Posted on 09/30/2007 8:30:23 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace
TORONTO: A volcano has erupted on a tiny island off the coast of Yemen, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air, a Canadian naval vessel near the island in the Red Sea reported. The Yemeni government asked NATO to assist in searching for survivors.
Ken Allan, a Navy Public Affairs with the Canadian Armed Forces, said a NATO fleet just outside the territorial waters of the island Jazirt Atta-Ir reported seeing a "catastrophic volcanic eruption" at 7 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) Sunday. The 2-mile-long (3-kilometer-long) island is about 70 miles (115 kilometers) off the coast of Yemen.
"At this time, the entire island is aglow with lava and magma as it pours down into the sea. We do not have confirmation of how many people were on this island at the time of the eruption," Allan said in an e-mail.
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that video is bitchin
bitchin? that’s odd...haven’t heard that term in a while.
Way rad huh?
OTTAWA - Canadian navy ship H-M-C-S Toronto is conducting a search-and-rescue operation to find nine people believed at sea after a volcanic eruption on Jazirt Atta-Ir island, about 140 kilometres off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea.
The navy said in a news release from Ottawa that at the time of the eruption, the NATO fleet was sailing north toward the Suez Canal.
Navy spokesman Ken Allen, aboard H-M-C-S Toronto, says the government of Yemen formally asked NATO to assist in the search for survivors.
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http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jDRYkOi9WEFyUpTjc5PdIi3w5Ssw
It was that machine Halliburton has in Dick Cheney's basement...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Jazirt+Atta-Ir&btnG=Google+Search
evidently there are some missing...having read the articles yet just the search results
Yemen isn’t an island.....do they have the name wrong?
A volcano on a tiny island off the coast of Yemen, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air, setting the entire island aglow with lava and magma as it pours down into the sea!
I'm sure AlGore and his minions will insist this too is the result of Global Warming... or Cooling....
The eruption began when the volcano exploded Sunday evening on Jabal al-Tair, an oval island about 2 miles across that is unpopulated except for a small Yemeni military base used for naval control of nearby shipping lanes.
Pixs look like your typical summer fires in San Bernardino Mtns.
Can I get carbon credits for the volcano I don’ thave in my back yard?
Looks like that darn CO2 is going to go up some more!
Wow, didn't see that comment coming...
UPDATE:
Al Gore to sell Ash/Pumice Offsets.
The island must be gone. Wow Google Earth updates are fast!
sorry, forgot my sarcasm tag. ; )
LOL!
Thanks!
We can find some ways to escape, or in extreme cases survive natural disasters. We CAN’T find ways out of supernatural (NOT ALIEN) things that might occur, meaning some kind of time rip, a black hole, or a hole opening up on the surface of the Earth and everything falling in.
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