Are climate change and tectonics linked? We must consider volcanic eruptions and earthquakes changing the climate, as well as climate change affecting earthquakes and eruptions.

Climate change affecting earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? Within human lifetimes today, we are causing a rapid and substantive shift in the climate.

Climate change – and specifically rising rainfall rates and glacial melting – could also exacerbate dangers beneath the Earth’s surface, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Why have the earthquakes sparked fears of volcanic eruptions? Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

The study of volcanic eruptions and their atmospheric effects offers critical insights into both natural hazard assessment and atmospheric dynamics.

“Earthquakes and eruptions are the heartbeat of the planet,” she says. The emissions from these events, which have influenced global climate, are the planet’s respiration.

Two homes on the Big Island of Hawaii have been destroyed by lava from a volcano eruption that started Thursday, while the island was shook by a 6.9-magnitude earthquake Friday just after noon.