Thanks fanfan.
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Posted on 11/23/2013 3:36:30 PM PST by Errant
Indeed! ;)
“A new island has appeared in the Pacific. A submarine eruption just off Nishino-Shima Island Japan has erupted for the first time in 40 years. The Japanese Navy noticed the explosions as boiling lava met sea water giving rise to plumes of steam and ash.”
China announces air defence zone over new island ;-{)
Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has erupted again, showering volcanic ash on towns dotting the mountain's slopes and nearby Taormina.
Etna erupts occasionally. Its last major eruption occurred in 1992.
Let’s be careful about speculating too much into this.
Everyone here rightfully claims that the global warming/climate change fanatics are trying to predict too much from limited data... We haven’t been monitoring temperatures so precisely as we’ve only just had quality instruments for about 100 years. Add to that that broadly speaking, tree rings and ice cores show that temperatures were actually warmer in the past during the early Holocene...
-How long have we been able to monitor the entire Earth on a minute/hour/daily basis for global volcanic activity?
—Given the short time we’ve been able to do so, how do we know if this is not a more common phenomenon?
-Volcanism in the past has been much more massive, and we have the geological evidence to confirm that, such as the Deccan and Siberian formations of thousands of square miles of lava flows.
-How do we quantify the amount of volcanism per time period— Hour? Day? Week? Month? Year?
OK. Now back to your regularly scheduled running around and screaming, “We’re all going to die!”
Well, the Sun’s magnetic poles do a swap every 11 years, and it’s been over 11 years with no ‘swap’. It seems that the South poles have disappeared and the North poles are stuck half way . I think it will work itself out (has for billions of years so far), but it may be that this anomaly has something to do with the currents of flux from the Sun and iron-laden magma in the Earth.
The current eruptive phase continues. Local newspapers reported explosions every 30-35 minutes, with plumes up to 2 km high. Lava flows (and incandescent avalanches) descend on the flanks of the volcano.
Yup!!
You done jogged the memory, I could remember for the life of me.
“Around 550 volcanoes have erupted at least once in historic times, and around 50 or 60 are active each year. On any given day, as many as 10 volcanoes may be spewing ash or lava somewhere on Earth.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/gallery_volcanoes/
It really depends on the size of the nuke, placement, displacement, etc. Seismic, lunar, and solar events are much more impactful than man-made.
Everything is relative. You should have been around a billion years ago. Man... volcanoes went off all the time.
“; )
P.S. There are thousands of active volcanoes under the ocean.
So much for “renewable” solar energy for a decade or so if there’s a big one. And we’re due for one.
I don’t think it is the Sun’s magnetic poles swapping, it’s low numbers of sunspots. Whatever affects the number of sunspots appears to cause increased seismic activity on earth, according to the data available.
Yep, But I've been predicting about 100 for this year though... ;)
7 times in one day? Earth on Viera!
Cool, thanks for the links!
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