craters by Drone, Indonesia
Pahoehoe lobe sitting on the surface, Hawaii