FEBRUARY FOURTH 1995

THE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY OF VULCAN VOLCANO, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Born Feb.4,1878 Details of the eruption by eye-witnesses.

References

Submarine volcanic eruptions in Papua New Guinea, in R. W. Johnson editor, Cooke-Ravian volume of volcanological papers, Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea, Memoir 10,1981, pp.168-169.

FEBRUARY FOURTH 1995

THE FORTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY OF THE BAYONNAISE ROCKS ERUPTION LAT 31.95 LONG 140.02

Born Feb 4±4 1946 Exposed part of a 10 km wide caldera. short lived islands have been built in 3 of the eruptions since 1896.
  • Global Volcanism . McClelland,Simkin, Summers, Nielsen and Stein, editors, 1989 p. 287.

    FEBRUARY ELEVENTH, 1995

    THE FORTIETH BIRTHDAY OF CONES 4 and 5 TULUMAN, VOLCANO, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

    Born February 11, 1955, in the North Bismark Sea. Cones Four and Five,the first surface outbreaks at two of the six sites from which igneous products were emitted, collectively called the volcano Tuluman. In the period 1953-1957 the submarine activity gave rise to two islands Of the eight sites of submarine activity all but Cones 1 and 6 gave rise to land above sealevel. Between 1954-1957 six cones (designated Cones 2,3,4,5,7A,7B) appeared at one or another time above sea level in this area. The birthdays of all these cones have been recorded.here. There are some who would catagorize all the cone eruptions as being part of a single volcanic eruption. All emitted solid or liquid igneous material above sea level; are not at the same site as, or on the flanks of a subaerial volcano. These attributes qualify them as being "New Volcanoes" 
    		PERIODS OF ACTIVITY OF THE TULUMAN CONES                                  

Cone Place  Period         		Weeks	Type of Activity

1	A	27 June-6 July 1953	  	11/2	Submarine*
	D	20 Oct.-6 Nov. 1954  	2/1/2	Submarine
	E	16 May-6 June 1955  	3		Submarine
	E	6-20 June 1955	 		2		Minor explosive and vapour
	F	20 Sept. 1955					Vapour emission
		TD = 2 yr 3 mth

2	B	14 Nov. 1953-18 Feb.1954  14	Submarine (Intermittent)
	C	9-11 and 21-27 July 1954  11/2	Submarine reaching surface 11 July
	E	10-12 Feb. 1955			  1/2	Minor explosive
		TD = 1 yr 3 mth

3	C	11-14 July 1954			  1/2	Surface explosive
		TD = 3 days
1/2
4	E	11-15 Feb. 1955			  1/2	Surface explosive
	F	21 July-2 Aug.1955		  2		Minor axplosive & vapour
	F	15 Oct.-25 Nov.1955	  	  4		Minor axplosive & vapour
	G	24 Nov.-4 Dec.1956		  1		Minor axplosive & vapour
		TD = 1 yr 10 mth

5	E	11-13 and 16-23 Feb. 1955 11/2	Submarine, reaching surface
	E	24 Feb.-11 Mar. 1955      2		Surface explosive & effusive
		TD = 1 mth

6	E	12 Mar.-9 May 1955		  9		Submarine (Intermittent)
		TD = 2 mth

-	F	26-28 Sept., 3-7 Oct. 1955  1	Submarine

7A	G	7-26 Nov. 1956		3	Mainly vapour emission
	G	27 Nov.-11 Dec. 1956	  2		Surface explosive

7G	G	30 Nov.-2 Dec. 1956		  1/2 	Submarine
	G	11 Dec. 1956-28 Jan. 1957 7  	Surface effusive & minor explosive
		TD = 2~1/2mth
    Reynolds, M.A., Best, J.G. ,Johnson, R.W.., !953-57 eruption of Tuluman Volcano: rhyolitic volcanic volcanic activity in the northen Bismarck Sea, Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea, Memoir 7, 1980.

    FEBRUARY TWENTIETH 1995

    THE FIFTY SECOND BIRTHDAY OF PARÍCUTIN VOLCANO, MEXICO

    Born Feb. 20, 1943, Parícutin is now 424 meters above the surroundings. There are no recorded eruptions since the period of activity 1943-March,4,1952 During this period the volcano was closely and continually monitored, chiefly by scientists of the U S Geological Survey. Among the geologists monitoring and studying the volcano were the Mexican gelogist, Dr.Esequiel Ordó:ñez and Gutiérrez, Foshag,Wilcox, Segerstrom and Fries of the U.S. Geological Survey. Information about these geologists is included in the Paríutin monograph of Luhr and Simkin. Fumarole tempertures at the Ahuan vent in November1985 were as high as 473 degrees C., higher than the last time mesasured in April 1983 and had declined to in 1976 The event was witnessed by the owner of the farm, Dionisio Pulido. He described seeing a hole in the ground, the ground rising 2 or 21/2 meters and ash coming from the crack. Foshag, usgs bull and Segerstrom

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    FEBRUARY TWENTY-THIRD 1995

    THE TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY OF IZALCO VOLCANO, EL SALVADOR

    Born Feb. 23,1770. Some have said 1769, but it is unlikely.

    Now 1965 m above the surroundings. There were strong earthquakes at the end of 1769. Last eruption Oct. 30, 1966

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    Last revision Aug. 9. 1995