#Cumbre Vieja

Volcano Watch: Establishing a nascent monitoring program on Pico Basile Volcano, Equatorial Guinea

A collaboration between the UNGE, the USAID-USGS VDAP, and US scientists through the Fulbright Specialist Program has culminated in the first volcano-monitoring program in Equatorial Guinea

Volcano Watch: Iceland’s recent eruption a reminder of lava flow hazards

In each of these places—on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Kīlauea in 2018, Cumbre Vieja, and Nyiragongo—the impact of the eruption extends far beyond the margins of the lava flow.  Large numbers of nearby residents have been displaced, and their lives severely disrupted, even if the flow spared their property. 

Volcano Watch: The 2018 eruption of Kīlauea was big on a global scale

usands of residents. The voluminous lava flow had a major impact on the Island of Hawaiʻi, but how does it compare to other lava flow eruptions on Earth in recent history?