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Brian Cury, CEO and founder of EarthCam, Inc., launched EarthCam.com in 1996 to build a network of webcams offering views of destinations throughout the world. In 1999 it was claimed 20 people per day were adding their webcams to the website. [3] By 2006 the website was a Webby Award Winner in the Tourism category. [4]
Lacking a central volcanic cone, the Svartsengi volcanic system consists of a set of fissures, cones and volcanic craters aligned over 30 km (19 mi) in length and 7 km (4.3 mi) in width, oriented north-east to south-west and surrounded by fields of lava: [3] Þorbjörn (243 m (797 ft)), Hagafell (158 m (518 ft)), Sundhnúkur 134 m (440 ft) (Sundhnúksgígar means the associated crater row ...
It is a webcam located on Kala Patthar, a mountain in Nepal located in front of Everest, in the Himalayas Himalaya, at an elevation of 5,675 metres (18,619 ft). The webcam capture video footage of the summit of Mount Everest and is the highest webcam in the world. [ 1 ]
When the volcano erupted in 2003, a 15 m-high (49 ft) island formed above the surface, but it disappeared soon after. Additional eruptive activity was observed and reported in March 2004 and April 2007. [5] [6] More recent volcanic activity can be inferred from observations of discolored water around the volcano, in 2020 and January 2021. [1]
Bárðarbunga (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈpaurðarˌpuŋka] ⓘ, alternative name Veiðivötn), [4] [1] is an active and productive stratovolcano located under Vatnajökull in Vatnajökull National Park which is Iceland's most extensive glacier.
The island is 21 km 2 (8 sq mi) in area and rises to 501 m (1,644 ft) above sea level. The island is separated by a 750 m (2,461 ft)-wide strait from Lipari to the north and is administratively part of the Commune of Lipari. As of 2019, Vulcano had a population of 450 residents, a decrease from a population of 953 in 2011.
Livestreams showed errant beachgoers, bicyclists and even kitesurfers off the coast of Hilton Head Island as the Category 2 hurricane ushered in choppy waters and high winds across the Lowcountry.
Big Ben is the large massif to the bottom right (southeast) of this image of Heard Island, from NASA WorldWind. Big Ben formed about one million years ago. [5] Volcanic activity at the cone has been known since 1881. An eruption occurred in 1993. [6] Satellite images detected eruptions during 2000.