Anak Krakatau Erupting - Typhoonfury Twitter Feed

Twitter Feed of a well traveled Volcano chaser that has been documenting Merapi eruption is reporting Anak Krakatau is also erupting.

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Interesting! I am watching the AP feed to see if this hits and provides more detail.

~Heff

Here you go a news article.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com...

Very disturbing that they are popping together.

Was wondering when this thread would appear...

I have a BAD feeling about all this.

edit to add:

More News

itn.co.uk...

Has Video!

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano in Sunda Strait, straddling East Java and Sumatra, has spewed ash and flaming rocks. Officials raised alert levels to 'high' on Friday as the volcano showed signs of increased activity, producing 117 small eruptions. Staff at the observation post in Pasauran, Banten Province are on a 24-hour watch. Residents in Pasauran have been told to stay at least two kilometres away from the volcano.

This isn`t sounding to good to me with these becoming active Volcanoes. Is it normal for them to be having two active like this at the same time? Like has this happened before where they had more then one active at a time?
Thanks for posting this event. And for all those keeping us up on this area there.

reply to post by Necrosis


Wow, and they are mentioning three more in Indonesia that are now threatening to blow.

Geez, the volcanos are active.

Surprising to see so many plates waiting to move.

The Earth's a moving get out of the way!!!

Global warming has kind of taken a sideline though.

Pred...

reply to post by Necrosis

What the hell are you talking about?

It this eruption factual, like right now or are you "speculating"! I'm not seeing any news anywhere.

Why don't you follow the links provided and see for yourself...

reply to post by Necrosis

And you don't even GET sarcasm! Wow Sherlock!

Why did you even post a " Volcanic eruption" thread anyway?

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www.tribunnews.com...

And here's the always interesting google chrome translation

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - The tourists who want to make a trip to see the beauty of Mount Anak Krakatau activity is recommended so as not to fall to the ground to close. The recommended safe distance is 2 kilometers from the volcano of Anak Krakatau. "Tourists are not banned, just as long as the waters are advised not to go down to the ground. A safe distance about 2 miles," said Officer Observation Post Mount Anak Krakatau, Anton when contacted by phone on Saturday (10/30/2010).

According to Anton conditions around the area of Anak Krakatau volcano is still considered safe. In fact, continued Anton himself, also allow the community who want to see wisps of smoke from the volcano activity of Anak Krakatau. "In fact, it took a good look at the picture of Anak Krakatau volcano smoke," he said.

As known earlier, the alert status given to the eight volcanoes in Indonesia. That is, the status of the eight mountain hazards are located on level two. Alert status of Mount Anak Krakatau has been embedded since October 31, 2009 and the last four days, the number of eruptions over 100 times.

Originally posted by Exv8densez
reply to post by Necrosis

 

And you don't even GET sarcasm! Wow Sherlock!

Why did you even post a " Volcanic eruption" thread anyway?

edit on 31-10-2010 by Exv8densez because: (no reason given)

He posted it to tell people that there was a volcanic eruption!

Why else do you think he posted it?

Thanks for the info OP!

Shall watch in anticipation...

This has been reported on ITN itn.co.uk...

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano in Sunda Strait, straddling East Java and Sumatra, has spewed ash and flaming rocks.

Officials raised alert levels to 'high' on Friday as the volcano showed signs of increased activity, producing 117 small eruptions.

Staff at the observation post in Pasauran, Banten Province are on a 24-hour watch. Residents in Pasauran have been told to stay at least two kilometres away from the volcano.

Anak Krakatau means 'Child of Krakatau', named so because it rose in the place of Krakatoa volcano after it blew itself apart in one of the most destructive eruptions in history in 1883. The area is a popular tourist site and many villagers farm on the slopes of nearby Ibu Krakatau (Mother of Krakatau) on the same island.

"Until now we are still on alert level but when we examined our equipment on October 27 and 28 we experienced tremors," said Anton Priambudi, a volcanologist observing Anak Krakatau.

Several volcanos in Indonesia increased their activities recently following Mount Merapi's eruption on Tuesday.

The eruptions came only a day after a tsunami struck the remote islands in western Indonesia.

heres the same story from last year:

dailymail

This isnt uncommon, Anak Krakatau goes off several times a year, just because some other minor volcanoes are going off at the same time doesnt mean the world is going to end!

Lengthy article about Anak Krakatau

On 23 Oct. 2007, grey eruption plumes were observed rising from a vent to the SW of the central crater of Anak Krakatau. These marked the onset of a new phase of activity which climaxed in mid-late November with powerful strombolian (and possibly vulcanian) eruptions being reported. Activity paused in early 2008, yet by April the eruption had resumed again.

So although it's rumbled around for a long time, apparantly it was just a few years ago that a significant change in it's behaviour began to occur..??

Yes, Krakatau has been erupting on and off for years. Its alert level has been raised because the average number of daily eruptions has increased. This has happened several times in the past.

