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Spirit Lake

Spirit Lake sits just North of America's most famous active volcano, Mount St. Helens1. The most catastrophic eruption of Mount St Helens was in May of 1980, which killed 57 people. A side effect of this…

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Thursday, 20th March 2008

John Frum Day

Today on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, it's John Frum Day. Each year on the 15th of February, hundreds of people come to the tiny village of Lamakara from all over the…

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Friday, 15th February 2008

The Sidoarjo Mud Flow

This is the Sidoarjo Mud Flow, a massive eruption of gas and hot torrential mud in East Java, Indonesia. Despite a network of dams and barriers having been erected to contain the flood, as of February…

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Tuesday, 6th November 2007

Easter Island (Island Week 2)

(It’s Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week.) Located in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, almost four thousand kilometers from continental Chile, Easter Island -…

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Thursday, 30th August 2007

1st Annual Island Week!

After the roaring success of Annual Volcano Day a while back we're adding a new event to the GGSS calendar - Island Week! For the rest of the week (or until we get bored) we'll be…

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Monday, 28th August 2006

Mount Bromo and the Mystery Grids

I realise we've had quite a few volcanoes this week, but you guys keep submitting them, so here's just one more. This is the Mount Bromo in the Tenggar caldera, Indonesia, which I think looks fantastic…

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Friday, 23rd June 2006

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