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To: PeaceBeWithYou
Glacier melts on Kibo(Kilimanjaro) could be a precursor to it becoming more active.

As active volcano in Africa could cause tens of dollars worth of damage.

14 posted on 10/18/2002 7:02:49 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead
As active volcano in Africa could cause tens of dollars worth of damage.

Let's hope that's the worst it does if it does anything, but given that it is a Stratovolcano, which can either flow lava, erupt violently, or explode into a pyroclastic cloud and rain down living hell for thousands of miles. Thus given it's location, it could cause little or no damage to Africa, or billions and billions of dollars worth of damage and loss of life across the Africa, the Middle East, and India, as well as make a global impact on world climate for years to come.

Lets just hope it remains dormant, or at most, flows some lava. Few things have as much potential to cause as much chaos as a pyroclastic Stratovolcano with a crater 1.5 miles wide. There is geologic evidence, however that it has done both in the very distant past.

15 posted on 10/18/2002 5:54:31 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
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