Ring of Fire: Eastern Rumbles

The Ring of Fire is still where most of the action is on the big, erupting planet but the eastern portion takes over the list (the list was only "gone" for a day or so)this week. Kamchatka rules again with 5 volcanoes belching and spewing in various degrees with two neighbors erupting just south of there in the Kuril Islands. A little further south and Japan shows 3 on the list - the new island that formed off the SE coast is now bigger than the original island. Two Indonesian eruption are on the list with evacuations happening around Sinabung.  At the bottom of the ring, New Zealand's White Island has stirred back up.
Off the ring and on THE hot spot, Hawaii; Kilauea is spewing and burning nearby forests, not at all unusual for the worlds most active volcano. Etna's current eruption continues with lava and ash ejections on Sicily.  The western side of the ring only shows two eruptions this week: Santa Maria is oozing lava and raining ash on nearby villages in Guatemala and Reventador is back on the list after ash emissions in Ecuador.
Hope you're in a safe spot, far enough away from the action on the tectonic-ing planet, today on Earth.

No Volcanoes???

Perhaps the same folks responsible for the hard to use, ultra touchy, click, click, click, click, click to get the simplest info, impossible to zero in, USGS earthquake site have now taken over the volcano site. It would appear there is only one volcano active on Earth this week and that's in Spain. Spain???
I'm not buying that...but, perhaps the cold weather and snow in DeeCee have shut things down, the volcano website has some lovely pictures but no useful information, even on the one volcano that seems to be erupting in Spain.
We'll check back after the spring thaw.

Early '14 Volcano Stories

2013 wound down with the formation of a new island southeast of Japan (it has now issued enough new Earth to have joined into one with its neighboring island) and mostly the usual Ring of Fire suspects on the list. The new year brings no real surprises to the list; perhaps only 3 on the active list on the Kamchatka peninsula is a bit of a surprise. 3 in Indonesia's no real surprise although the newly stirring mountains have been off the list for some time.
Japan, the US and Central America all have two on the list, with PNG and South America also noted. Etna  and Kilauea remain the non-Ring exceptions but hardly surprising, both keep their  neighborhoods on alert/notice on an almost daily basis.
For those of us in non-explosive zones the days pass with little thought of mountains spewing ash and gas and molten rock. I, myself, like it that way although seeing one of those active spots on Earth remains on my "to do" list.
If you are in a position to check one out, go for it...but, be careful out there, today on Earth.