It sits on top of one of the most geologically active regions in the Ring of Fire.
Posted on 04/17/2024 8:25:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A volcano erupted several times in Indonesia's outermost region Wednesday, with authorities raising the alert level to its highest point after the dome spewed a column of smoke more than a mile into the sky and forced hundreds to evacuate.
Mount Ruang, a stratovolcano in North Sulawesi Province, first erupted at 9:45 pm on Tuesday (1345 GMT) and four times throughout Wednesday, the country's volcanology agency said.
The alert level for the volcano, which has a peak of 725 meters above sea level, was then raised on Wednesday evening from three to four, the highest possible level in the four-tiered system.
"Based on the result of visual and instrumental observation that showed an increase in volcanic activity, Mount Ruang's level was raised from Level 3 to Level 4," Hendra Gunawan, head of Indonesia's volcanology agency said in a statement late Wednesday.
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The YouTube channel Geologyhub has a good report on this. It looks like it may want to go Krakatoa, not good.
It has subsided. No biggie.
I wonder if YouTuber Dutchsinse has anything on this.
Fortunately climate change is all caused by man so this will have no effect whatsoever
Some subside and then erupt bigger than ever.
Ring Of Fire is certainly busy.
It sits on top of one of the most geologically active regions in the Ring of Fire.
Boy Indonesia certainly has been going through hell lately!!
It’s near the northern tip of Sulawesi (also known as Celebes); the large 1815 eruption of Tamboro was on an island located south of Sulawesi (or about 300 miles south of the current event).
First indications are this could be a lower end “moderate” dust veil event on a scale similar to Pinatubo in 1991-92, not a “major” like Tamboro was. Krakatoa was between moderate and major (in climate terms, about two-thirds the impact of Tamboro).
If this eruption will have any significant effect on global temperature remains to be worked out. It could, but further measurements will be needed if more eruptions take place.
Hmm may need to keep using the heated gloves a bit longer while riding in to work in the morning..
Not sure what that means. Is it walking over?
I believe Tambora in 1815 was a VEI 7 and I’ve read that it was the largest eruption in the past two millennium.
There was also the year without summer in 1816 after the eruption. I lived in Southern California in 1992 and the rains that year were the heaviest I’ve ever experienced. We had what they called the Miracle March after one of the usual droughts. The Sepulveda Basin in Los Angeles received 9 inches of rain in an afternoon. The aerosols have a huge effect.
It means they fear a big explosion and the entire island collapsing into the sea. That would cause Huge Tsunamis, pyroclastic flows, and 1000’s dead. Krakatoa was the largest volcanic eruption in the last several hundred years.
One of the seldom mentioned reason global Warming is wrong is they don’t figure the planet-wide cooling that eruption caused in the computer models
It’s just taking a breath.
IIRC, they thought the same thing about Krakatoa.
Sulawesi is a pretty big island. I don’t think there is much alarm about it collapsing into the sea, but if it did, thousands of deaths would be a miracle since there are ~22 million souls living there.
The entire island would not collapse into the sea. But a piece of it could.
Tambora exceeded Krakatoa overall (VEI), but during the biggest explosions Krakatoa exceeded Tambora even at Tambora’s peak. Krakatoa blasted ash and gases 80 km high (~50 miles), Tambora “only” had a column 45 km high. Tambora wins the “effect on climate” award though, because over the course of the eruption it threw more goodies into the stratosphere.
God (in the "Don't make me stop this car!" voice)
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