Raw Video: Locals Flea From Volcanic Ash
CO2 going into the atmosphere....
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WOW!!! Thanks for the great pics!!
Cool pic!
That’s a Zot!
What, no mention of Godzilla yet on this thread, cool pics by the way, it’s a small island, I’d be a bit worried if I were there.
Raw Video: Locals Flea From Volcanic Ash
I read somewhere that the caldera under Yellowstone is bulging more and more each year. I think caldera is the term I’m looking for.
Related:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,740641,00.html
Violent Tectonic Activity Tearing Africa in Two
Geologic transformation has “accelerated dramatically”
“In the last five years, the geologic transformation of northeastern Africa has “accelerated dramatically,” says Tim Wright, a fellow at the University of Leeds’ School of Earth and Environment. Indeed, the process is going much faster than many had anticipated. In recent years, geologists had measured just a few millimeters of movement each year. “But now the earth is opening up by the meter,” says Loraine Field, a scholar at the University of Bristol.
“In recent months, researchers have also recorded an up-tick in volcanic activity. Indeed, geologists have discovered volcanic eruptions near the earth’s surface at 22 places in the Afar Triangle in northeastern Africa. Magma has caused fissures up to eight meters (26 feet) wide to open up in the ground, reports Derek Keir from the University of Leeds.”
Interestingly, the kind of magma bubbling up in the region is the type otherwise only seen spewing forth from mid-ocean ridges, containing “the same chemical composition as the kind that emerges from deep-sea volcanoes.”
“The entire region increasingly resembles an ocean floor — one without water.”
“The new burst in activity began in 2005, when a 60-kilometer-long fissure suddenly formed in the Afar Depression. Since then, roughly 3.5 cubic kilometers (about 8/10 cubic miles) of magma have gushed forth, according to Tim Wright — enough to cover the entire area of London to an average person’s height.”
“From a geological perspective, the speed with which the magma is pushing forth is astonishing. It has been channeling its way through the rock below the earth’s surface at speeds of up to 30 meters per minute, reports Eric Jacques from the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris.
“Oxford University’s David Ferguson predicts a considerable increase in volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in the region over the next decade. They will, he says, “become of increasingly large magnitude.”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-01/27/c_13710036.htm
Indonesia’s Mount Bromo Splashes Lava Of 200 Meters
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/27-january-2011-columbia
Columbia: Galeras Volcano eruption expected
Interesting. If you told a Kyushu volcano was erupting my first guess would have been Sakurajima or Aso. We stayed at an onsen in the Kirishima area in the late ‘90s. Beautiful scenery.