Indonesia volcano Sinabung in deadly eruption

BBC ^ | 1 February 2014

[rdl6989]

volcano has erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, engulfing villages in ash and killing at least 14 people.

Mount Sinabung spewed hot gas, ash and rocks 2km (1.5 miles) into the air in a series of eruptions during the morning.

[hoosiermama]

Bet that lava is hotter then he’ll !

[hoosiermama]

Liberal calculator?

[Kozak]

Nope. It was Tambora.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

Krakatoa erupted in 1883.

[JimSEA]

It was Mount Tambora in Indonesia as well. It must have been something to see if you survived. It’s hard to comprehend an event larger than Krakatoa or St. Helens.

[Kozak]

And the Toba supervolcano eruption about 60000 years ago nearly caused the extinction of the human race...

[hoosiermama]

I’m envious but I did get a helicopter ride down inside the crown of the most active vulcanoe on the big island -— the day the tsunami hit. Once in a lifetime!

[JRandomFreeper]

who isn’t sacrificing their virgins?

I can't find any....

/johnny

[Olog-hai]

Sinabung’s been erupting for a while now. Where has the BBC been? Evacuation of the vulnerable areas should have been done a long time ago.

[Oratam]

This is an interesting scale of the magnitude of various historic eruptions.

[hoosiermama]

Roflol

[JimSEA]

Your graph put it in perspective.

[Gay State Conservative]

Whenever I see a story about an Indonesian volcano I think of the story of the British Airways 747 that flew through the ash cloud of just such a volcano and the ash caused all four engines to shut down.IIRC the engines were out for quite a while and the story went that some passengers were on their knees praying in the aisles.

Yikes!

[dr_lew]

Here's the MODIS Terra image of the Sinabung eruption ( brownish blob ) ... right next to Lake Toba, which of course is the caldera of the Toba eruption.

[Kozak]

And as the icing on the cake, the ash scoured the windscreens in the cockpit essentially blinding the pilots...

[Gay State Conservative]

According to Wikipedia a member of the cockpit crew made this general announcement to passengers during the crisis:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."

Distress? Hell,I would have filled my underwear within seconds of realizing that all four engines were out.

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[South Dakota]

It was a totally recall frac

[winoneforthegipper]

Thanks for the Ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks rdl6989.

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