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AIRLINES cancelled flights into Indonesia's capital yesterday after a volcano hundreds of miles to the west unleashed its most powerful eruption in a century, incinerating villagers as they fled a searing gas cloud.
Hence, the public is strictly prohibited to enter the 4-kilometer Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ). Likewise warned were people residing near the valleys and streams in close proximity to the volcano to be on extra alert against sediment-laden stream flows in the event of heavy rains.
After the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in spring 2010, Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano is showing signs of activity. Will more disruption of air travel follow?
Russia's Shiveluch volcano is erupting in Kamchatka, spewing ash to a height of 10 kilometres above sea level.
Think that's snow falling on that awesome double cab Toyota truck? Nope. It's actually ash from Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Russia's most active volcano. The 15,584 ft. tall volcano erupted last week, blanketing the town of Ust-Kamchatsk in ash.
Originally posted by hunterschild88
nice post!
I will admit i never really paid to much attention to volcano's in the past. i don't even know if Australia has an volcano's.. (i should find out)! But with all these volcano's erupting all within close proximity of each other... well it makes you think.
Some experts believe that a super volcano in the United States may soon erupt with such force as to lay waste much of North America. Moreover they believe that such an event may now be imminent and would constitute a major catastrophe whose effects would be felt around the world and push Mankind to the very brink of extinction.
"The geological record shows that new volcanoes in these areas have erupted perhaps every 2,000 years in the past 40,000 years — and given there has not been a major eruption there for the past 5,000 years, a significant eruption seems well overdue," he said.
University of Melbourne geologist Bernie Joyce said the threat of volcanic eruption in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland should be given more attention by emergency management authorities.
Originally posted by oozyism
Flight chaos as volcano death toll rises to 138
AIRLINES cancelled flights into Indonesia's capital yesterday after a volcano hundreds of miles to the west unleashed its most powerful eruption in a century, incinerating villagers as they fled a searing gas cloud.
Bulusan volcano emits steam, ash
Grimsvotn: Is Another Icelandic Volcano About to Erupt?
Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupts
Russia2 - This Is Not Snow
So what do you think?
Is it Volcano season?
OR
The voluminous Newer Volcanics province covers a broad 15,000 sq km area of SE Australia with nearly 400 small shield volcanoes and explosive vents of Tertiary-to-Holocene age. Volumetrically the vast proportion of volcanic products consist of flat-lying lava flows, although the most prominent features of the volcanic field are the numerous small scoria cones, tuff rings, and maars that rise above the lava plain. Several vents were active during the Holocene; another vent (Mount Tower) is now considered to be of late-Pleistocene age. Late-Pleistocene to Holocene eruptions are characterized by small volume and low explosivity, forming a series of scoria cones, maars, tuff rings, and major valley filling lava flows. The youngest dated eruptions took place at Mount Schank and Mount Gambier about 5000 years ago, when explosive activity formed several maars and associated lava flows.