When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in January 2022, its effects were felt — and heard — thousands of kilometers away. A new study analyzes crowdsourced data (largely from Keep reading
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A Seismic Warning for the Tongan Eruption
In mid-January 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) volcano had one of the most massive eruptions ever recorded, destroying an island, generating a tsunami, and blanketing Tonga in ash. Volcanologists Keep reading
“Stomp-Rocket”: A New Type of Eruption
When Kilauea‘s caldera collapsed in 2018, it came with a sequence of 12 closely-timed eruptions that did not match either of the typical volcanic eruption types. Usually, eruptions are either Keep reading
Venusian Lava Flows
Venus is often known as Earth’s twin, given its similar size and proximity. But, thanks to its runaway greenhouse effect, Venus is a hellish landscape buried beneath a hot atmosphere Keep reading
Vortex Rings at Dawn
Vortex rings blown from Mount Etna’s vents drift through the dawn light in this beautiful image from Dario Giannobile. Little is required to create vortex rings — they are a Keep reading
Etna’s Blowing Rings
Mount Etna has long been known for its smoke rings, but thanks to the opening of a new vent on the volcano’s southeast crater, it’s now making more rings than Keep reading
Seeding Clouds
In the remote South Atlantic, north of the Antarctic Circle, sit the volcanic Zavodovski and Visokoi islands. Though only roughly 500 and 1000 meters tall, respectively, each island disrupts the Keep reading
Icelandic Eruption
When I started FYFD, volcano footage was far rarer. These days the affordability and durability of drones and action cameras — along with the relative accessibility of eruptions in places Keep reading
Icelandic Glow
Solar wind particles slam into the atmosphere near Earth’s poles, creating billowing curtains of glowing plasma known as auroras. Beneath the earth, molten rock seethes and flows, squeezed up fissures Keep reading
Underwater Volcanic Flows
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption in December 2021 was the most violent in 140 years, and we are still learning from its aftermath. A recent study focuses on the Keep reading