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21 August 2008 - I added the very active Chaitén blog at "Inglaner.com" to the camera section for Chaitén in my Volcanoes with CAMS sections. If you can read Spanish, it won't be a problem.

If you want a Sunrise/Sunset table for a year, you can have one calculated at the USNO.

And thanks to Google Earth and "AIP Chile", I found a webcam pointed at the volcano Osorno from the Chilean airport at "Puerto Montt". If the current view is terrible, you can choose "Cámera Norte" and see the last 36 images. The distance is 63 km, so, it isn't a photo moment like the old view from Ensenada was. The volcano Calbuco is also visible on the right hand edge of the North pointing webcam. It is also a distant view at 43 km. The volcanoes are not identified in the reference photo; however, the Smithsonian GVP lists Osorno with a height of 8701 ft and Calbuco with a height of 6571 ft. There aren't any other choices to the North East of Puerto Montt.

15 August 2008 - The Smithsonian GVP is massively fubared at this point. For example, if you click on my link for "Chaitén", you end up at at random volcanos. My current test sent me to the San Quintín Volcanic Field in México. The vnum for Chaitén and the URL of my link is to1508-041 and the vnum for the "San Quintín Volcanic Field" is 1401-002. A day or so ago, the link http://www.volcano.si.edu/ did not exist. So we must have a massive computer failure on their end. All we can do is be patient. I will removed this when everything works. If you want to find the information for a specific volcano, the search at "Find a Volcano by Name" works.

5 August 2008 - I am evaluating a webcam at the Chaitén airport. The link is on the bottom of the "Volcanoes with CAMS". I found the reference on "Fresh Bilge". It also had a link to "The Volcanism Blog". There is also a link to "activolcans.info". It is only in French but volcanic terms are so similar to Spanish and English that I feel I can read and understand much of what is written; however, it also seems to have very current information for all of my volcanoes of interest. They respond to suggested changes as fast as Stromboli Online does. Stromboli Online doesn't cover many of the volcanoes in Latina America that I am interested in.

10 May 2008 - Information on the Chilean volcano, Chaitén, can be found on SERNAGEOMIN.cl.

24 April 2008 - POVI in Chile has a webcam on Llaima. It also lists one for Villarrica but all I have seen is clouds.

28 January 2008 - I was visiting www.ingeominas.gov.co to see what Galeras was doing and found a new link to Stromboli .org. It has section called Volcanoreport.com. It has every volcano webcam site that I have ever visited plus a few new ones. Some links are out of date but you can find the new ones easily enough.

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Volcanos With Cams

Originally, this was not a list I developed but one that had been gathered from visiting other sites. This page just made it easier for me to get to them. Then, I found that I had much newer data than my sources. The chief reason for the existence of this web page was that Stromboli Online was not available when I wanted to use it. A connection over a 1000baseT network was also much faster. One thing I have found is that Stromboli Online will update their webcam page very quickly, so, if I find a new webcam, I pass the information on to them.

The order started out as my preference of visiting but when I got past 4 of them, the new ones were added at the end. Eventually, the important 4 made it to the top. Then, Mt. St. Helens started erupting again and the TELMEX site became a link below the UNAM.mx El Popocatépetl reference. There are several views of Popo because the two web site provide 3 different angles of view. The TELMEX sites also update around once a minute, which is pretty close to realtime as far as viewing a volcano is concerned.

