Volcano Alert: Indonesia's Most Dangerous Volcano Ready to Erupt , Say Local Authorities

Here's the promised 700 frame timelaps from nov 1st. It's footage taken from the webcam prior the outburst it had as recorded by berkeleygal. It's clear, even in this footage, that the volcano is heading towards a period of more activity. Unfortunately I had to stop recording when I did. (11-01-10 / -5:56 - 8:49)

The webcam was completely stable, resulting in a rather smooth flow.

Better late than never.


Cheers

Sweet Jesus! I turned my speakers up to enjoy the jungle sounds and then WHAM! scared the crap outta the cats and me. LOL!

Excellent video D Wolf!

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I am lowlife scum.

Originally posted by minkey53
Email me when something big is going to happen like Mt St Helens...!!

Are you kidding me?

Krakatau when it exploded caused huge Tsunami's and a blast that echo'ed around the world 3 times.... That's one heck of a boom. Sorta like that 100/50 megaton nuke that echoed around the world about the same... You know.... the nuke that caused a crater 12 km wide...???

Wow, here is some new incredible footage of Merapi erupting:



Just arrived Nov 1 it appears. Very few views.

With pyroclastic flows like THAT, it is a little easier to see how serious it really is.

Thanks for that TA.

Wow, and did you see what that seismograph was doing?

Very interesting time we are living in now. No wonder I have trouble sleeping haha

Originally posted by berkeleygal
Wow, and did you see what that seismograph was doing?

Yes, If I had to guess, that was probably a harmonic tremor- a strong one.

And that was also the old school type seismo. Heh, no wonder we can't get much in GEE. The digital reality has not fully propagated yet. It does cost money. And for a place like that just trying to regroup after the apocalyptic destruction in 2004, I can't say nuttin.

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whoa!

Looks like a surreal oil painting.

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How DO you insert the pictures? I can't get it to work. I just had a look at the cam as the news just said a third eruption had happened...stronger than the previous two. It may be the smoke or cloud which obscures it but it looks like the top is flatter.

bump

still happening folks

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Do you mean how do I insert into the post? I upload to my ATS picture album then copy and paste the url.

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Berkeleygal - that's one heck of a screen shot The poor people and animals of Indonesia - Thinking it high time they relocate as the whole of the area is unstable!

With the recent eruptions going on at Merapi and Krakatau, it's apparent that level 2 alerts have now increased in the region to include 21 Indonesian volcanoes!!

Indonesia volcano shoots new blast; 21 more rumble

Indonesia has several volcanos smoldering at any given time, but another government volcanologist, Gede Swantika, said that normally only five to 10 would be at the third-highest alert level — which indicates an increase in seismic activity and visible changes in the crater. It is rare for any to be at second-highest — which signifies an eruption is possible within two weeks.

WOW!!! Did you all catch that? A Level 2 Alert is described as representing a Volcanic Eruption is possible - within two weeks!

Geophysicist Pall Einarsson of the University of Iceland said that such an increase could be an indication that some of the volcanos — if any are very close — could be affecting one another. He said this idea is a new one for volcanologists, but they are increasingly seeing evidence of interplay between neighboring mountains.

Now it appears that Geologists are starting to accept the hypothesis that erupting volcanoes can affect other nearby volcanoes!

Geologist Brent McInnes said as he hadn't seen the raw data but would find such a rash of volcanic activity significant.

"If it's true that there are over 20 volcanos demonstrating increased levels of seismic activity, then that is something we should pay attention to," said McInnes, a professor at Australia's Curtin University who has done extensive volcanic research in Indonesia.

He said such an increase could indicate "a major plate restructuring" — a major shift in the plates' position, rather than simply the usual jostling. "That would be significant."

And now Geologists in the region are now speculating the possibility of a Tectonic Adjustment...

