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Volcano erupts in Vanuatu: Red Cross
Vila :: Vanuatu | 1 day ago
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Residents were loaded onto fishing boats and shipped to the far side of Gaua island after the volcano, which has been rumbling for the past two months, started erupting on Thursday. "They're evacuating people to the other side of the island. The volcano...
Tags: Red Cross, Vanuatu, Vila, Environment, Volcano, Disaster Accident, Gaua
Stromboli belches but no threat
Rome :: Italy | 2 days ago
Credibility The famed volcanic island of Stromboli belched out red-hot stones and a plume of black sand Tuesday but posed no immediate threat to its inhabitants, experts said. The blast from the eruption rippled through the villages of Stromboli and Ginostra, raising...
Tags: Stromboli, Italy, Rome, Stratovolcanoes, Plate tectonics, Types of volcanic eruptions, Volcano, Aeolian Islands, Igneous rocks, Volcanoes of Italy, Disaster Accident, Environment
Supervolcano eruption in Sumatra deforested India 73,000 years ago
Nuuk :: Greenland | 3 days ago
Credibility In a new study, scientists have come across what they call "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter. The...
Tags: Toba, Indian Ocean, carbonates isotope, Stanley Ambrose, central india, toba eruption, Greenland, Nuuk, Lake Toba, Supervolcanoes, Volcano, Types of volcanic eruptions, Toba catastrophe theory, Igneous rocks, Volcanology, Plate tectonics, Environment
Dogmas may blinker mainstream scientific thinking
Berlin :: Germany | 5 days ago
Credibility The competing claims of Growing Earth Theory and Plate Tectonics Theory as presented in the accompanying article may appear to be a recent rivalry, but they are in fact following in a long tradition. Soon after accurate maps of the world were first drawn...
Tags: Germany, Berlin, Samuel Warren Carey, Subduction, Seafloor spreading, Wadati-Benioff zone, Geology, Environment, Plate tectonics, Expanding Earth, Alfred Wegener, Crust, Continental crust, Earth, Lithosphere, Volcano, Structure of the Earth
1000 flee Columbian volcano eruption
Galeras :: Colombia | 5 days ago
Credibility Some 9000 people live in the vicinity of the volcano, which erupted at 8:37 pm Friday (12:37 am Sunday), will be forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in temporary accommodations if the alert is prolonged, the Colombia Institute of Geology and Mining...
Tags: Colombia, Galeras, Igneous rocks, Volcano, Andes, Nevado del Huila, Stratovolcanoes, Pasto, Disaster Accident, Environment
Drilling into volcano will not make it erupt, scientists say
Potsdam :: Germany | 6 days ago
Credibility Instinct would tell you to stay away, but an international team of scientists are doing exactly the opposite. They are preparing to drill a 4km hole into the heart of the volcano to investigate beneath the surface. Their aim is to pinpoint the source...
Tags: liquid magma, magma chamber, Germany, Potsdam, Magma, Caldera, Volcano, Campi Flegrei, Prediction of volcanic activity, Volcanology, Igneous rocks, Environment
DRC: Blue Helmets Help When Plane Overshoots
Goma :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | 7 days ago
Credibility The mission’s headquarters are near the airport, and it has been aiding a German-funded project to clear lava rock that reduced the length of the runway when the Mt. Nyiragongo volcano erupted in 2002, spewing lava over the a third of the tarmac and much...
Tags: Goma, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Mount Nyiragongo, United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lava, Volcano, Igneous rocks, Lake Kivu, Disaster Accident, War Conflict, Kivu, Goma International Airport, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122, Radio Okapi
IMAX's 'Volcanoes of the Deep Sea'
Madrid :: Spain | 8 days ago
Credibility But it's science fact, as well as a hypnotic visual foray into an unknown world...The large-format camera has a long history of going where few have gone before, but this is uncharted territory, for scientists and viewers. "Volcanos of the Deep Sea"...
Tags: deep sea, IMAX, Spain, Madrid, Volcano, Hydrothermal vent, Entertainment Culture, Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, films, Paleodictyon, Environment
Sand quarrying: Cheating under the guise of mitigation
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 11 days ago
Credibility The Jakarta Post' s correspondent Oyos Saroso H.N. looked into the illegal activity and Anak Krakatau's exoticism and mysticism as well as its significance for local communities. Sand quarrying on Mount Anak Krakatau might still be happening had a fisherman...
Tags: Mount Anak Krakatau, Indonesia, Jakarta, Sebesi, Danan, Sebuku, Lampung, Volcano, Sunda Strait, Krakatoa, Rakata, Environment, Disaster Accident, Krakatau, Anak
390 families in Albay evacuated due to Mayon 'threat'
Manila :: Philippines | 13 days ago
Credibility Radio dzRH reported that the 390 families, or 1,665 people, from two villages in Daraga town were brought to the Daraga Supermarket for temporary shelter. The report said the town's local officials will meet Friday with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology...
Tags: volcano, Mayon Volcano, Phivolcs, ash fall, Renato Solidum Jr., advised residents, Albay, Legazpi City-Daraga, health hazard, Philippines, Manila, Igneous rocks, Plate tectonics, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Legazpi City, Stratovolcanoes, Volcanology, Disaster Accident
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