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Charts showing how different levels of volcanic emissions result in different shortwave, longwave, and total daily mean net radiative forcings computed for different scalings of sulfur dioxide volume mixing ratios.
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The Overlooked Role of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions from Volcanoes

by Lynn Russell 10 March 202022 April 2022

Volcanoes can warm as much as they cool. Prior simulations have neglected the important warming effects of sulfur dioxide emissions, making some results colder than they should be.

Smoldering peat fire emits a hazy smoke over a tropical forest
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Starting (and Stopping) a Fire to Study It

by Michael Allen 10 February 202016 March 2022

Fire experiments on peatlands in Southeast Asia have identified previously unknown emissions patterns and could point to ways to detect these smoldering fires before they become too big to fight.

Image of the Anak Krakatau volcano erupting
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The Hazard Cascade That Led to the Anak Krakatau Landslide

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 4 November 201916 March 2022

Researchers used a combination of ground and space-based measures to look for warning signs for the flank collapse at Anak Krakatau in 2018, which triggered a tsunami that killed hundreds.

Graph showing temperatures in four different depth layers over time
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CAT Pictures of Internal Solitary Waves in Indonesian Strait

by J. Sprintall 7 October 201927 January 2023

Huge and rapid subsurface temperature changes associated with propagating internal solitary waves were observed from a moored coastal acoustic tomography (CAT) system in Lombok Strait in Indonesia.

Photo of an ash-covered, densely populated tropical neighborhood and canal
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Explosive Volcanic Eruption Powered by Water-Saturated Magma

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 26 September 201913 January 2023

Little seismic unrest preceded the 2014 eruption of a stratovolcano in Indonesia, which suggests that the eruption was kick-started internally by volatile-triggered overpressure.

Man sifts through a tray of pottery sherds.
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Ceramics Trace a 14th Century Indonesian Tsunami

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 17 June 201916 March 2022

Archaeological evidence suggests that communities on the northern coast of Sumatra devastated by a tsunami roughly 600 years ago opted to rebuild in the same area, a process repeated in 2004.

Figure showing model reconstructions of the Palu tsunami
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Modeling Tsunamis with Social Media

by G. P. Hayes 31 May 201930 August 2022

Video footage gathered from social media is used to reconstruct the timing and likely source(s) of the tsunami generated by the 2018 Palu earthquake.

Residents flee the danger zone surrounding Bali’s Mount Agung after a series of eruptions in late November 2017.
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Forensic Probe of Bali’s Great Volcano

by F. M. Deegan, V. R. Troll and H. Geiger 12 February 201912 September 2022

Evidence from volcanic crystals sheds light on magma storage under Mount Agung and helps explain this giant volcano’s frequent eruptions.

Holuhraun lava field in Iceland in September 2014
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Earth’s Devastating Power, Seen by Satellite

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 January 20196 January 2023

Hurricanes, volcanoes, droughts, floods, fires, tsunamis: Satellites capture some of Earth’s most destructive forces.

Researchers use a new method to uncover evidence for gravity tectonics after the great Sumatra quake
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Evidence for Gravity Tectonics After the Great Sumatra Quake

by Terri Cook 27 March 201816 March 2022

A new method that applies structural geology principles to aftershock analyses suggests that gravity-driven motion may occur during part of the seismic cycle.

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