If that happens, You can be rest assured it will adversly afect the Western Coasts of the Americas.
Given that a recent thread was created discussing the tectonic events occuring around the Nazca Plate, off the coasts of Peru, Ecquador, and Chile, I'd speculate that their events are directly correlated to the events in Indonesia.

Perhaps the 5.5 eqrthquake that registered across the entire North American Continent recently that was centered around the Kamchatka Peninsula, which registered at a depth of 350 km, is part of this process as well.

Interesting things taking place in the Ring of Fire !!! Brace for impact people - or perhaps it's time to board the subs....

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Yup - and remember folks - this is breaking news for today and yesterday in the main stream media - but it was reported here first on ATS - we rock, we roll, we rock, we roll. - Did you want me to post the links to the threads that some of us watchers posted within the past week?

www.foxnews.com... donesian-volcano-spurs-evacuations-refugees/?test=latestnews

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OH, thank you. I'm still getting used to navigating this new look ATS. I don't usually go into all those links. I will try it next time.

Does any one know if there is an official Indonesian volcano research centre which will give us the names of the 21 volcanoes?

I don't like the wording of Pall Einarsson at all. May be he simplified it a bit to much or the journalist did a bad job there. A scientist saying openly that an eruption at a volcano could trigger other surrounding volcanos to go off without explaining why is bad as it could create some kind of fear if a volcano erupts. Imagine what is going to happen if one of the volcanos beneath Vatnajokull in Iceland blows. Everyone is going to think that the other 3 or 4 there are going to blow too. Very bad situation.

My thoughts about this subject and certainly open for discussion.
We have three layers of magma. (just to keep it simple as it is of course more complex)
The mantel stuff.
The magma/lava flows above the mantel and inside the crust.
Volcanos above those flows.

The volcanos are "the top of the iceberg" and are isolated from each other. The link between them are the magma flows beneath those volcanos. The only reason I see to have multiple volcanos going off in the same region can only be caused by the magma flows below. If for one reason or another the flow start nurishing a bit to much all its volcanos above it, we could have multiple eruptions.

Not sure anyone is going to understand my thoughts lol. Sorry if this sounds Chineese to you and sorry for my poor English. English only my third language.

What we are seeing now in Indonesia could be sign that magma flows are pushing new magma into the above volcanos.
What I am asking myself as questions here.

1. Shifting or "sinking" of plates or part of the plates are causing new magma from the mantel to rise into magma flows. These flows are pushing a big amount of magma into the volcanos filling them up and making them ready to erupt.

Or

2. These magma flows are receiving a big amount of new magma from the mantel, making the plates to move and in some way erode. This makes it possible for magma to make its way up, filling the volcanos and making them ready to erupt.

As I said previsouly these are my thoughts about the subject and I am probably completely wrong. But I prefer my version to Pall Einarsson words, especially in the actual context.

Nidwin

I found the following information and thought it relevant:

There is considerable evidence for continuing, late-stage interaction between the magmatic system at Merapi volcano, Indonesia, and local crustal carbonate (limestone). Calc-silicate xenoliths within Merapi basaltic-andesite eruptive rocks display textures indicative of intense interaction between magma and crustal carbonate, and Merapi feldspar phenocrysts frequently contain crustally contaminated cores and zones.

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The major processes of magma–carbonate interaction identified are: (1) rapid decomposition and degassing of carbonate; (2) generation of a Ca-enriched, highly radiogenic strontium contaminant melt, distinct from the starting material composition; (3) intense CO2 vesiculation, particularly within the contaminated zones; (4) physical mingling between the contaminated and unaffected melt domains; (5) chemical mixing between melts.

petrology.oxfordjournals.org...

Does this mean that all the volcanoes along this fault would perhaps have this magma-carbonate interaction? Could any of the processes mentioned increase the potential interplay between volcanoes? No. 3 particularly as well as no. 5 give me the impression that maybe an increase of pressure within could be a result thus affecting the deeper magma chambers beneath the volcanoes. Any thoughts?