Yellowstone's Old Faithful Sunrise/set table West Yellowstone Weather Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Yellowstone is doing interesting things because over the last 19 months, there has been an uplift of 17cm at the WLWY station.	CENAPRED's El Popocatépetl. 12 August 2006 - I had recently read a bad automated translation of the current report for "Volcán de Colima" and just had to read the "Latest report" for Popo, which is in English, to see how their translation went. In the past, the translation was almost always correct but was frequently badly phrased, a problem I have writting Spanish. This time, however, the translation was really good and sounded like a native English speaker had written the translation. TELMEX Web Cam. Telmex has changed their site. "Esto es Telmex" now presents you with a section called "Más acerca de Telmex" where you select "Vialidad y Popocatépetl". On the top right is an image of Popo. You must select "ver cámeras". Then, you must select a camera to see the current image in realtime. Sunrise/set table
Volcán de fuego de Colima Sunrise/set table There are 2 webcams, that update frequently, from the "Monitoreo visual" location. I have found that only "Cámera BC" works with the web browsers that I use. BC is also available as the "Imagen en vivo". There are frequent bulletins (Informes de Actividad Volcánica) on the State of Colima's web site. Naranjal and Nevado have left over webcam images but they haven't been updated since 2006. Visit volcandecolima for a photogallery and other information. The incandescant rocks image was used with the permission of the photographer. You should also visit the new web site at www.volcandecolima.com. Tapiro has a number of interesting "fotos". He is now selling prints, for a reasonable price, and so, on his new web page, he is protecting the larger versions. Some have a Photoshop copyright symbol in the center of the photo and others have added information such as "www.volcandecolima.com" at a less intrusive location of every print.	USDA Forest Service Mt. St. Helens Webcam The USGS News and Current Events web site has a handy set of links for Mt. St. Helens. Until it finds a spot, there are webcams at Paradise on Mt. Rainier. You have to look for the heading "Live Web Cameras at Paradise".
Crater Lake Cam The web cam at Osorno, Chile is dead and Xantera Parks & Resorts now have a cam at Crater Lake, Oregon. BTW, the current view is not this good.	San Salvador The image link takes you to the La Prensa Gráfica web site. The web cam link is much harder to find; however, it is in a section called "De Interés" where it is identified as"Cámara en vivo". I look for a little symbol that resembles a web cam you stick on your monitor. Santa Ana (Ilamatepec) erupted on 1 October 2005. It deposited ash nearby and threw ballistics for 2km. SNET in El Salvador is the reference site for the Salvadoran volcanos.
New Zealand´s Ruapehu	INETER's Nicaraguan Volcanoes Since San Cristobal started erupting on 21 April 2006, I have found linking to the INETER home page was more useful than the image index page, which is where you go when you click the thumbnail of the volcano.
Two cams from Albanet.com	INGV's Italian Volcanoes Cam page The cams are now located on a drop down menus off of "Rete di telecamere".
Galeras in Columbia Image © Copyright 2005 INGEOMINAS. - Colombia - Derechos Reservados. For more information on Galeras or Huila, you should visit www.ingeominas.gov.co They don't have many bulletines on Huila but they do have some recent images. You can look for "sobre el volcán nevado del Huila" and follow "leer mas" to read more information.	The webcam at Lake Nyos, Cameroon is back in operation. Not only is it back in operation but they are cleaning the lens. The new site seemed to attract dirt on the lens and the view would seriously degrade over time.
Volcán de Llaima en Chile POVI ("Proyecto Observación Visual Volcán Villarrica") is making serious changes. POVI has a webcam on Villarrica but I have not seen the volcano on it for weeks. There is a perpetual cloud in front of the camera.	Volcán de Chaitén View of Chaitén from the airport. To get to the camera, you have to click the photo and then scroll down the list to Chaitén and select Norte. There are 3 cameras with views to the North, North-East, and South-East. I understand Chaitén is in the North view. There are ways to take you directly in but I consider them to be hijacking their image. The Smithsonian´s GVP website for Chaitén. A very active blog on Chaitén is by "inglaner.com".

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

You can follow my hot spots such as the Montserrat volcano , the older Long Valley caldera , or the new Long Valley Special Map , and the Yellowstone Park caldera . For an idea of what Montserrat was like before the devastation visit SEI's Montserrat project (See Ecological Impacts Of The Montserrat Volcano ). SEI also have a number of other interesting projects and are worth a visit just to see what research is going on. I'm not a Tree-Hugger but I find what they do interesting.

Most earthquakes are caused by the same process that causes the Pacific Rim volcanoes. NEIC supplies e-mail notices for earthquakes. They have limits on sizes; however, if you know where the earthquake occured, you can follow it with more detail on the main site for the region. This list is a work in progress. Many of the new links were found on the web site by the University of Chile. Unfortunately, many of them do not work and this gives me working space that I can get to from any place in the world.

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Volcano Links

This is a new section. It was created because there are a number of links available but many are not functional. Some are supposed to have web cams, which is one of my primary interests. The regions I am interested in are the Americas. So, if I miss one in the Phillipines, for example, I would like to know about it but I wouldn't be searching for it.

