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The "vast Cascade magma chamber" rears its head again, this time in Nature Geoscience. UPDATED.
The latest SI/USGS Volcanic Activity Report, with news of volcanoes from around the globe.
The latest Mystery Volcano Photo for your best guess!
The answer to the latest Mystery Volcano Photo was San Miguel in El Salvador.
The old crater rim, previously buried under snow and ice, was exposed this summer at Mt. Baker. Meanwhile, fumaroles at the summit of Mt. Baker are active as ever – see some videos of the activity!
The weekly USGS/SI Volcanic Activity Report along with images of the new activity at Soufriere Hills.
The signs of activity at Gaua in Vanuatu seem to be have been spot on, as officials from the island nation report that the volcano has indeed erupted.
Lots of volcanological goodies coming up next week at the annual Geological Society of America meeting, this year in Portland, Oregon.
GSA, as always, was 1000% busier than planned.
Exhausted from a great GSA, its time for Mystery Volcano Photo #10.
Cleveland volcano in Alaska produced a 20,000 foot ash plume on Friday (and it was a bit of a surprise).
The next Mystery Volcano Photo!
The last mystery photo was a "gimme", so here is a better challenge for all you volcanophiles.
Eruptions today at two of the world's more active volcanoes.
The answers to the last two Mystery Volcano Photos includes a tongue-twister from Iceland.
The NASA Earth Observatory has definitely been keeping volcanophiles busy this week with some great new images of erupting volcanoes.
A new study in Nature finds that magma from the Chaiten eruption sped through the crust – and you can ask the author about it!
Here's your chance to ask a question to Dr. Jonathan Castro, one of the author's of the new Nature paper on the speed of rhyolite movement during the May 2008 Chaiten eruption.
Redoubt returns to "normal" and Long Valley has some earthquake swarms.
Help students in underfunded schools get outside and see rocks!