Ash column rises from Mount Ulawun, as seen from an aeroplane window, in Papua New Guinea. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India on December 21 sent relief material worth $1 million for the people affected by a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea. A major volcanic eruption of Mount Ulawun in Papua New Guinea resulted … Read more
A team of researchers at the University of Illinois have launched a unique volcanic forecasting modelling programme. While this programme runs on the university’s Blue Waters and iForge supercomputers, the model had earlier successfully predicted a eruption in the Sierra Negra volcano in Equador in June 2018. The research has been published in Science Advances … Read more
A volcanic eruption under the water near the Pacific country of Tonga in January 2022, sent a huge pressure wave through the atmosphere of the earth, a research published in the journal Science on May 12, 2022, said. Before this, the last volcano that generated such large ripples across the earth’s atmosphere was Krakatau in … Read more