Many of these web pages are not in English; however, you can probably understand 80% of the site because of the similarity of terminology that is shared between all of the languages.

If a site adds a web cam, then it would be added to my cam section. Some sites, such as the Montserrat site have had web cams but the images are no longer available. A web cam can consume precious resources and, from personal observations, the pipe line into Montserrat can not be very large. Maintaining a site also consumes resources and is not the primary business of the volcano sites.

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Volcano Reference Sites

There is only 1 master site on volcanoes and that is the Smithsonian's GVP. It was recently modified and has more information than you ever wanted to know and most of the good links to go along with it. If you want to learn about a volcano, you should visit SI's GVP first.

I found a reference to 2 new sites on the SNET site in El Salvador. Vicky Volka is production by the University of Quebec at Montreal. I don't read French very well but will go back to see how much I can understand. The other site is Noaa's SSD web site. The Noaa site will play loops of current satelite images. The volcano tab has links to numerous volcano web sites.

If you want images of volcanoes, there is a web site called Volcano Stock Photography that has more than a million images. They are expensive for home use but if you are looking for something to publish, the price isn't that bad.

What I have gotten interested in is realtime video. The number of choices is small and the volcanoes I am interested in have been covered by 4 sites. They do not have cams but are links to places that do. The first is Stromboli online in Switzerland. It is my primary list of Volcano Cams. I have my name on their list of people supplying information. Next, comes the Cascade Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington. CVO has more cams than Stromboli Online does. The links are easier to get to on SO because of the use of "anchors". I use "anchors" on this page to make navigation easier.

A long time ago, I only used 3 sites but then I started browsing some of the pages on Volcanoes.ca. It is a reference site that is the creation of Glyn William-Jones. I have been visiting this site for a long time and have followed it as it has moved around the world. It is one of the sites that I found as an out of date links on some of the various volcano web pages. I first encountered it when I visited the Arenal site as a link from Geoff Mackley's web site. Williams-Jones has a link to a web site by Michael L. Smith called COCORI Complete Costa Rica. The really interesting part to me is his photo-gallery on Arenal.

The last site is Volcano Live by John Seach. Seach's site seems to have information on activity before anyone else does. The only time it doesn't is when he is on an expedition. Unfortunately, that can be for what seems to be a month at times. That is often enough; however, it is a good point to start. The only problem is that he doesn't point you to a reference. You have to know where the volconologists for the volcano have their web page(s) and that is where sites such as the Smithsonian and Glyn William-Jones web sites come into useage. They provide links to the real experts for the volcano. Seach's web site seems to be hit so often because you can readily understand what he is talking about. If you don't, everywhere you go there are links to explainations.

Mackley first caught my attention when he photographed volcano expeditions by Seach. An expedition without documentation is a campfire story. You have to see some of the things that Geoff Mackley has done. A clue to where Mackley has been is a photo of him in what looks like Vietnam with an automatic rifle in his left hand and a video camera in his right hand. Some of his volcano expeditions are not any less dangerous. See the section on volcano images and especially the one on Costa Rica's Arenal volcano. The 1st image shows Arenal in a similar disposition to México´s volcano at Colima. He had some storm chasing vehicles built that look like they could drive into a Typhoon and survive.

Stromboli Online has redone their web site. It is sort of the European version of Volcano World but back when VW was really actively maintained. VW also appeared to be oriented to younger students and they may not understand SO. There is something for everyone. I had been using the SO webcam site for years before I ever made it to their home page. My principal source of VolcanoCams of the World was on their site. If you send in enough corrections or new sites to them, they add your name to the list. My name is on the list.

I was checking the SO section and decided to re-visit Volcano World. It has moved to Oregon State University. It was originally created as a "Public Outreach Project" with a lot of material for K-12 students.

There are numerous pages with links. One of the largest is Vic Camp's "Volcano Links". The problem with having so many links is that they go bad faster than you can keep up with them. It has been a long since I first heard the term "URL Rot" but it describes the situation better than any other comment. Even with URL Rot, the list is still a really good idea because once you have an idea what the name of the page is, you can use most of the major search engines to find the current location. An example of URL Rot is all of the references to photographs of the 1995 eruption of the Nicaraguan volcano Cerro Negro by Benjamin VanWyk de Vries. He is no longer at the Open University in the UK and his web site appeared to have disappeared.

