Programming note for this week: I'll be headed off to criss-cross North Carolina for a number of events over the next week, so posts this week might be sporadic. I have a post or two ready to roll (including a follow up to "Falling to Lava") but if something new occurs, I might not be too quick about getting something posted if I'm in the middle of nowhere between Fayetteville and Wilmington. You can check out an interview I did with CTV.ca on the "impending doom" from Laacher See - sadly, the Daily Mail article did get the sort of widespread attention that I feared it might garner.
A few Eruptions readers pointed me to information about the ongoing and increasing activity at Lewotolo (also known as Lewotolok) in Indonesia. Unlike other times when Indonesian volcanoes have been restless, the 500+ evacuees around Lewotolo left before the government asked - ...
