Posted on 11/06/2010 9:07:55 AM PDT by Errant
Der Spiegel reports on the growling-ever-louder Indonesian Merapi volcano in an article titled: Geologists Warning of Mega-Eruption of Merapi.
"The Merapi eruptions are becoming more violent – and the big bang could be just ahead. The Indonesian volcano has been spewing 800°C ash clouds for days."
According to Der Spiegel, 122 people have been killed, most on Friday. “Merapi is among the most dangerous volcanoes,” says geo-scientist Volker Steinbach of the German Federal Administration for Geoscience and Raw Materials (BGR). Der Spiegel adds:
"Friday’s eruption is its worst this decade, says the chief geologist of the Energy Administration, Raden Sukhyiar, in the “Jakarta Post”. The biggest known eruptions occurred in 1006, 1369, 1786, 1822, 1872 – destroying a large number of villages – and 1930 when 1300 people perished."
Investigations of the volcano have revealed that an unprecedented Magma reservoir lurks underneath it, says Birger Lühr, a volcano researcher at the GFZ in Potsdam, Germany.
"A rough estimate indicates that there is three times more magma than what was ejected by the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815 – the biggest eruption in the last 10,000 years, which led to a cooling of the climate globally."
Geoscientists aren’t sure what to make of this huge magma reservoir. As Der Spiegel reports, they are hesitant to make predictions of catastrophe (That’s only done in climate science, even though the odds are far less).
Word of a ‘mega-eruption’ is making the rounds among scientists. But apparently they are avoiding the use of the word to avoid being labelled preachers of disasters. ‘We can only speculate what the volcano will do,’ says Birger Lühr. Merapi is hardly predictable.
Cancel Christmas?
Reverse the circumstances (volcanos, floods, sunamis, and the Muslims would be screaming this is proof of God’s anger with the west....
Look at all those volcanoes! No wonder there is a shortage of virgins in Indonesia.
No amount of Cap-n-Tax or UN proclamations can stop a volcano.
We can still see the devastation of the Mt. Toba eruption. On the Malay peninsula, many hundreds of miles away and a location with no volcanic activity, the volcanic ash is literally hundreds and hundreds of feet thick. Any kind of similar event will have catastrophic consequences for the entire world.
Dumb question alert!
Remember the volcano that disrupted air traffic months ago? (sorry I don’t remember where it was) There were fears of it’s sister volcano blowing at that time.
Is this anywhere near?
Thanks!
(TOTAL tongue in cheek here folks, BEFORE you go all freaking out... lol)
Looks like the demon under Merapi senses the presence of it’s spiritual brother Sokebarack.
Timing, Merapi demon.... TIMING.
Christmas year long if it erupts bigger than Tambora.
Well if this is correct......
Better start buying stocks of shovels, cause the snow is gonna get pretty deep. People will be buyin em.
That was in Iceland. It is part of the Transatlantic Rift system. Quite literally those fissure volcanoes are where the earth is being pulled apart. Usually that happens under the Atlantic ocean where we aren’t able to see it. Iceland rises above the water, so we can see them clearly.
Orly!?
Well the earth is a complete system, what happens in one area affects others. We just aren’t smart enough yet to understand fully how or why.
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