The first images I encountered of the 2002 eruption of Mt.Etna were at La Sicilia. They have long since vanished. At that time, I found a number of web sites on Etna. In sort of the order of discovery, they are: Vulcano Etna, Italy's Volcanoes, Thorsten Boeckel, and Charles Rivière. The only way to describe these sites is to use the term mega-site because the information and the numbers of links to other web pages is more than you can follow. Of this group, Boris Behncke's "Italy's Volcanoes" is the most structured with a clean separation of resources for each volcano. It ceased to be maintained in 2005 and he points you to Rivière's web site.

As a personal preference, Boeckel's photos showing the hot lava fountains were the most impressive to me. A simple change of shutter speed or aperature alters the view. The views of the lights of Catania behind the crater with a lava fountain were classic. Reading Boeckel´s English is a little bit difficult at times but you have to try because you want to know where they come from. One of the individuals on Boeckel's web page brought 1 kg of 6x7 film with him. That is a lot of 120 or 220 film. A roll of 120 film has the same surface area as an 8" x 10" negative and a roll of 220 is 2x larger than 120. If you have ever wondered why Ansel Adams' photographs of Yosemite were so awesome, you only have to see him on top of his automobile with his 8x10 view camera. It was huge. Some of the new 6x7 cameras are SLRs and simply look like a 35mm on Steroids. They are small in a comparison with a large format camera, which are defined as starting at 4x5 or 8x10.

On Rivière's web site was a link to Volcanic Images Magazine. If the writing in French, German, or Italian bothers you, visit WordReference and install a clickable translation program. You select the word in your web-browser, right click it, and you are presented with a choice of translations. As an additional choice, I happen to like the FreeLang Dictionary. I can use it as a standalone dictionary. In the search mode, all you have to do is be close and it places you in that section of the dictionary. Many of the scientific terms are not in the Spanish - English translation and FreeLang will let you edit the dictionaries. Getting a definition from Larousse's Escolar diccionario to a brief translation in English can be interesting. I don't have similar English -[French, or Italian] dictionaries.

The number of awesome photographs on these web pages is simply beyond counting. Instead of just a few lucky people with cameras, almost anyone can get a world class photograph. If they couldn´t get to the top, there are views of the lava progressing into the lower valleys that are interesting. La Sicilia, for example, has a number of photographs of buildings from what I think is Santa Venerina that appear to have been damaged by the earthquake that accompanied the eruption. They have emergency tents with ash on the roofs. They also have a sequence of a ~3m wall of lava progressing through a local forest. The Sicilians have to feel like the people living in a 100km radius around Mt. St. Helens when it erupted in 1980. I can remember photographs in the newspaper of people removing the ash from the roof of their homes, cars, and etc. It was a mess. Locally, the major towns were all isolated by ash fall and no one drove anywhere for around 2 weeks.

Boeckel´s World Volcanoes web page, has a link to some photographs taken at the Refugio on El Popocatépetl just 3 days (1-3-96 or 1 Mar 1996) before it started errupting. If you pay attention, just to the right of Bernhard Bauer in one of the photographs is the volcano climbing dog that followed them to the top. CENAPRED lists the height of Popo as 5,452 msnm or 17,887 feet. What I found interesting is that the photographs of their climb to the top shows why you can not see the snow and ice at this time. CENAPRED maintains the top of Popcatépetl is permanent snow and ice and I have only seen occasional snow coverage. I found out that it is there, you just can not see it for the ash.

If a new eruption or seismic event is associated with a volcano that you are unfamiliar with, you should visit the Smithsonian. Their section on "Volcanic Activity Report" is the standard reference list used by all of the other sites. Since they cover the world, the specific volcano web page tends to lag behind the local site for each volcano or some of the personal pages on volcanos. The problem is finding a starting point and I have decided that the SI's GVP site is it.

You may find that you need more than one web browser to view the cams. The Russian volcano sites such as Kliuchevskoi, for example, used to not work with Netscape and you had to use Microsoft´s Internet Explorer.

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