Intriguingly, the part of the subduction zone that broke was not the part that had built up the most stress, according to a ground - motion study of northern Chile's seismic gap by Marianne Métois, a geophysicist at the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology in Rome, and her colleagues (M. Métois et al.Geophys.
The legacy of the L'Aquila trial has complicated the problem, says Andrea Tertulliani, a geologist at the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology in Rome.
Syahbana, who studied
volcanology in Brussels and Paris, said his team's main job was to «increase the preparedness of the communities here in the event of a major eruption».
Meanwhile, on the ground, earth scientists from the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology in Italy are taking aim at the volcano with spectrometers, which measure the types and amounts of gases spewing from its mouth.
Stefano Lorito of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology in Rome and colleagues assessed the amount of land movement during the magnitude 8.8 quake that hit Chile in February 2010, claiming over 500 lives.
«It's really interesting to see the dynamic evolution that the model predicts, and how it explains what we observe on the surface,» says Simone Atzori, a geophysicist at the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology in Rome, who was not involved with the study.
The magnitude - 6.2 quake was not preceded by even one warning tremor, says Warner Marzocchi, head of the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology in Rome.
Not exact matches
«These areas can give rise to the only eruptions that can have global catastrophic effects comparable to major meteorite impacts,» Giuseppe De Natale from Italy's National Institute for Geophysics and
Volcanology, told Reuters back
in 2012.
«But some of these areas,
in particular the Campi Flegrei, are densely populated and therefore even small eruptions, which are the most probable, fortunately, can pose risks for the population,» said De Natale, from the Vesuvius observatory at Italy's National Institute for Geophysics and
Volcanology.
As
in most other research fields,
volcanology jobs are scarce.
In college geochemistry and volcanology were early interests, and I did my senior thesis in that fiel
In college geochemistry and
volcanology were early interests, and I did my senior thesis
in that fiel
in that field.
And the problem was also partly a breakdown of communication between researchers, policymakers, and the public regarding the possibility of a volcanic crisis, writes Clive Oppenheimer, a
volcanology and remote sensing lecturer at the University of Cambridge
in the United Kingdom,
in a commentary published
in The Geographical Journal.
«The field of
volcanology is quite a long way behind fields like meteorology,
in terms of developing forecasts,» says David Pyle, a volcanologist at the University of Oxford.
Dzurisin thinks data assimilation will become more widely used
in the
volcanology community.
Old workhorses of
volcanology — seismometers and GPS sensors, which detect movement of the ground — first picked up Eyjafjallajökull's stirrings
in early January.
She applied for several Ph.D. positions
in the U.K.,
in areas that included oceanography and
volcanology.
SELFOSS, Iceland — One of the biggest mysteries
in volcanology may finally have a solution.
As for the idea that the smaller tremors reduce the risk by releasing energy, Bertolaso insisted that he had heard it from scientists at the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and
Volcanology (INGV), and that he had used the same phrase
in the past without being corrected by any of his seismology consultants.
Similar sentiments were expressed
in a 9 March note to government officials and parliamentarians from the presidents of several of the Italian research institutions that make regular use of air guns, including the National Research Council, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, and the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology.
Based on a new model that draws from research
in diverse fields including petrology, geodynamics,
volcanology and geochemistry, the team's findings were published online this week
in Nature Geoscience.
Controversy has erupted
in Italy following the news that Domenico Giardini, who had announced late last year that he was to resign as president of the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology (INGV), may now stay on
in his job if a way can be found to supplement his income with that from a specially created professorship at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Jaggar's research
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries forms the foundation of almost every aspect of modern
volcanology, Dvorak says.
Enzo Boschi, the then - president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology and now a defendant
in the case, seemed to allude to this uncertainty
in a March 31, 2009, meeting
in L'Aquila, a medieval city
in Abruzzo.
