Volcano!

[zork]

not really much to see yet. the ! was a little much. nevertheless when it goes full tilt watch it here:

The Link

To make it political: Looks like a good excuse to zero out the weather data for the last 3 months and the next 3.

 

[zork]

I've been watching this out of curiosity. My family took a car trip to Colorado this summer in which we passed by the dormant volcano in NE New Mexico. It was great for the kids and a fun drive up to the top.

Anyway, this is possibly an early chance to see a volcano grow over the next weeks, months, year? The website linked above has rudimentary, but cool, tools to let you see how the earthquakes on the location have been tracking. There was a 5.7 rated earthquake there about 17-18 hours ago! Mostly there have been 2-3 level on the scale earthquakes happening with great frequency with the occasional >3 showing up every 8 hours or so.

The first day I posted the quakes were mostly in the 1.5 to 2.5 range. This could be really boring or might be a cool thing to watch if it actually does grow. The camera view doesn't seem to have changed much although there seemed to be smoke the first day or so.

This is a huge picture showing the activity a few days ago. Not much smoke today.

 

[zork]

We have LAVA! Check out the pics at night from the original link. Awesome.

Edit: just found what I think was the main eruption from about 10 or so , i believe, hours ago:

This is another link that follows volcanic activity:
The Link

 

[zork]

looking at the main link there is one area that has a crust now, seemingly since there is no orange glow where there was yesterday, and still the active pool of orange lava/magma/smoke.

There have been level 5 on the Richter scale earthquakes there daily. mainly on the western side of the fault.

I've never followed a volcano except from a random newscast generally after the fact. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing from personal or professional brushes with these seismic birth of volcano events?