Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 05/08/2024 1:08:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
Mount Ontake in Japan rises 3,067 meters above sea level — a windswept giant standing head and shoulders above densely forested hills. This ancient volcano is a popular trekking site. A trail traverses its ash- and boulder-strewn ridges. There are several huts and a shrine. On September 27, 2014, hikers took advantage of a blue sky and gentle wind. At 11:52 a.m., over a hundred of them stood on the summit, eating snacks and taking photos. Disaster struck with little warning.
The windows and doors of a nearby hut rattled, vibrated by a low-frequency shock wave inaudible to humans.
People glanced around curiously and quickly saw it — half a kilometer down the southwest slope, a gray cloud billowed from the mountain.
The ash cloud swept over the summit with a blast of hot air, leaving people shaken and blinded, but otherwise unhurt. Disoriented in that gray fog, they couldn’t see what arrived soon after.
Thud-thud. Thud. Rocks blasted out of the mountain rained down from the sky. The barren mountaintop offered no shelter to those who desperately sought it in the swirling, gagging dust.
The tempo of hail quickened, as millions of rocks came down — most smaller than baseballs but some as large as beach balls. More and more people fell.
Roughly a million tons of ash and rock spewed from the mountain that day, ejected through several craters that hadn’t existed a moment before. Fifty-eight people died, most killed by falling rocks. Five others were never found.
When scientists investigated the aftermath, they found no new lava flows and no freshly formed ash. What exploded from the mountain wasn’t lava or fire; it was water.
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Yellowstone interior areas with all the geysers, hot springs etc. is essentially a very old very large volcano’s caldera. That is a giant plug which sits atop deep channels down to a mass of lava. Not stable and has never been for the millions of years it has been there. The “level” of the ground is monitored and if it rises a certain amount, it is thought to be a sign a big one is coming. There are articles on the relative to sea level surface movements- pretty incredible stuff about which we can do nothing. The old lava flow from the original volcano can be seen over many states on relief geodetic maps. Lava rivers that were.
Oh I will name a date! You bet I will! This man caused volcanic activity will happen on May 17th, 53 years from now at 8:30 am Mountain Time, that is unless you all start sending me your money now and stop electing democrats. It's your only hope. Spread the word.
Don’t be an Anthropogenic Volcano Denier! Send your money now! It’s your only hope.
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