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CalVO Scientists Present Work at International 2016 AGU Fall Meeting

CalVO Scientists Present Work at International 2016 AGU Fall Meeting

Fifteen CalVO scientists will present work this week at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, held in San Francisco, California.

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Volcanic hazards in the long term: 3rd Volcano Observatory Best Practices (VOBP) workshop

Volcanic hazards in the long term: 3rd Volcano Observatory Best Practices (VOBP) workshop

Volcanologists from volcano observatories around the world met at the international Volcano Observatory Best Practices Workshop in Vancouver...

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Earthquake swarm near Salton Buttes is not volcanic

Earthquake swarm near Salton Buttes is not volcanic

An earthquake swarm started on 26 Sep 2016, 04:03AM PDT, and is ongoing in the Brawley Seismic Zone near the southern terminus of the San Andreas...

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What's Under Long Valley? Water, Heat, and Molten Rock!

What's Under Long Valley? Water, Heat, and Molten Rock!

A picture is worth a thousand words—USGS Post Doctoral Fellow Jared Peacock's new 3D geophysical model for the Long Valley Caldera and Mammoth...

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Young and Old Volcanoes East of the Sierra Nevada: New Map, Report and Public Events

Young and Old Volcanoes East of the Sierra Nevada: New Map, Report and Public Events

A new geologic map of the Long Valley Caldera, Mammoth Mountain, and the Middle Fork canyon of the San Joaquin River including Devils Postpile...

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Young and Old Volcanoes in Eastern California: New Map, Report and Public Events

Young and Old Volcanoes in Eastern California: New Map, Report and Public Events

A newly released geologic map and U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, Eruptive History of Mammoth Mountain and its Mafic Periphery, California...

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Fieldwork "Fun" Has Begun

Fieldwork "Fun" Has Begun

Summer has arrived, and for many CalVO scientists, so has the season of fieldwork. During the fall, winter and spring, many of California's volcanoes...

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The Short Story of Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley National Park

The Short Story of Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley National Park

New research by scientists at CalVO indicates that Ubehebe Craters formed about 2100 years ago during a single eruptive event. Ubehebe Craters are a...

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Monitoring California's active volcanoes—seismic unrest is on our radar

Monitoring California's active volcanoes—seismic unrest is on our radar

Earthquakes rocked residents near the towns of Mammoth Lakes and Big Pine in eastern California this month, including a magnitude 3.74 and 3.44 on...

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CalVO Fact Sheet Published En Español

CalVO Fact Sheet Published En Español

We are pleased to announce the Spanish translation of our recently published CalVO Fact Sheet The California Volcano Observatory – Monitoring the...

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New insight into faults in the Long Valley Caldera reduces the predicted earthquake shaking intensity

New insight into faults in the Long Valley Caldera reduces the predicted earthquake shaking intensity

The shaking hazard posed by earthquakes on range-front faults near the town of Mammoth Lakes, CA is lower than previously estimated.

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Field-trip guide for Lassen Volcanic Center published

Field-trip guide for Lassen Volcanic Center published

USGS geologists Patrick Muffler and Michael Clynne published a new geologic field-trip guide for areas in and around Lassen Volcanic National Park in...

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