Flores is a treasure box. It is one of the Lesser Sunda islands of Indonesia, and island arcs stretching for over 1000 kilometers east of Java. The name ‘Flores’ is Portuguese in origin. It refers ...

The lava flow running east is the one produced in January-March. The blacker ash covers around 20km>sup>2 in this image. That suggests a volume of 0.01 to 0.001 km 3: no more than a VEI 2. The convent ...

A trivia question: can you name the largest country without an active volcano? Here ‘active’ includes ‘dormant’: it is about volcanoes that have access to live magma and could in principle erupt, even ...