VolcanoWatch Weekly [2 July 2010]

Summary of Weekly Volcanic Activity Report

[Source: SI/USGS]

New Activity/Unrest (23 June – 29 June 2010)

• Gorely, Southern Kamchatka (Russia) —  [Group J]
• Pagan, Mariana Islands (Central Pacific) — [Group L]
• Tungurahua, Ecuador [Group D]
• Ulawun, New Britain   [Group K]

NOTE: More volcanic activity/unrest may be expected in areas/groups shown in red.

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

Ongoing Activity:

• Dukono, Halmahera
• Eyjafjallajökull, Southern Iceland
• Karymsky, Eastern Kamchatka (Russia)
• Kilauea, Hawaii (USA)
• Kirishima, Kyushu
• Kliuchevskoi, Central Kamchatka (Russia)
• Sakura-jima, Kyushu
• Shiveluch, Central Kamchatka (Russia)

For additional information, see source.

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

Other Volcano 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

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

Penn cattle quarantined over gas drilling ‘Diarrhea water’

Pennsylvania officials have quarantined 28 cows suspected of drinking toxic waste ‘Diarrhea water’ from gas drilling

“The cows had access for at least three days to a pool that formed from a leaking waste water holding pond on a farm in Tioga County, north-central Pennsylvania, where East Resources Inc is drilling into the Marcellus Shale formation,” Reuters reported.

Subsequent tests showed the water contained a smorgasbord  of toxic chemicals including chloride, magnesium, potassium and strontium, according to the Agriculture Department.

More…

A glass of water taken from a residential well after the start of natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania, March 7, 2009. Dimock is one of hundreds of sites in Pennsylvania where energy companies are now racing to tap the massive Marcellus Shale natural gas formation. But some residents say the drilling has clouded their drinking water, sickened people and animals and made their wells flammable. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer. Image may be subject to copyright.

Other Oil/Gas Drilling Pollution Headlines

• Environmental groups filed suit against BP Plc on Wednesday seeking to halt controlled burnings of spilled oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico because they say endangered sea turtles are being burned alive in the process.

• Oil spill’s toll on birds set to drastically soar

Related Links:

• ‘Diarrhea water’
• NY sanity questioned as state plan shale gas drilling
• EPA admits water contaminated near gas-drilling sites
• Residents of Dimock in rural Pennsylvania sue Cabot Oil & Gas Corp
• Big Oil Itching to Drill to the Last Straw

• Exxon Pays Peanuts to the Monkeys
• Magnitude 4.0 quake hits Utah near gas fields
• Oil Drilling Likely Caused Texas Earthquake
• NY Quakes Probably Gas Drilling Related