The Savage Earth: Earthquakes and Volcanos

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More than 25,000 villagers were refusing to leave their homes on the slopes of a killer Indonesian volcano on Sunday despite warnings by scientists the peak was poised for a powerful eruption, officials said.
"They believe it will not erupt," said Sigit Raharjo, a spokesman for the local government close to Mount Kelud in the heart of the country's densely populated Java island. "They are being very foolish. All we can do is ask them to leave."

Kelud—one of more than 100 active volcanos in Indonesia—has been on the highest alert level for more than two weeks, but on Saturday recorded a spike in activity that led scientists to wrongly declare an eruption had begun.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SMJV5G0&show_article=1&catnum=0

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I can't imagine people being so stubborn.

[god is my protector]

it hasnt erupted yet check the bbc

[lighthouse]

yes
but you do not know the exact time
it will erupt

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http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSJAK196487._CH_.2400

Magma pushing through Indonesian volcano's crater

SUGIHWARAS, Indonesia, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Indonesia's steaming Mount Kelud volcano was dangerously close to an eruption on Monday as magma pushed through its blocked crater causing boiling water to spill down its sides, a volcanologist said on Monday



ps i saw this stated on another thread so i will respond here
this whole area is active due to its geography
it is part of the ring of fire and been active for thousands of years
not because this area is muslim

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Indonesia has the highest number of active volcanoes of any country, sitting on a belt of intense seismic activity known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire".

[sometime soon]

praying for the people there and their safty

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21755313/?GT1=10547


Volcanoes could have caused dinosaur deaths

Instead of being driven to extinction by death from above, dinosaurs might have ultimately been doomed by death from below in the form of monumental volcanic eruptions.

The suggestion is based on new research that is part of a growing body of evidence indicating a space rock alone did not wipe out the giant reptiles.

Another leading culprit is a series of colossal volcanic eruptions that occurred between 63 million to 67 million years ago. These created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava beds in India, whose original extent may have covered as much as 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square kilometers), or more than twice the area of Texas.

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http://newsminer.com/2007/11/11/9832



The Denali Fault earthquake has also helped change some ideas about how far an earthquake’s effects can travel. People in Washington reported feeling the ground move shortly after the earthquake and in places as far away as Louisiana and Pennsylvania, placid lakes were suddenly churning.

Robert Smith, a scientist at the University of Utah, has been studying what he sees as a direct link between the Alaska quake and changes in the geology and water table in Yellowstone National Park.

In the minutes and hours following the earthquake, Smith said, there were marked changes in the hydrothermal landscape of Yellowstone, 2,000 miles away from the Denali Fault. Several of the park’s geysers, famous for their regularity, suddenly had their eruption schedules thrown out of whack. It took several weeks before the geysers were back on schedule. During that same time, there were 200 to 300 small earthquakes in quick succession throughout the park.

“We were frankly pretty amazed when something of that distance triggered earthquakes here,” Smith said. “The Denali earthquake taught us a lesson that things can affect other areas, cause

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and yes anak krakatoa has been erupting
that is not dangerous it still is too small