VolcanoWatch [19 June 2010]

Manam Volcano Exhales a Faint Plume

Manam Volcano released a faint plume on June 16, 2010. Image  acquired by ALI on NASA’s EO-1 satellite. Located about 13 kilometers off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the 1,807m high Manam forms a 10-km wide island and two summit craters. Source: NASA E/O. Click image to enlarge. Download large image (4 MB, JPEG)

Summary of Weekly Volcanic Activity Report

[Source: SI/USGS]

New Activity/Unrest (9 June – 15 June 2010)

• Bezymianny, Central Kamchatka (Russia) – [Group J]
• Cleveland, Chuginadak Island  [Group H]
• Melimoyu, Southern Chile  [Group D]
• Pacaya, Guatemala  [Group F]
• San Cristóbal, Nicaragua  [Group F]
• Sarigan, Mariana Islands (Central Pacific) – [Group L]
• Tiatia, Kunashir Island [Group J]
• Tungurahua, Ecuador [Group D]
• Ulawun, New Britain [Group K]

Map of Volcanoes. Background Map: University of Michigan. Designed and enhanced by Fire Earth Blog. Click image to enlarge.

Ongoing Activity:

• Bagana, Bougainville
• Batu Tara, Komba Island (Indonesia)
• Dukono, Halmahera
• Eyjafjallajökull, Southern Iceland
• Fuego, Guatemala
• Gaua, Banks Islands (SW Pacific)
• Karymsky, Eastern Kamchatka (Russia)
• Kilauea, Hawaii
• Kliuchevskoi, Central Kamchatka (Russia)
• Popocatépetl, México
• Sakura-jima, Kyushu
• Shiveluch, Central Kamchatka (Russia)
• Soufrière Hills, Montserrat

For additional information, see source.

Related Links:

• Taal Volcano Alert Raised to Level 2 ‎
• Philippines Taal Volcano Could Erupt Anytime

More Links:

• VolcanoWatch [1 June 2010]

• Messages From Earth’s Powerhouse
• Weekly Volcano Watch: 19 March 2009

• A New Era of Intense Volcanic Unrest May Have Begun
• Tonga’s Metis Shoal may be erupting
• Rumble III Volcano “blew its top!”

FEWW Volcanic Activity Forecast

• Sumatra’s Mt Kerinci Erupts

• Volcano Watch Weekly: 23 April 2009

• Weekly Volcano Watch: 16 April 2009
• Weekly Volcano Watch: 2 April 2009

• FEWW Volcano Links
• Volcanoes
• FEWW Earthquake Links

• Earth’s Climate: A Solar Powered System

Other Related Links:

• U.S. Volcano Status Map
• Elevated Activity Page
• U.S. Volcano Webcams

System 94L and Tropical Storm Blas – GOES-13 Image

The War of the Storms May Have Begun

Tropical storm Blas and System 94L via GOES 13

GOES East 1 km Infrared Weather Satellite Image

Tropical storm Blas is seen in the lower LHC, and System 94L in the lower RHC. Source: NASA.

Near Real-Time Image by GOES 13

• Additional channels:   Infrared Water Vapor

Visible Image centered at  16.79° N, 66.17° W (about 180 km south of San Juan, Puerto Rico).

Tropical Storm Celia (04E)

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Celia has just been formed  in the Pacific off the southern coast of Mexico and is expected to become a hurricane with the next 24 hours.

Location: Near 12.4N 98.0W AT 21:00UTC on June 19, 2010

Related Links:

• Tropical Storm Blas Roves in Eastern Pacific

Tropical Storm Blas Roves in Eastern Pacific

A ‘T’ Shy of a Blast, Tropical Storm Blas Headed for Open Waters

Tropical Storm Blas. IR/WV Diff. Source CIMSS. Click image to enlarge.

A natural-color satellite image of Blas acquired by MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite on June 17, 2010.

CO2 forcing deadly changes in the oceans

Rising GHG is choking the oceans, devastating marine ecosystems and destroying the food chain: Study

Quote of the Day:

“We are becoming increasingly certain that the world’s marine ecosystems are approaching tipping points. These tipping points are where change accelerates and causes unrelated impacts on other systems.” John F. Bruno, marine researcher at the University of North Carolina.

Related Links:

• May Global Temperature Warmest on Record
• Ocean Accumulated Significant Heat Content Since 1993
• Verifiable Impacts of Climate Change (Part II)
• Verifiable Impacts of Climate Change Despite Dinosaurs

• Ocean Deserts Source of GHG
• North Atlantic Ocean Garbage Patch
• Back from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
• WILD FACTS SERIES: Our Oceans Are Dying!
• Southern Ocean already losing ability to absorb CO₂

• Tourism: A Major Destructive Force Killing Oceans:Thousands of marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds and others, are choked or poisoned each year by eating trash discarded in the ocean…

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part V : Hundreds of thousands of tons of surplus chemical weapons including large quantities of arsenic, cyanide, mustard gas, sarin gas and VX nerve gas are dumped off the US Atlantic coast as well as off other countries. [And a number of nuclear weapons are lying down there, too!]

• Terrible Ocean Headlines : About one third of the world’s annual emissions of CO2 is absorbed by the surface of the oceans forming carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid), H₂CO_3, which is increasing the acidity of the oceans to as much as 7.7 pH in some areas off the California coast. [Pre-industrial (1700s) ocean pH: 8.179]

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part IV : Researchers found evidence of corrosive water about 20 miles off the west coast of North America from Canada to Mexico.

• Human carbon emissions make oceans corrosive : ‘Carbon dioxide spewed by human activities has made ocean water so acidic that it is eating away at the shells and skeletons of starfish, coral, clams and other sea creatures …’

• The Eight Steps that Help Kill More of Our Fish : How Your Car’s Exhaust Emissions Helps Create Dead Zones and Kill Our Fish.

• Global warming could starve oceans of oxygen: study : Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently in line with rising temperatures.

• The Floating Toxic Garbage Island : A patch of garbage twice as large as the continental United States and dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in North Pacific Gyre.

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part III : Tourism: The Most Destructive Human Activity After Warfare

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part II : Major Problems: Fertilizer Runoff; Tourism; Coastal Developments [and Ocean Warming due to climate change]

• Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part I : Our Oceans Are Now Dying!

• Dead Zones : Eutrophication—the overenrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—has emerged as a leading water quality problem. This report identifies over 415 areas worldwide that are experiencing eutrophication symptoms, and there are significant information gaps in many regions. (Source: WRI)