Volcano :: Related Web Sites

HOTSPOTS - University of Hawaii
HOTSPOTS ties together various sources of near-real-time data acquired by different Earth-observing satellites and processed by scientists at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii.

USGS Volcano Hazards Program
This site provides detailed information on volcanoes in the U.S. It also provides fact sheets about how volcanoes are formed and where you're likely to find them. Images of volcanoes are available as well.

Volcano World
This web site contains extensive information on every aspects of volcanoes. Features include: What is Volcano World?, Volcanoes of the World, Volcanic Parks and Monuments, Learning about Volcanoes, Test your Knowledge of Volcanoes Contest, Ask a Volcanologist, Search Volcano World, Search the Bulletin of Volcanology, and Volcano News.

JPL's Volcano Page
Earth's surface and interior are in constant motion. Volcanoes originate deep within our planet's interior and break through to the surface with almost unimaginable force, sending clouds of gases and debris into the atmosphere.

GOES Project Volcano Watch
NASA-GSFC serves up GOES-8 realtime weather images in sectors. These sectors include most of the volcanoes in the western hemisphere.

Volcanoes and Global Climate Change
This PDF document how volcanic gases are thought to be responsible for declines in global temperature following a large volcanic eruption.

Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) is dedicated to better understanding of all volcanoes through documentation of eruptions, large and small, during the past 10,000 years. The program integrates observations of contemporary activity with historical and geological records in order to promote wise preparation for the future.

Volcano :: Related Earth Observatory Articles

Astronauts Photograph Mount Pinatubo
In early 1991, Mt. Pinatubo, a volcano north of Manila on the Philippine island of Luzon, had been dormant for more than 500 years. Few geologists would have guessed that it would produce one of the world's most explosive eruptions in the twentieth century.

When Rivers of Rock Flow
On the night of September 22, 1994, a river of rock returned with a vengeance to the Filipino village of San Antonio. The villagers had seen their first "lahar" just three years before when Mount Pinatubo erupted for the first time in centuries. These raging slurries of volcanic rock and ash and water, powered by torrential summer rains and typhoons, sliced roads, buried villages, and covered farmland beneath thick layers of volcanic rubble.

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