Analysis of lava collected from Mount St. Helens, USA and the Soufrière Hills volcano
in Montserrat by
volcanology researchers from the University's School of Environmental Sciences revealed remnants of pseudotachylyte, a cooled frictional melt.
A team of researchers
in Russia - including scientists at St. Petersburg State University, the Institute of
Volcanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the firm Mechanobr - Analit
in St.
Advancing tephrochronology as a global dating tool: Applications
in volcanology, archaeology, and palaeoclimatic research Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date
in the past, allowing such object or event to be located
These books — most of which were published
in 2016 — represent a wide range of STEM fields, from marine biology to
volcanology to math.
The evacuation came as Indonesia's national
volcanology center issued the highest alert level for an eruption last Friday (Sept. 22), followed by an update Sunday night noting there has been increasing seismic energy (link
in Indonesian).
Mount Agung
in Bali is experiencing unprecedented levels of seismic activity and could erupt
in a «matter of hours» if tremors continue, Indonesia's
volcanology centre has said.
Mount Agung
in Bali could erupt
in a «matter of hours», according to Indonesia's
volcanology centre.
Kasbani, the head of the
volcanology centre, told local media that if tremors continued, an eruption — the first
in more than half a century — could be a «matter of hours» away.
Indonesia's
volcanology centre said there had not been an increase
in the frequency of volcanic tremors and it was monitoring the situation.
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry's
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center (PVMBG) said
in a statement that the height of the smoke reached more than 700 meters from the peak of the mountain.
The Center for
Volcanology and Geological Hazards (PVMBG) flew a drone over Mount Agung's crater
in Bali on Thursday to analyze ash clouds and volcanic activity after the volcano erupted on Tuesday.
The Indonesian Center for
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation said there has been an increase
in volcanic tremors, with a total of 564 recorded Monday.
Volcanic activity
in Mount Agung is slowing and the volcano's status has been lowered from level four «danger» to level three «alert» by Indonesia's
volcanology centre.
Indonesia's national
volcanology centre said
in a statement (
in Indonesian) on Sunday night that the mountain's «seismic energy is increasing and has the potential to erupt».
The
Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) has recorded a decline
in the volcano's activity.
He said the decision had been made during the evaluation meeting to discuss reports from the
Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG), the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) and the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC)
in Darwin as well as pilots» observation and tests conducted at the airport.
The
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center (PVMBG) indicated on Monday that an eruption at Mount Agung
in Bali could be imminent given its increasing seismic activity.
Magma at Mount Agung
in Bali has moved upward, indicated by the release of water vapor from its crater,
in addition to increased seismic activity, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry's
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center (PVMBG) reported on Monday.
The Indonesian Center for
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation said tremors happened less frequently on Sunday but were stronger than
in previous days.
Never
in the history of
volcanology have so many volcanoes been monitored.
On The Conversation, a fast - expanding website
in which scientists and scholars fill the gap left as conventional news operations shrink, there's a superb look at the Tavurvur eruption by Robin Wylie, a doctoral student
in volcanology at University College London (@rwylie9 on Twitter).
Here's how the BBC described the defense offered by Pasquale de Santis, the chief spokesman for the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology (INGV below), which employs two of the scientists charged
in the case:
They lead international research
in climate change, natural hazards and
volcanology, geography, atmospheric and ocean sciences, geochemistry, natural resource management, ecology, biodiversity conservation, environmental biology, environmental policy, environmental economics, sustainability and geographical information systems.
When I asked a prof of
volcanology whether undersea volcanoes might produce a noticeable and sudden increase
in the temperature of the Arctic Ocean (which was her specialty) she said «NO».
Ukstins Peate — along with Sam Saltzman, a Master of Science student
in Geoscience focusing on geochemistry and paleoclimatology from Lake Forest, Illinois, and Brennan van Alderwerelt, a doctoral student
in volcanology and igneous petrology from Portland, Oregon — spent two weeks at Laguna Lejía
in October 2014.