Mike Cassidy
@MikeVolc
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Volcanologist & Petrologist, Associate Professor at @geology_bham, research affiliate @OxUniEarthSci & @CSERcambridge, co-founder @GloVolcRisk
Oxford, England
Joined January 2014
@laramani14 & I have comment article in @Nature (, highlighting the risk from large eruptions & what we could do about them. I was a bit worried that some info might get misconstrued, so wanted to provide a bit of context🧵@new_ub @CSER @OxUniEarthSci 1/n
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RT @alaska_avo: #Spurr volcano Information Statement Feb 6, 2025, 4:55 pm AKST YELLOW/ADVISORY link to full statement:
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RT @IGeociencias: Se acaba de producir un #terremoto de M5.0 en la proximidad de la isla de Santorini (Grecia), en las últimas horas se han…
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Great explainer (from a few years back) from Sam on the Kolumbo volcano, which close to the site of recent earthquake swarms. #santorini
Day 23 of #ScienceAdventCalendar (Just one more to go now!) 😴 Meet Kolumbo, the submarine volcano just a few miles off the coast of Santorini in Greece!
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RT @volcanodiscover: #Santorini #volcano (Greece): earthquake swarm, possibly related to #volcanic activity - An new earthquake swarm is oc…
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RT @NatureGeosci: Article: Escalation of unrest at Campi Flegrei (Italy) – and possibly calderas more generally – indicated by increasing e…
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RT @GloVolcRisk: Today marks 3 years since this powerful eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano. The eruption was a key motivator for the form…
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@LeonSimons8 @THERA_4ever @NatRevEarthEnv Hi Leon, it's not known specifically about super-eruptions, but ice melt does seem to increase volcano eruption frequency, one recent report:
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RT @THERA_4ever: @NatRevEarthEnv With four supereruptions occurring just in the past 90,000 years the true frequency is rather close to 20,…
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RT @HTuffen: Congrats to @LancsUniLEC PhD student @tivonnehowe for publishing her first paper, on magmatic CO2 and storage depths at her vo…
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RT @GloVolcRisk: We're excited to start the New Year by welcoming a new member to our Governing Board! Daniel Reyland (@CBRNeDan) is an exp…
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@HaydnBelfield @laramani14 Tricky too, as volcanic events through history have strongly contributed to the other risks on here, like pandemics, wars and financial collapse, it's messy when trying to put separate numbers on the risks in this way...
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RT @unibirmingham: The teams uncovered multiple enormous trackways, dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago…
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RT @peterfrankopan: In other news (and barely reported anywhere in the UK, Europe, US etc), Indonesia joined the BRICS group @BRICSinfo on…
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RT @huetor_vega: So pleased to see our paper out #OpenAccess in @WeAreVolcanica: Researchers from @involcan and @N…
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RT @THERA_4ever: New #VIKINGS Paper: Revisiting the 10th-Century Eldgjá Eruption from Iceland. (@UniOslo @unibern @ERC_Research) 🌋🇮🇸 Mod…
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RT @THERA_4ever: Mysterious volcanic eruption of 1831 finally identified as the Zavaritskii caldera on Simushir Island (Kurils) using ice c…
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