Oliver Lamb

A Clear Day in Kamchatka It isn’t often that we get a clear day across much of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. February 15, 2026 was one of those rare days and ESA’s Sentinel-2 had clear shots of so many vo…

I *may* have gotten carried away, but this weekend saw clear skies over Kamchatka ... so you get 26 Sentinel-2 shots with a bevy of Russian volcanoes. So many calderas. So many. eruptions.site/2026/02/17/a... #eruptions #volcanoes

A zoomed in look at 4 scientists working with the a lava fountain covering the entire background.

A very tall lava fountain with tiny dots (people) near the base. The image is a bit forced perspective and we are not as close as it looks

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in…

Credit: Volcano Hideaways

Photo from USGS

Kilauea erupted again yesterday in a fierce display. In only the 2nd time in 40 years, park officials closed the area due to the intensity.

Fountains were officially recorded at 500 m high, grapefruit size tephra were being ejected, and tephra fall was measured up to 20 miles away.
#volcano #hawaii

Locations of more than 21 000 earthquakes located across New Zealand and the Kermadec region in 2025 with a wide range of magnitudes and depths.

Histogram of the number of earthquakes and magnitudes with most in the M 1.5 - 2.5 range.

A quick summary of 2025 New Zealand earthquakes. GeoNet located more than 21 000 earthquakes in New Zealand and the Kermadec region. Magnitudes range from -0.3 – 6.8 and depth from 0 (just below the surface) – 750 km. 1/ 🧪

Just after midnight on 1 January 2026, a new eruption started from #Etna's eastern flank: a fissure opened at ~2100 m elevation, and a lava flow is descending through the desert-like Valle del Bove. Photos taken in the evening of 1 January from Etna's east and southeast flanks

Check out our new paper about phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano in New Zealand! 🌋🇳🇿

Screenshot of an absolutely crazy amazing volcanic eruption!

Stop what you're doing and watch this - absolutely wild!!

Kilauea, Hawaii #Volcano

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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.

Gyrfalcon
Gelada baboon
Manatee
Andean Condor
Hoiho (Yellow Eyed Penguin)

Eruption on November 25, 2025 at Kīlauea in Hawai'i.

We got volcano time! (New eruption just started at Kīlauea): www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

Looking down into a glowing volcanic vent, with a plume of steam and gas rising. All under a cloudy sky with dusk colours.

Red hot lava bombs rise out of a glowing volcanic vent during a loud volcanic explosion!

Still smiling after another amazing visit to Yasur volcano in Vanuatu just over a week ago. We were there to help VMGD install new infrasound microphones in their monitoring network, a vital tool for tracking eruptive activity.

Color mostly depends on the gas and ash content of the plume, i.e. more gas means whiter, more ash means greyer. Difficult to tell from color alone if plume is from a flow.

I suspect it's just different wind directions at different heights in the atmosphere, causing differentiation of the plume. Suggests a very tall plume.

Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano

An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

Completely agree, I've definitely zoned out of quite a lot of talks!

Great! Microsoft and Google autocaptions are awesome but still not perfect. They still struggle with non English or thick regional accents, or when microphones are not working correctly, so a little bit of text is still good to have.

Solid advice here but I disagree with the first point for one reason: accessibility.

Having text as 2 or 3 short bullet points on your slide will help deaf and HoH folks (such as myself) follow your talk as they might not be able to hear you.

YouTube video by Manila Bulletin Multiple minor eruptions rock Taal Volcano on Oct. 26

#volcan #volcano #Taal 🇵🇭 Des explosions phréatiques ou préatomagmatiques parfois assez spectaculaires sont observées dans le lac/Some relatively impressive phreatic or phreatomagmatic explosions are observed in the lake www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enjx...

What makes Ruapehu tick, and boom episode of Our Changing World podcast It’s been 30 years since a dramatic series of eruptions at Mount Ruapehu. In that time, there have been great advances in monitoring and modelling volcanoes – but we still can’t look inside a volcano ...

If you need something to listen to today, check out the latest episode of Our Changing World where we talk about some experimental work we're currently working on, i.e. a mini-volcano in the lab! 🌋

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Two lava fountains at night feeding a flow

A bright orange lava fountain

A bright orange lava fountain with glowing clouds.

Kīlauea episode 35 has arrived. The double fountain shot is from one of the HVO interns, Christina. All are taken from the public viewing areas.

A schematic 'slice' of seismic velocity beneath the geothermal systems north of Taupō. Low velocity anomalies are apparent at 7-12 km depth - which we interpret as representing crystal-rich partial melt.

Using earthquake data we image seismic velocity 'anomalies' at 7-12 km depth beneath geothermal systems, north of Taupō, New Zealand. We interpret the anomalies as representing crystal-rich partial melt – the deep heat sources driving the geothermal systems.

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#seismology

Once upon a time, the platform formerly known as Twitter was a vibrant meeting-place where scientists, the public, official orgs and more besides could exchange knowledge. I set out to find out how effective it could be for disseminating geoscience info

Skip to the paper ☛ doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Seismicity From Modern Magmatic Activity Beneath Taupō Volcano, Aotearoa New Zealand Seismicity beneath the northern part of Lake Taupō is directly related to the volcano, while other seismicity is tectonically controlled Newly observed arcuate shape at ∼6 km depth beneath the la...

Very happy to see El Mestel's work on seismicity at Taupō volcano published today in JGR: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

El used a new seismic network to look at Taupō in more detail than anyone has done before

Capturing expert uncertainty: ICC-informed soft labelling for volcano-seismicity - Bulletin of Volcanology Reliable classification of volcano-seismic signals underpins monitoring and eruption forecasting and is an essential tool for advancing understanding of subsurface processes. However, traditional appr...

Great to see this new work by Sam Mitchinson published this week! He quantified the uncertainty in expert classification of volcano seismic events, with important implications for ML model accuracy. 🌋

🌋 Excited to share my new essay in Aeon: one of the most underappreciated global risks isn’t an asteroid or supervolcano—it’s the eruptions we don’t see coming:

Snap, crackle and pop!

Love the booming explosions from the summit vent in the background.

The Southeast Crater - youngest and most active of the four summit craters of #Etna - producing Strombolian explosions and a lava flow on the evening of 24 August 2025. The current summit eruption started on 14 August. Photo taken from Nicolosi on Etna's south flank.

#Etna again!!! 🌋🤩
Credits: Emilio Messina Photography

Global Volcanism Program | Has volcanic activity been increasing? Answers to commonly asked questions about Holocene volcanoes and their eruptions based on data from Volcanoes of the World

The GVP have a really great plot on their website for volcanic activity over time. volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cf...