Volcanic activity on Mt. Agung had been slowing and the volcano's status was lowered from the highest level, danger, to the third highest level, alert,
by the volcanology center.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
The new plan specifies that the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the Italian Space Agency, the National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology, and nine other institutes overseen
by Profumo's ministry would be merged to form a single body with the same initials as that of the largest of the dozen, the National Research Council.
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.
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 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).
Travelers are being urged to reconfirm plans with airlines and tour operators, and to check for Bali volcano updates and news issued
by local geological and
volcanology agencies.
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.
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.
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: