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All five states -- Tamaulipas on the U.S. border and Sinaloa, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero on the Pacific coast -- are hotspots of drug cartel activity, either hosting trafficking routes or extensive drug-crop cultivation. The new warning system designates the states as a "level 4" risk, the highest level of potential danger. Mexico as a whole has a level 2 rating, meaning Americans should "exercise increased caution" because of concerns about crime. But an additional 11 Mexican states got a level 3 warning Wednesday, which urges people to "reconsider travel" there. Mexico has 31 states in all. Those states where...

Travel Advisory January 10, 2018 Mexico – Level 2: Exercise increased caution C Exercise increased caution in Mexico due to crime. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. Violent crime, such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery, is widespread. The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in many areas of Mexico as U.S. government employees are prohibited from travel to these areas. U.S. government employees are prohibited from intercity travel after dark in many areas of Mexico. U.S. government employees are also not permitted to drive from the U.S.-Mexico border to...

Do three dog effigy pots excavated in Georgia in the 1930s at the Bull Creek Site and one from the Neisler Mound site represent the Chihuahua breed, a native dog of Mexico? Is the tribe most likely associated with these pots the Kasihta/Cussetta Creek Indians whose migration legends strongly suggest an origin in west Mexico, likely the state of Colima which is also known for similar dog effigy pots? Did the Kasihta raise Chihuahuas for food which they fattened up for this purpose as depicted by the pots and as recorded by early Spanish eye-witness accounts? Finally, does this evidence...

SAN MARCOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's "Fire Volcano" spewed a column of rock, ash and lava almost three miles into the sky on Monday in its largest eruption for at least 15 years, civil protection officials said. The government was considering evacuating tiny communities around the 12,540-foot (3,860 meter) Colima volcano in the western state of the same name after the predawn eruption. "It's the largest explosion in the past 15 years and we are monitoring it because the activity is increasing, though gradually," said federal civil protection coordinator Carmen Segura. "If necessary we will carry out evacuations." A...

Link post, provided to allow interested FReepers access to the thread in the Chat section, where commentary should be posted: Geology Picture of the Week, October 10-14, 2004: Etna's slippery Slope (links to other eruptions)

Can't resist another Etna picture for this week: which is taken from the page below, which also has some new large-format QT movies: Skylights and lava falls in Valle del Bove Colima in Mexico got hot yesterday: the link below has some low-resolution Webcam animations: Observatorio Vulcanológico de la Universidad de Colima and finally, in an ancient volcano mode, this Earth Observatory image was an Ikonos view of Hanauma Bay on Oahu: Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii

Link post, to alert interested readers to this posting in the FR "chat" section. Any discussion should take place in the linked thread: Geology Pictures of the Week, March 14-20, 2004: Volcanoes from Space Trifecta

Catching up for my absence, the "Earth Observatory" had these three views of volcanoes taken from space. Click on each to go to the accompanying article page, which has high-resolution version links. Mt. Etna Mt. Fuji Colima (Mexico) And here's a no-image link to an article and image about a big Sahara sandstorm going out to sea: Sahara Dust Sweeps Past Canary Islands