http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-tours/volcano_news/kamchatka/?&L=1

How come people move to a place where there is even a remote possibility of a volcano being there? It just seems like a bad idea if you ask me.

How come people move to places where hurricanes can and do hit every year, sometimes several times a year? Why do people move to where Tornadoes are prevalent? Nowhere is really safe from, extreme weather. Colorado gets major snow which can and does kill people, deserts have their own sets of problems, and an earthquake can hit anywhere as well.

I moved to the Puget Sound area because it’s very beautiful, and because my dad retired there ;). There are multiple potential volcanoes in the area, but I live far enough from any of them that they would not present a problem to me. And prevailing winds are westerly, so most ash and smoke would blow in the opposite direction, meaning areas NOT prone to volcanoes would suffer worse effects than I likely would.

Mosher, don’t pretend your sarcasm has an OFF switch. Or a circuit breaker. ;-)

i don’t really know how to read what someone posts if they want to comment back (I’m a little knew to the blogging thing here) but if you want to say anything or talk or anything at all, my blog is: http://www.staticity.wordpress.com

http://flickr.com/photos/starlisa/sets/72157602979010067/show/

REPLY: Thanks David. I’m very familiar with lenticular clouds, and they tend to be stationary with a finite dry line just past the point where the compression wave ends. The sat photos of Ross Island don’t look like this, but look more like the result of steam that has turned to ice crystals and been blown downwind.

The official “explanation from MEVO’s director is “cirrus blowoff”.

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Search for Lenticular clouds or standing waves.

Philip B.,

Not necessarily true. Hawaii, Kilauea is erupting and at the same time the big island and the new undersea volcanoes are erupting or will erupt. All one hot spot. see Google Earth

Typically, a group of volcanoes like this are formed by a single mantle plume migrating over time. That means only one of them is over the mantle plume at any time and only that one will erupt.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/RossIslandMap.jpg

I think that’s exactly what Kyle meant. Note his reference to “wind and cloud conditions.” These are cirrus streams in the lee of the mountains.

REPLY: I just heard back from him on clarification, and that is what he meant.

http://www.geology.ubc.ca/courses/atsc201/A201Resources/SatStormInterpTutorial/SatStormImageInterp

Could he have meant cirrus?

Even, Same magma chamber equals the same volcano. This could be a single volcano with two vents, albeit twenty miles apart but considering Toba and Yellow Stone a definite possibility.