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Volcano becomes active in KAMCHATKA (10,700 feet, 40 miles from the Pacific)
rian.ru ^ | Dec. 28

Posted on 12/29/2004 3:25:24 PM PST by Truth666

Ashes are ejected from the crater of the Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka to a height of up to 2,000 m. The height of the ejection above sea level exceeded 5,000 m.

The seismic stations near the volcano register underground tremors from a depth of up to 5,000 m and interrupted spasmodic volcanic vibration.

For the greater part of the past 24 hours it was impossible to conduct video observation of Shiveluch because of bad weather but scientists hold the view that some ejections are accompanied by fragmentation avalanches.

Shiveluch (its height is 3,283 m) is now at the stage of active eruption


TOPICS: Extended News; Russia; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: environment; globalwarming; kamchatka; suvs; volcano
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To: Squantos

Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

(When all else fails, play dead)


101 posted on 12/29/2004 6:28:59 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("The sword is not the cause of murder, and there is no sin upon him who made it.")
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To: tutstar

read later


102 posted on 12/29/2004 6:30:21 PM PST by tutstar ( <{{--->< http://ripe4change.4-all.org Violations of Florida Statutes ongoing!)
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To: Truth666

Kamchatka volcano reactivates

14:51 2004-04-19

Shiveluch, Kamchatka's northernmost active volcano, has erupted a 8,000-meter-high pillar of ash.

The eruption, which took place at 7.26 a.m. local time and which was accompanied by an earthquake that lasted 4.5 minutes, produced an ash cloud, which could be seen at a height of about 1,000 m above the crater for more than an hour, reported the Kamchatka seismological expedition.

A photo from a spacecraft provided by the USA's Alaska-based volcanological observatory shows a clearly discernible extensive thermal anomaly. Seismological stations are registering spasmodic volcanic quakes.

Shiveluch (3,283 m high) reactivated after a long calm this January.

At the moment, the volcano is not dangerous for the settlements of the peninsula. Its activity only threatens the peninsula's transport communications with mudflows.

103 posted on 12/29/2004 6:45:00 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Good grief that place is one big volcano. I would NOT wish to live there.


104 posted on 12/29/2004 7:26:12 PM PST by WVNan
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To: OldFriend
Google is your friend

Now, OldFriend, if I should have googled for that just think of all the people I would have deprived of feeling so much more intelligent than myself. And, you would not have had the opportunity to chastize me for not googling. :)

105 posted on 12/29/2004 7:29:58 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Evidently he was on the beach with the rest of the tourists...


106 posted on 12/29/2004 7:36:11 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: Strategerist

Thanks for the insight -- that is why I asked the question. I knew the Freeper community would be able to set the record straight.

Thanks!


107 posted on 12/29/2004 7:46:39 PM PST by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: 76834

Just look at all the very large quakes rocking Japan during the Fall... St. Helens, Mexico... the Sumatra Earthquake, so makes sense something is going on -- something more major than people are letting on (IMO)


108 posted on 12/29/2004 8:05:39 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Truth666

I had nightmares about the Kamchatka Peninsula for several years in the nineties. I don't know why. Just seeing a map of the region scares the heck out of me.


109 posted on 12/29/2004 8:10:24 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: John W
This is from memory,but,I believe a good hint would be:"The target is destroyed."

Good memory:
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CP: 805, try to shoot the target with missiles.
805: Yes, I am trying missiles now
CP: OK.
CP: 805, get closer to the target and destroy it!
805: I am doing it.
6.24. CP: 805, are you getting closer?
805: I am watching the target, getting ready for the attack.
805: Missile launched.
805: Target destroyed.
éî: Stop the attack.
805: Yes, Sir.

110 posted on 12/29/2004 8:11:06 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Got Wood?)
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To: WVNan
I have in my possession an old, 1945, edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the description of Kamchatka's climate made me laugh when I read it. You have to realize that these articles are written by the stoic British explorers of the early 20th century, who can usually find a little bit of beauty on even the harshest shore...

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Though much of the peninsula is situated in the same latitude as the British Isles, its climate is extremely severe. The short June to August summer is cooler than on the mainland of Siberia, particularly on the east, where the effect of the open ocean is emphasised by a cold current. Monsoonal rain is heavy at this season and Bergman noted heavy snowdrifts lying in the south of the peninsula in the second week in June, 1920. Winter snowstorms are frequent and of such violence that travel in them is impossible. Coastal fogs are prevalent in summer. ... The average annual precipitation is 40 in. or more and is excessive in view of the lack of evaporation. The rivers are frozen for 6 months or more.

Much of Kamchatka is tundra-covered; mosquitoes are a terrible plague in summer. In other places is the dense Alschovnik (Alnus maximowiczi) jungle coming quite close to the settlements, and notably to Petropavlovsk, often 7 ft. high in summer and difficult to penetrate even with an axe.

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And don't forget the frequent volcanic eruptions. I can't even repeat what the EB guys say about the locals on the peninsula. But hey, except for that it's a Garden of Eden!

111 posted on 12/29/2004 8:15:05 PM PST by Siegfried
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To: 76834
The "Ring of Fire" could be warming up big time.

It is a long way to the Ring of Fire to this volcano.

USGS has a list of the most recent earthquakes. There have been a few between Japan & Alaska -- which is near where this volcano is.

The scary thing is what happened in 1812 -- around this time of year -- near St Louis, Missouri.

In late January, there was a 7.8 earthquake -- huge for the US. Then ten days later one of the largest earthquakes [recorded] hit the continential 48 states -- an 8.0 quake.

I am not saying this will happen, but there have been a number of 6's and 5's in the Indonesia/India area since the 9.0. One of the things obscured by the 9.0 is that there was a major 7.5 quake less than 4 hours after the 9.0

The ring of fire is still hopping -- but Kamchatka is probably only 5,000 miles away -- maybe only 3,000 to 4,000 miles away.

112 posted on 12/29/2004 9:36:57 PM PST by topher (God bless & Protect our Troops)
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