 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
While on a routine patrol late last week a New Zealand Defense Force patrol craft spotted a massive area of pumice floating in the South Pacific from an unknown source. Teaming up with NASA, volcanologists today pinpointed the source of a raft of debris covering thousands of square miles. Read the rest of this story on [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Mother Nature can be destructive but one weather forecast that recently appeared on YouTube called for conditions approaching Armageddon. The video, recorded by a WTVR Richmond meteorologist, calls for everything from a volcano causing temperatures of 400 degrees to an attack by Godzilla. Read more about this apocalyptic forecast on Examiner.com and check out the [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.This week a significant eruption of Mount Shimnoe on the island of Kyushu in Japan sent ash billowing 15,000 feet into the atmosphere. The mountain, part of a complex of 20 volcanoes, will be familiar to fans of James Bond movies. Shimnoe-dake (Shimnoe Peak) began to erupt on Wednesday prompting some flight cancelations from area [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.One major natural disaster is bad enough but the nation of Indonesia is struggling to recover from two that struck in the past week. A major earthquake caused a tsunami late Monday and Tuesday the nation’s most active volcano erupted. Off the nation’s western coast, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake triggered a tsunami with 10 foot [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.The morning of May 18, 1980 started as a quiet one with bright blue skies over the Cascade Mountains in Washington. That however quickly changed at 8:32am when Mount St. Helens came to life erupting in what would become the deadliest volcanic event in the history of the United States. The eruption wasn’t entirely a [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.The images are nothing less than astounding – so unreal appearing in fact that the reaction of many people is to conclude they are fake. However, volcano-induced lightning is a very real phenomenon and one that is not well understood. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland erupted last month and that event was followed by a [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.With no signs of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland stopping its latest eruption, international flights to and from Europe at Denver International Airport were cancelled for the second day in a row in Friday. The ash plume from the volcano has cancelled thousands of flights worldwide and stranded tens of thousands of passengers. Travelers through Denver [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.A week ago the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland erupted forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate as lava and ash shot into the air. The eruption has continued since and NASA’s Terra satellite recently flew over the island nation and captured stunning images of the volcano. A fissure in the earth nearly one half mile long [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.With glowing red lava now flowing regularly down its sides and seismic activity ‘dramatically increased,’ an eruption of the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines is now considered imminent. Activity on the mountain has steadily increased over the past week and prompted the evacuation of nearly 45,000 area residents. Today the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.The Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is a relatively active area for volcanic activity, like much of the rest of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Bezymianny volcano in the east-central part of the peninsula is the smaller of three neighboring volcanoes. Bezymianny was thought to be extinct until it erupted from 1955 to 1956. Prior [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Top
Home News
Mobile Weather
Site Map
Rocky Mountain Weather NetworkWeather Geek Stuff
Contact Us 
RSS Feed
© Copyright 2006 - 2013, ThorntonWeather.comSite hosted by: Denver Web Host
