Posted on 04/16/2016 7:48:13 AM PDT by JimSEA
An enigmatic and dangerous giant sleeps on the border between China and North Korea.
Its quiet now, but a millennium ago, the volcano called Mount Paektu exploded with a fury rivaling the largest eruptions in recorded human history, hurling crackling rocks and ash as far away as Japan
Despite that violent outburst, Mount Paektuor Changbai, as its called in Chineseremains fundamentally mysterious. Few outside the region are even aware it exists. And no one knows if, or when, the 9,000-foot-tall (2,740-meter-tall) peak might erupt again.
Now, armed with an array of seismometers and almost unprecedented access to North Korea, an international team of scientists is working to peer beneath Mount Paektu. Inscribed in those shifting layers of Earth are crucial clues about the possibility of future eruptions.
Is there magma down there? Is there melt that could potentially lead to an eruption? All the stuff thats driving volcanic eruptions lives in the subsurface, says Kayla Iacovino of the U.S. Geological Survey, coauthor of a study appearing today in Science Advances that describes Mount Paektus subsurface anatomy.
Restless Giant
Unlike most volcanoes on Earth, Mount Paektu isnt located where tectonic plates collide. Its parked in the middle of a plate, at least 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) away from the massive subduction zone that created the Japanese islands. Simply put, Mount Paektu shouldnt really be there.
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beautiful lake but that would just add to the disaster and destruction. This really, really isn't a good way to eliminate Kim Jong Un.
Why couldn’t Mecca have been built on top of a sacred volcano?
If it does, Kim-Jun-Whatever will have it executed.
Underground tests could wake the beast.
When the crater lake disappears, run.
Pikachu don't look so scary to me.
lol
Good!
I hope the "Sacred Volcano" causes much sacred death and destruction.
That’s “brow”
North Korea is beyond saving.
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