Rumbleometer Virtual Site

Rumbleometer Virtual Site

The Rumble site is located within the central collapsed area of the 1998 lava flow. The Rumbleometer (or VSM) is a NOAA seafloor instrument used to monitor volcanic activity. During the 1998 eruption, the instrument was caught in the new lava flow! Initially, it was a mystery how the instrument did not get buried by the new lava, because it was located in the bottom of a collapse area 3 meters deep! Clearly the lava had been more than 3 meters higher here before the flow drained-out and collapsed. Why wasn’t the instrument completely buried? How had it survived the eruption? We did not know for sure until the Rumbleometer was rescued and pulled out of the lava in 1999 and the data it recorded was examined. More ...

	Fly-through movie The Quicktime movie below allows you to get a virtual tour of the site by moving through it. Click the button at the lower left to play the movie. Both the fly-through movie and the panorama may take some time to load, so please be patient.		Panorama The Quicktime VR panorama below gives you a 360° view of the site. Click and drag your mouse inside the panorama window to look in different directions. The buttons in the bottom left zoom in or out and show hotlinks to video clips.

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