I just wrote a longer, more detailed post about this on another "Krakatau" thread (with links to both a respected volcanologist's website and also the Smithsonian/USGS page for volcanic activity reports), so rather than do it all again I'll just link to it here. Anyone who wants to know the simple facts of the matter can check the details for themselves.

Best regards,

Mike

reply to post by JustMike


Yes, I read your post just now Mike. Very informative, thanks.
I was wondering if it is normal for volcanoes in the surrounding area to show signs of increased activity after one main one erputs ? Otherwise isn't it a little more than just coincidence that 8 (some articles say 10) have had their alert status raised a level simulataneously in the last couple of days ?

reply to post by cosmicpixie

Good question and actually a very hard one for anyone to answer definitively, because Indonesia is so volcanically active (with about half the world's active volcanoes) that it's difficult to assign basic cause-and-effect relationships there. I can say that it's normal for there to be several volcanoes active in that region at any one time, though.

It would probably not be unreasonable to assume that there are some kinds of knock-on effects there, just as there is a solid scientific basis to tie in major (tectonic) seismic activity with volcanic activity. Because there is an important subduction zone running all along the southern and western coastlines there, and because we are also pretty certain that at least some volcanic activity is "fed" by subducted sections of the earth's crust -- as is the case with the PNW region as well -- then it stands to reason that when there is a major quake on or near the subduction zone it could trigger or increase volcanic activity, even some distance away.

So, rather than the cause and effect relationships, the real problem lies in trying to figure out if there's any way to predict what might erupt next, or conversely, where the next major subduction might occur. It's such a complex problem that it's just as hard as attempting to work out the finer interrelationships in weather systems, where a small change in one place can cause significant changes elsewhere.

Maybe a couple of years back I said here on ATS that I see earthquakes and other seismic activity (and hence volcanoes) as being something like the weather. While scientists know that large seismic events can trigger quakes in other places (and perhaps volcanoes too), I suspect that smaller events could also have similar effects. It's like the "butterfly in Beijing" concept. Or, to put it another way, it's like the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. In this case, where regions of the crust are already under enormous stress, and where some volcanoes are perhaps ready to erupt violently due to the pressures built up within them, it makes sense to me that it wouldn't always need a major quake to set things off. Even a relatively minor one might be enough.

I feel that it's not always a question of how much energy is needed to cause a knock-on effect, but the precise way that the energy is applied. For example, if you sit on a balloon its skin might not fail, but if you touch it with a sharp needle then it lets go. The needle's point applies a very large amount of pressure (psi) but over a very small area, and this punctures the balloon and the pressure inside it does the rest.

With volcanoes, it's possible that a small amount of energy in just the "right" place could be the trigger to make it erupt, but a larger amount more generally distributed could do nothing much at all.

It's a complex problem and I could be entirely wrong anyway, but in terms of places like Krakatau and Merapi, we know there's a lot of energy there ready to come out. Perhaps we need to do more study of what smaller seismic events occurred around them in recent times to see if they were also part of the total equation.

I just have the feeling that by not giving much thought to the smaller events we might be missing something.

Sorry for the long reply. I've tried to keep on the subject of volcanic activity as best I can, so I hope the mods will allow this post to remain.

Mike

I come from a complete different direction. Since I have had experiences with other life forms one of the things I watch for from the things I have been shown or told is several volcanoes erupting at the same time. I was told it had to happen this way to lesson the blow for what would have been and what is coming our way.

Don't know if this is it, THE BEGINNING. This needs to be watched closely...also watch the skies the ships have a tendency to observe.

If this is the Beginning then we will begin to see more quakes & fissures open in areas that you would not expect such as what happened at Christchurch New Zealand.

It might be a slow process actually leading to 12.

Krakatau (Indonesian: Krakatau), often mispelled Krakatoa, is a volcanic island made of a'a lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island (also called Rakata), and the volcano as a whole. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately 40,000 people, although some estimates put the death toll much higher. The explosion is still considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history, with reports of it being heard nearly 3,000 miles from its point of origin. The shock wave from the explosion was recorded on barographs around the globe.

With a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 6, the eruption was equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT (840 PJ) — about 13,000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb (13 to 16 kt) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II and four times the yield of the Tsar Bomba (50 Mt), the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
The 1883 eruption ejected approximately 21 km3 (5.0 cu mi) of rock, ash, and pumice.

The cataclysmic explosion was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Western Australia, about 1,930 miles (3,110 km) away, and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, about 3,000 miles (5,000 km) away.

Near Krakatau, according to official records, 165 villages and towns were destroyed and 132 seriously damaged, at least 36,417 (official toll) people died, and many thousands were injured by the eruption, mostly from the tsunamis that followed the explosion. The eruption destroyed two-thirds of the island of Krakatoa.

Eruptions at the volcano since 1927 have built a new island in the same location, named Anak Krakatau (Indonesian: "Child of Krakatoa"). This island currently has a radius of roughly 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) and a high point around 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level, growing 5 metres (16 ft) each year.

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