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Volcano erupts in Japan; injuries reported
AP via Fort Wayne News Sentinel ^
| September 27, 2014
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Posted on 09/27/2014 1:23:16 AM PDT by John W
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To: John W
Japan, where a camera is more important that getting the Hell out of there.
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09/27/2014 4:05:31 PM PDT
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CodeToad
(Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
To: Yosemitest
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09/27/2014 4:07:07 PM PDT
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trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: John W
"The islands of Japan are located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. They are primarily the result of large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north. Japan was originally attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates pulled Japan eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago.[77]
Japan has 108 active volcanoes. Destructive earthquakes, often resulting in tsunami, occur several times each century.[78] The 1923 Tokyo earthquake killed over 140,000 people.[79] More recent major quakes are the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, a 9.0-magnitude[80] quake which hit Japan on March 11, 2011, and triggered a large tsunami.[52] Due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is substantially prone to earthquakes and tsunami, having the highest natural disaster risk in the developed world.[81]"
Source: Wikipedia
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09/27/2014 4:09:44 PM PDT
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trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
Those folks cant catch a break!The island nation of Japan exists BECAUSE of geological instability.
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09/27/2014 4:10:33 PM PDT
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Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: John W
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09/28/2014 12:47:29 AM PDT
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blueplum
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