Based
on volcanology data, the volcano's eruption was quite huge, with an amplitude level of 52 dB and a volcanic ash altitude of more than 2,000 meters above the crater,» said NTB Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) head Muhammad Rum on Tuesday.
Not exact matches
«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.
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.
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.
ROME — Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology (INGV), will face trial
on charges of manslaughter with six other scientists and technicians for failing to alert the residents of L'Aquila ahead of the devastating earthquake that struck the central Italian town
on 6 April 2009, killing 308 people.
The Indonesian centre for
volcanology and geological hazard mitigation said
on Friday that remote satellite sensing had picked up new steam emissions and thermal areas within the crater.
On Sunday, Indonesia's Center for
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation raised its aviation alert notice to Red, the highest level.
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.
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 Hazard Mitigation Center (PVMBG) indicated
on Monday that an eruption at Mount Agung in Bali could be imminent given its increasing seismic activity.
According to monitoring results of the Center for
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, Mt. Agung's volcanic activities continued
on Thursday with 58 shallow volcanic tremors, 104 deep volcanic tremors and 17 local tectonic tremors.
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.
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.
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
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
on Twitter).
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.
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