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Japanese volcano erupts
Times Live ^ | 03/13/11

Posted on 03/13/2011 7:18:42 AM PDT by KevinDavis

A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, a local official says.

It was not immediately clear if the eruption was a direct result of the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked northern areas Friday, unleashing a fierce tsunami and sparking fears that more than 10,000 may have been killed.

(Excerpt) Read more at timeslive.co.za ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Japan
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; earthquake; eruption; japan; japanearthquake; ringoffire; tsunami; volcano
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To: Kartographer

Or the X-Men or Flying Saucers.


41 posted on 03/13/2011 8:20:16 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Charlie Sheen is for our punishment only.


42 posted on 03/13/2011 8:21:51 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: KevinDavis

Ring of Fire...all interconnected.


43 posted on 03/13/2011 8:22:12 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: newfreep

44 posted on 03/13/2011 8:24:24 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: EBH

I think it went Haiti, then Chile, then New Zealand, then Japan. So if it’s moving clockwise, I think Alaska would be next.


45 posted on 03/13/2011 8:25:45 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: shadeaud

We know from New Orleans that they won’t send in buses. Unless there is a union cause to protest, the buses will remain parked.


46 posted on 03/13/2011 8:28:13 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: shadeaud

We know from New Orleans that they won’t send in buses. Unless there is a union cause in need of astroturfing, the buses will remain parked.


47 posted on 03/13/2011 8:28:39 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: Riley

You would have a big Cajun-style barbecue right there in the street.


48 posted on 03/13/2011 8:30:19 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: KevinDavis

Has Japan made secret deals with Obama and now they are being punished?


49 posted on 03/13/2011 8:32:31 AM PDT by Leep
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To: patriciaruth

You almost have the right answer...

It’s solar activity and geothermal activity.


51 posted on 03/13/2011 8:34:13 AM PDT by proudpapa
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To: sten


52 posted on 03/13/2011 8:34:30 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Obama,"I can see the mushroom cloud from the ninth hole!"

Deadly!

53 posted on 03/13/2011 8:34:36 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: OldNavyVet

Earth is undergoing entopic decline. I don’t know if that’s ‘evolving’, but it is a real, testable phenomenon and related tot he electrical nature of our planet. The magnetic filed is declining and the torsion fields are in flux. All the plates ‘float’ on a magma layer which allows them to move in fits and starts, jerking the puny constructs of men around int he process. ... The planet is a dynamic system just doing its thing.


54 posted on 03/13/2011 8:35:18 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

‘entopic’??? ... Make that ENTROPIC, as in entropy, the energy system is in decline.


55 posted on 03/13/2011 8:38:16 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: NRG1973

What’s next for Japan?

War?

China has an amazing military. And strategically, I can’t imagine a better time to attack...

Especially since the US military is already tied up in Afghanistan and Iraq.


56 posted on 03/13/2011 8:39:27 AM PDT by proudpapa
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To: VanDeKoik
It happens 24 hours a day, and seven days a week for billions of years.

"Corals have daily and annual rings of activity, and growth rings from four hundred million years ago show that there were then four hundred days a year."

From "Darwin's Ghost," Steve Jones, page 231.

57 posted on 03/13/2011 8:46:01 AM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: proudpapa

And why on Earth would China just up and send its military to invade Japan?

Just one small part of Japan was hit, most of the rest of the country is more or less fine.

China may be Communist, but they aren’t that dumb.


58 posted on 03/13/2011 8:46:24 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: Sacajaweau
"These monster quakes will continue until the plates are again comfortable with themselves."

Sadly, no one alive today will ever see that happen. The plate tectonics/vulcanism inside of the Earth is almost like a perpetual motion machine. The cycle is seemingly endless, but at some time(another 2 billion years?) it WILL end, and then we're 'Mars'(dead planet).

59 posted on 03/13/2011 8:46:24 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: KevinDavis

Holy cow, the Japanese just can’t get a break this week.


60 posted on 03/13/2011 8:47:19 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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