drone picture shows lava dome filled the crater of the Lewotobi volcano taken yesterday by Mbah Lurah. This might explain the initial Vulcanian phase of the large eruption occurred today.

Lewotobi, Flores, Indonesia - vulcanian to subplinian eruption with pyroclastic flows today
photo: @jose465886 twitter/X

The crowd of volcanologists!… the #IAVCEI2025 general assembly started with important messages such as “curiosity drives human progress…” and “science and education is the best investment to the future…”

Understanding processes in trans-crustal magma reservoirs - come and apply for a 2-3 years postdoctoral fellowship to a young Hungarian research group (pannonvulkan.hu)! Details of the MSCA programme are here: momentummsca.mta.hu contact: lukacs.reka@csfk.org

IAVCEI CVS goes to Hungary! A fantastic 5 days in the field to better understand deposition of volcanogenic sediments in the natural laboratory of the northern Pannonian Basin: from diatremes through ignimbrites to lahar and volcanogenic fluvial deposits with instructive discussions!

in the context of the new model by Evi Nomikou and Dimitris Papanikolaou (see Figure) this seismic pattern might be related to the sudden escape of fluids (possibly gases) from the magma body beneath Anhydros

something could occur NE from Santorini... current seismogram picture

It was a great honor to me that I was awarded the Scientist of the Year for Outreach in Hungary. In addition a minor planet discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky in 2011 was named after me, this is the 500 m wide 580619 Harangiszabolcs from the Inner Main-belt Asteroid :-)

I was privileged to see the Sundhnúkur eruption in #Iceland when also the #aurora appeared on the night of August 28th of this year. It was amazing! :-)

OK, let's start my first Bluesky post, of course with the beauty of the youngest volcano of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region, eastern-central Europe. Detailed eruption chronology shows long dormant periods... last eruption 30 ka. see: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...