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Rumbleometer Virtual Site
Rumbleometer location map Rumbleometer location map (detail)

 

The Rumble site is located within the central collapsed area of the 1998 lava flow. The Rumbleometer (or VSM) is a NOAA seafloor instrument used to monitor volcanic activity. During the 1998 eruption, the instrument was caught in the new lava flow! Initially, it was a mystery how the instrument did not get buried by the new lava, because it was located in the bottom of a collapse area 3 meters deep! Clearly the lava had been more than 3 meters higher here before the flow drained-out and collapsed. Why wasn’t the instrument completely buried? How had it survived the eruption? We did not know for sure until the Rumbleometer was rescued and pulled out of the lava in 1999 and the data it recorded was examined. More ...
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Fly-through movie
The Quicktime movie below allows you to get a virtual tour of the site by moving through it. Click the button at the lower left to play the movie. Both the fly-through movie and the panorama may take some time to load, so please be patient.

 

Panorama
The Quicktime VR panorama below gives you a 360° view of the site. Click and drag your mouse inside the panorama window to look in different directions. The buttons in the bottom left zoom in or out and show hotlinks to video clips.

 
If you do not see two movie windows or Quicktime icons above, go to the Help page.
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Video clips embedded within the panorama:
Rumbleometer stuck in lava | Lava flow animation | Rumbleometer rescue
Hollow roof | Edge of collapse | Bathtub rings | Octopus on a lava pillar

Other Virtual Sites:
ASHES | CASM | The Pit | Castle | Marker 33

Related concepts:
The rumbleometer story | lava flow animation | NeMO at Axial | the 1998 eruption
Mid-ocean ridges | seafloor spreading | seamounts & hot spots | calderas | Axial volcano
Hydrothermal vents | fluid paths | focused vents | diffuse vents | snowblowers
Animal Gallery | chemosynthesis | biological colonization of new lava
Lava morphology | sheet flows | pillow lava | skylights | lava pillars | pillar animation

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