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Krakatau Erupting! Tens of thousands evacuate
Volcano News ^ | Tuesday January 11, 2011 | John Seach

Posted on 01/11/2011 8:03:43 AM PST by NorwegianViking

Krakatau Volcano, Indonesia Eruptions from Krakatau volcano, Indonesia have forced the evacuation of tens of thousands residents. Seven districts affected are Kalianda, Rajabasa, Katibung, Sidomulyo, Ketapang, Sragi and Palas. On Monday ash from Anak Krakatau continued to cover residential areas in parts of Banten province and South Lampung. Visual observations showed ash emissions reaching a height of 600 m and drifting east. Ashfall has affected the operation of seismometers on the volcano. Fisherman and tourists are advised to stay at least 2 km from the volcano.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; krakatau; nuclearwinter; teotwawki; volcaniceruption; volcano; volcanoe
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To: Godzilla; SunkenCiv; muawiyah; bgill

Just how bad is this eruption???


21 posted on 01/11/2011 8:27:12 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: ClearCase_guy
It’s the End Times.

And I Feel Fine...

22 posted on 01/11/2011 8:28:57 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Fred Hayek
Global Warming! Bush’s Fault!

Not any more.

Global Warming!

Palin's Fault!

23 posted on 01/11/2011 8:30:43 AM PST by ProudFossil
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

>> “Oh yeah, and a lot of people dieing.” <<

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But the left won’t be too concerned about that, what with all the “overpopulation” and such...
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24 posted on 01/11/2011 8:31:20 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: NorwegianViking

Just looked at how this is breaking in the American MSM. Wow! This is sure to bust open the headlines!

Oops, wait a minute, the headlines went back to “spotting hate speech”.


25 posted on 01/11/2011 8:32:39 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: ghost of nixon
Yep, nice catch!


26 posted on 01/11/2011 8:33:05 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites" - Charles Krauthammer)
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To: ClearCase_guy

>> “It’s the End Times.” <<

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Has been for 2000 years or so...


27 posted on 01/11/2011 8:33:18 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: hennie pennie

The earlier explosion of Krakatau, literally blew the island apart, leaving a few of the now smaller surrounding bits of land as remnants. The lareg body of water is the sunken caldera of the volcano, as it collapsed into the ocean. As the site is a geological “hot spot” the earth’s mantle started to rebuild..the new island..Anak Krakatau, is the new volcano rising from the ocean floor. If it erupts with the same intensity as the earlir one..well..no one really knows....there was global winter in Europe..and the ash cloud circled the globe. Immediately, you could see a near total shut-down of trans-Pacific aviation...


28 posted on 01/11/2011 8:33:20 AM PST by ken5050 (I don't need sex.....the government screws me every day..)
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To: Logic n' Reason

You must double as the Sheriff of Pima County.


29 posted on 01/11/2011 8:34:38 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, than Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: ken5050
VERY interesting. Thanks much!

I've been planning for years now, to read that bestseller about this volcano, but simply never got around to it. It's a SUPER volcano, right?

30 posted on 01/11/2011 8:37:04 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: ClearCase_guy

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!


31 posted on 01/11/2011 8:40:33 AM PST by aces
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To: hennie pennie

OH NO, not the sumatran coffee..


32 posted on 01/11/2011 8:42:52 AM PST by aces
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To: NorwegianViking

Krakatoa katie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDCPCf03ulY


33 posted on 01/11/2011 8:46:04 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: NorwegianViking

34 posted on 01/11/2011 8:46:04 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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To: hennie pennie

This isn’t a big eruption. 1800 foot high ash cloud isn’t very big. Probably more precautionary than anything else, it has been leading up to a larger eruption for the past several months now. Not much else available to me at the moment. BTW, they are worried about the coffee crop.


35 posted on 01/11/2011 8:46:22 AM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: La Lydia

I’m a bit numb to spree killers too. I’m sorry for the congresswoman and the judge, the little girl breaks my HEART. But, if a politician gets killed, it’s a little like when a journalist gets killed in a war zone. I’m not going to give them some sort of grand memorial when hundreds of others die unreported. They are not royalty.


36 posted on 01/11/2011 8:48:05 AM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: hennie pennie

It may be...I’m not sure what the criteria is that defines a “super volcano”...super volcanoes, like the one under Yellowstone, tend to go off tens of thousands, hundreds if thousands, or years apart..Krakatoa’s been blowing its brains out every few hundred years...I think it’s so violent because it’s a part of the whole Pacific rim “Ring of Fire”

There are some remarkable scientific studies of the global effects of the last time Krakatoa erupted...to try and imagine what one of a similar intensity today would do is well..almost apocalyptic..


37 posted on 01/11/2011 8:48:19 AM PST by ken5050 (I don't need sex.....the government screws me every day..)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

THE OCEANS CAN’T *absorb* ANY MORE CO2~!!! AAAAAAARRRGHHH!

Women and minorities hurt worst.


38 posted on 01/11/2011 8:51:29 AM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Alex Murphy

funny thing about this movie = krakatoa is actually to the WEST of java.


39 posted on 01/11/2011 8:53:33 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: ken5050

i seem to recall reading something about a five foot tall tsunami hitting ENGLAND after the original eruption.


40 posted on 01/11/2011 8:56:03 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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