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9 April 2021
Weather Satellites Do Far More Than Monitor Weather. They Watch Volcanoes Too
The La Soufrière volcano on St. Vincent has rumbled to life and the loop below shows the second of two eruptions today. This is a dangerous volcano. It killed over 1000 in 1902 and it is a stratovolcano. Those are the ones that go BANG, unlike the shield volcanoes in Hawaii that spread runny lava everywhere. The last eruption was in April of 1979, and let’s hope this one is …
23 April 2015
Amazing Time-Lapse of Calbuco Volcano in Chile
This video speaks for itself: Check out the image at sunset from the NY Times twitter feed. Also Andy Revkin has more info here.
7 September 2014
Volcanic Shock Wave from Papua New Guinea
Turn up the sound, and watch. Isn’t geology cool!
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.