#volcanic island

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Ilheu de Vila Franca do Campo, Azores / Portugal (by Fabio Silva).

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The volcanic islands of Azores

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“Largas” – northern spotted seals

Moneron, A Small Volcanic Island Untouched By Man

Photographer: Dmitry Kokh

Playful steller sea lions

Steller sea lions are a large northern species of sea lion or “eared seals”, whose males can weigh up to a ton

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Could you imagine living on the small volcanic Island of Åstol in western Sweden?.

Around 200 people permanently live there in their cute white wooden houses without any cars on the streets 🏠 !.

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Volcanic Island

Artist: Brian Snõddy TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Volcanic Activity Around the World (2024)

This is a summary of volcanic activity around the world on February 24, 2024, based on a news report from Volcano Discovery.

Santiaguito: The volcano continues to erupt with strombolian activity, ejecting incandescent material up to 100 meters high.

Fuego: The volcano continues to erupt with ash plumes reaching up to 15,000 ft.

Popocatépetl: The volcano continues to emit moderate amounts of ash and gas.

Semeru: The volcano continues to erupt with ash plumes reaching up to 50,000 ft.

Dukono: The volcano erupted on February 24, 2024, ejecting ash up to 20,000 ft.

Sakurajima: The volcano continues to erupt with explosions and ash plumes reaching up to 5,000 ft.

Suwanose-jima: The volcano continues to erupt with ash plumes reaching up to 2,000 ft.

Manam: The volcano continues to erupt with ash plumes reaching up to 10,000 ft.

Lewotobi: The volcano continues to erupt with ash plumes reaching up to 5,000 ft.

Reykjanes: The Icelandic Met Office said an eruption is likely in this area.

Nevado del Ruiz: The volcano is emitting low levels of ash and gas.

Volcanic ash plumes can pose a hazard to aviation and can cause respiratory problems for people on the ground. If you are in an area affected by volcanic ash, it is important to follow the advice of local authorities.

Please note that this is just a summary of the information in the post. For more detailed information, please refer to the original source.

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Moonwhatcher seeing the volcano

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Sunset over Ischia

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Yet another phoenix-like island has risen from the volcanic ashes of the Ring of Fire — this time off the coast of Japan's Ogasawara Islands, a far-flung archipelago also known as the Bonin Islands.

The fresh new land mass in the Pacific Ocean is the youngest of all its neighbors and was born from an ongoing undersea volcanic eruption that began on October 21st.

Volcanologist Setsuya Nakada from the University of Tokyo told The Japan Times that the underwater volcanic eruption that formed the island started as a "vertical jet" of solidified magma that shot high above the waves.

After that, the eruption was sustained by relatively continuous bursts.

As all that debris fell back into the ocean as lava, mixed with a porous, low-density material called pumice, the mound of rock built until it was high enough to peek out of the depths like a periscope.

Come November 3, the undersea volcano had switched gears and was spewing mostly ash, says Nakada, who flew over the site on that day.

The young land mass sits in plain sight of Iwo Jima, an island about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Tokyo that currently has no permanent inhabitants.

This island was once the site of a famous battle between American and Japanese forces in World War II.

Its new neighbor lies just over a kilometer off the coast, and while the fresh pumice rock does not sit far above the water line, as of Friday, it stretched about two kilometers in diameter.

The only people who can admire the new view from Iwo Jima are those stationed at a Japanese Self-Defense Force base.

The eruption is currently ongoing, although it seems to have reached its peak and is somewhat calming down.

While the new land mass may grow slightly larger in the coming days, any pumice that isn't cemented down by lava flows would be eroded away, calling into question how much of the island could remain over time.

Nakada says submarine volcanic eruptions in this part of the world tend to only continue for a month or so.

While much is known of the active land-based volcanos that dot the Ring of Fire, an active zone that fringes the Pacific Ocean, far less is known of the vents and fissures that lie on the ocean floor.

Scientists estimate there are over a million submarine volcanoes around the world, but many of these are probably extinct.

Even those that are active often lie too deep to make above-water observations feasible.

In fact, one of the largest eruptions in the history of Japan was the result of an undersea eruption in 1924 – although the location of the volcano was inferred much later on.

Only in recent decades have scientists finally caught submarine volcanoes in action.

Watching islands form from these eruptions is even rarer, although it gives incredible insight into how many such islands in the Pacific, including the Hawaiian Islands, once formed, millions of years ago.

In 2015, for instance, a new island was formed in the South Pacific, creating an incredible living experiment for geologists, volcanologists, biologists, and ecologists to study.

In 2022, the island had already disappeared, destroyed by another eruption.

Who knows how long the new one in Japan will last.

"There is a possibility that the (new) island could merge with Iwo Jima if the eruption continues," Nakada told The Japan Times.

Only time will tell.

Source: Science Alert

硫黄島の沖で始まった噴火　島に軽石の丘が誕生

(Eruption begins off the coast of Iwo Jima, creating a pumice hill on the island.)

4 November 2023

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Ross Island

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AEOLIAN ISLANDS (ME), August 4th, 2018 (iPhone SE) From left to right; Basiluzzo, Panarea, Salina

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Exploring Tenerife

Day 1. March 2023

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“Looking over the Aegean, Santorini / Greece .”

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Moneron, A Small Volcanic Island Untouched By Man

Plazaster borealis starfish

Photographer: Dmitry Kokh

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“Looking over the Aegean, Santorini / Greece .”

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Volcanic Island

Artist: Brian Snõddy TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link