Emerging from hell, the dust-caked and bloodied survivors of Mount Merapi's worst eruption yet

Mail Online/DailyMail.co.uk ^ | November 5,2010 | Mail Foreign Service

[ColdOne]

Horror scenes greeted rescuers arriving at villages near Mount Merapi after the Indonesian volcano's worst eruption in a century last night sent the death toll soaring to 122.

[UCANSEE2]

“worst eruption yet”

The real concern here is the YET .

[Uncle Ike]

” The real concern here is the YET . “

Yeah...

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Der Spiegel: Geologists Warning Of “Mega-Eruption”
Der Spiegal via NoTricksZone ^ | 5 November, 2010 | P Gosselin

Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2010 10:07:55 AM 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.”

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[Sacajaweau]

Pictures are just awful/sad.

[givemELL]

Merapai is an extremely dangerous volcano with global implications.

From the excellent climate observational website www.iceagenow.com:

http://www.iceagenow.com/Warnings_of_Merapi_MEGA_eruption.htm

Merapai has 300% more magma than Tambora in 1815.

[ColdOne]

It is just awful. My heart goes out to those poor souls.

[21twelve]

That last photo with the patch of green was very interesting on a physical level (why the green patch) and a philosophical way (there is hope).

Although it sounds like this thing is just getting started, and that patch of green might soon be buried under 20 feet of seering-hot pyroclastic flow.

[LasVegasMac]

Merapai is an extremely dangerous volcano with global implications.

AlGore, pay attention.....

Mother Nature might be ready to show you what really causes global level climate changes.

I hope for the best for those in the area.

[Cold Heart]

Buy home insulation now.(also light bulbs,ammo, McDonald’s toys)

[Huebolt]

Krakatau (Indonesian: Krakatau), often mispelled Krakatoa, is a volcanic island made of a'a lava[2] in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island (also called Rakata), and the volcano as a whole. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately 40,000 people, although some estimates put the death toll much higher. The explosion is still considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history, with reports of it being heard nearly 3,000 miles from its point of origin. The shock wave from the explosion was recorded on barographs around the globe

Common knowledge, I know. It was even made into an interesting movie once upon a time. Living near a volcano looks like a real bad idea, mostly.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

often mispelled Krakatoa

"Misspelled" (mis + spelled) is one of the most often misspelled words in the English language.

[21twelve]

I have a book about Krakatoa - from the 70’s I suppose. Lots of old photos, drawings, paintings and historical information such as ship logs, etc..

It is on the scientific side of things with lots of barometric pressure measurements from around the world (to measure the air blast!), sea level readings from around the world (to measure the tsunami, which locally was 90 feet plus tall. (Earthquake-caused tsunami’s can only reach about 30 feet IIRC). But a huge landslide, or volcano - can cause much larger tsunamis.

Nasty stuff.

[muawiyah]

Naples is still one of Earth's greatest cities and that bay out front is part of a volcanic structure of immense proportions. The volcanos around the bay are mere fumeroles!

The inhabitants of the region wouldn't have it any other way.

[muawiyah]

“spelt in error as” is much preferred in certain circles.

[Justice]

[Wally_Kalbacken]

One hell of a blast!

[TASMANIANRED]

Prayers for suffering innocents.

[txhurl]

Merapai has 300% more magma than Tambora in 1815.

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Then it’s time to prepare for no sunlight for a long time.

It’s not like we could or would nuke the thing to collapse it, not that that would help much.

[Eye of Unk]

I think its going to go like Krakatoa, but not much larger, and that is me hoping it won’t be larger. All the numbers, the time since the last eruption in that area all seem to point to something happening very soon.

[txhurl]

Would be the least of your worries. Especially if the eruption caused a subsidence tsunami...

Unlike a fracture tsunami caused by an uplift in the crust, the wave generated would not break on hitting the shore - like the tsunami some years back off Indonesia.

This wave would be a standing wave many kilometers broad and high at the crest, traveling at 300-600 mph and only break only when hitting some higher structure - like a mountain range.

And the “ripples” would likely travel around the world inundating most coastal cities — and most of Alaska.

Returning to the 7th Century might seem like Heaven... Think worldwide chaos and people everywhere in a state of shock like nothing seen in modern times.

59 posted on Saturday, November 06, 2010 1:21:20 PM by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)

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Like Blam said, it’s always something.