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Canadian navy reports a "catastrophic volcanic eruption" on Red Sea island off Yemen
International Herald Tribune ^ | September 30, 2007 | AP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; eruption; redsea; usgs; volcano; yemen
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To: kingu

that video is bitchin


61 posted on 09/30/2007 11:27:37 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

bitchin? that’s odd...haven’t heard that term in a while.


62 posted on 09/30/2007 11:32:38 PM PDT by fabian
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To: fabian

Way rad huh?


63 posted on 09/30/2007 11:42:27 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

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


64 posted on 10/01/2007 1:53:19 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Sir Gawain
I blame man-made global warming for creating this volcano!

It was that machine Halliburton has in Dick Cheney's basement...

65 posted on 10/01/2007 3:05:57 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Cementjungle; CindyDawg

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


66 posted on 10/01/2007 3:48:19 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; conniew; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; ..

67 posted on 10/01/2007 4:43:25 AM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: CindyDawg

Yemen isn’t an island.....do they have the name wrong?


68 posted on 10/01/2007 5:11:58 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her PHONINESS is REAL!!!)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace
You know what burns my a$$?

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....

69 posted on 10/01/2007 5:47:15 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: CindyDawg
This is from MSNBC:

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.

Link

70 posted on 10/01/2007 7:56:33 AM PDT by bkwells (Liberals=Hypocrites)
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To: Publius6961

Pixs look like your typical summer fires in San Bernardino Mtns.


71 posted on 10/01/2007 8:57:37 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: del4hope

Can I get carbon credits for the volcano I don’ thave in my back yard?


72 posted on 10/01/2007 9:00:58 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Looks like that darn CO2 is going to go up some more!


73 posted on 10/01/2007 9:12:36 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
HUH ? go figure i didn’t know Canada had a navy !

Wow, didn't see that comment coming...

74 posted on 10/01/2007 11:25:13 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

UPDATE:

Al Gore to sell Ash/Pumice Offsets.


75 posted on 10/01/2007 11:53:11 AM PDT by sappy
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To: txflake

The island must be gone. Wow Google Earth updates are fast!


76 posted on 10/01/2007 2:49:15 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Lazarus Longer

sorry, forgot my sarcasm tag. ; )


77 posted on 10/01/2007 3:12:16 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: JSteff
The Canadian Navy also has submarine-hunters.


78 posted on 10/02/2007 11:52:03 AM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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To: MarkBsnr

LOL!

Thanks!


79 posted on 10/02/2007 8:50:14 PM PDT by JSteff (Reality= realizing you are not nearly important enough for the government to tap your phone.)
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To: dighton

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.


80 posted on 10/03/2007 9:40:25 AM PDT by wastedyears (George Orwell was a clairvoyant.)
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