Busy weekend (well, mostly grading, but that does eat time like you wouldn't believe), so here are some quick hits from the news file:
Busy Indonesia: As people begin to return to the area near Sinabung, two more Indonesian volcanoes begin to make more noise. Merapi was closed to climbers over the weekend due to increased threat of an eruption while Karangetang was elevated to orange status due to increasing signs of an impending eruption. Both are very active volcanoes ... and speaking of Indonesia eruption, there was an interesting historical article that talked about the migration of New Englanders to Ohio after the Tambora eruption of 1815 - a nice link between human migration and an eruption on the other side of the planet.
Using stress to find the eruption: There is a new study in Nature Geosciences that talks to the relationship between stress in the Earth's crust ...
