Etna! Katmai! Volcanoes!

I shall call this another entry into the sporadic lunch time blogging series!

Etna, Etna, Etna....
I really just wanted to share with you an amazing, and BEAUTIFUL photo that popped up on the Volcano group on facebook.

I mean just look at that! WOW! That photo makes my heart melt. I really have nothing else to say about this other than LOOK AT THIS AWESOME PHOTO! I did take the time to look up the weekly activity report from the Global Volcanism Program and according to them, this paroxysm is the 25th since January 2011 and followed 11 days of quiescence. It took place on April 24, 2012 in the new SE Crater.

KATMAI!
June marks 100 years since the eruption at Katmai in Alaska. Tonight (April 25th) there is a lecture at UAF in Fairbanks. Here is a link to the flier  and here is the relevant information.

The Novarupta - Katmai Eruption of 1912 largest eruption

of the 20th century: A Centennial Perspective

Judy Fierstein, Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey

April 25, 2012 7:30 pm

Boyd room, 201 Reichardt Building, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks

Free to the public

UAFs facebook page also posted this video 

and AVO has a ton of information about this eruption and the research done on it! 

I hope you will enjoy geeking out about this eruption as much as I will! However my lunch break is over and I must get back to work! Enjoy!