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| Quoting Indy - posted on 5/4/2008 at 18:58 |
This eruption will be bad if it only reaches the level of Pinatubo.
Perhaps the only saving grace could be that this mountain is located in the southern hemisphere.
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True and true again. |
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DanG has attached this image:
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Dan, that picture ROCKS
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Yeah there are some wicked ass pics on this page. 1-14 are incredible.
megagalerias.terra.cl
and this one...
megagalerias.terra.cl
Start with number 31 and go up. There are some way too cool pics in there. It really is quite beautiful.
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just curious...but how much CO2 does a volcano such as this release???
& the pics are awesome |
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It blew up AGAIN today!!! |
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More on today's blast.
Satellite pic: rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov |
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the scary thing is that this happened without any sort of warning. |
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I love this pic of the ash plume ... it's over 400 miles long!
Original Image: rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov
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this is great, the ash should be arriving over us just in time for next winter, lol.
all joking aside, the is a good write up on www.icecap.us on the volcano and its possible effects. |
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I wonder how many cubic km of ash and stuff this volcano will put out?
Where on the VEI scale will it fall? I'm thinking a 5 or even a 6 if it decides to come unassed and blow its self up.
volcano.und.edu
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Unassed? Is that even a word? lol. It is already a big eruption I think with it lasting 5 days. After being dormant for 9,000 years who knows how much stuff this thing could have built up.
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| Quoting Indy - posted on 5/6/2008 at 18:26 |
Unassed? Is that even a word? lol. It is already a big eruption I think with it lasting 5 days. After being dormant for 9,000 years who knows how much stuff this thing could have built up.
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That's funny.. I read on one of these links it erupted 450 years ago..now I'll spend the rest of my evening looking for it.
Ah here it is....
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The volcano, 800 miles south of the capital Santiago, had not erupted for more than 450 years and was considered dormant.
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www.telegraph.co.uk's-Chaiten-volcano-forces-total-evacuation-of-towns.html
| Quote From Source: | More than 4,000 people had fled the first eruptions late last week, which were the volcano's first in 450 years.
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Source URL:
www.telegraph.co.uk's-Chaiten-volcano-forces-total-evacuation-of-towns.html
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yeah, well its listed as 450, 2000, 9000 ... seems nobody agrees on that.
but damn, if it goes nuke it'll put a buttload of ash in the air.
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ok, so i think what happened was that the actual volcano hasnt gone since 9000. the problem was that when it first was reported, they reported it as another volcano in the area. that volcano last erupted 450 years ago. i believe the media didnt fact check, big surprise, and just combined all of those dates because they heard them tossed around at one point. |
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| Quote From Source: | The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky on Tuesday, forcing thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.
The thick column of ash climbed into the stratosphere and blew eastward for hundreds of miles (kilometers) over Patagonia to the Atlantic Ocean, forcing schools and a regional airport to close. Citizens of both countries were advised to wear masks to avoid breathing the dangerous fallout.
The five-day-old eruption is the first in at least 9,000 years for the volcano in southern Chile, according to volcanologists at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
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| Quote From Source: | A Chilean government vulcanologist warned that the eruption was only at the beginning stage and that an explosive eruption was possible.
"There could be a major explosion that could collapse the volcano's cone," said Luis Lara of the National Geologic and Mining Service.
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Here is some raw video footage of todays cloud
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so heres the deal...when pinatubo went, there was a tropical system slamming into the island. so the question is, do weather systems help keep the ash up in the air and scatter it more widely or does the precip from this systems help keep the ash and gases lower to the ground and from spreading over larger areas? |
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BTW since we can't seem to get a clear answer on any historic volcanic eruptions I added 5000 points to Mikes account for having a realistic answer with Montserrat.
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so the ash column is now being reported to over 100,000 ft...a little be higher than the 60,000 ft they were reporting.
im thinking vei 5... |
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If it made it to 100,000 feet then that is Pinatubo level... vei 6. Lets see what the rest of the week does.
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thanks Indy |
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is it me or has the US new media paid no attention to this eruption? is it cuz there is relatively low population surrounding it? i guess they dont realize the implications it could have worldwide...or it goes against the global warming scare so its not newsworthy. |
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No one died. Or at least not as many as in Myanmar.
I haven't heard anything about except from here. |
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| Quoting MountainManMike - posted on 5/6/2008 at 23:34 |
is it me or has the US new media paid no attention to this eruption? is it cuz there is relatively low population surrounding it? i guess they dont realize the implications it could have worldwide...or it goes against the global warming scare so its not newsworthy.
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Seem to be more worried about that Cyclone and 50,000 dead. This could kill more but until it does...it is not going to be front page news. It is just interesting.
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its all about the body count. one of the reasons I hate MSM.
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