The Savage Earth: Earthquakes and Volcanos

[BlessHisName]

I know! I am anxious to see... lighthouse must have a commute like me...

I'm very anxious too!

[BlessHisName]

Is that her car? Is she home yet?

[lighthouse]

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Vanuatu/Maps/map_vanuatu_volcanoes.html

Major Volcanoes of the Republic of Vanuatu

ps i am looking for something

but this area is home to 12 volcanoes
and a new one formed in the past year
right in the ocean

[BlessHisName]

Wow!! There doesn't appear to be anywhere safe if one of them decides to blow!!

[lighthouse]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=qw1148871241851B252
Vanuatu volcano's lake turns red

May 29 2006 at 03:52PM

By Ray Lilley

Wellington, New Zealand - Volcanologists were puzzled Monday about why a lake atop a rumbling volcano on the South Pacific island of Ambae has changed colour from blue to bright red.

Mount Manaro, one of four volcanos currently active in the island nation of Vanuatu, has been showing signs of erupting for only the second time in 122 years.


from last year

[lighthouse]

Vanuatu Earthquake (Mag 7.2), 2nd August 2007
A major earthquake (magnitude 7.2) hit Vanuatu this morning at 4:08 am local time. The earthquake epicentre was located 38 km SW of Ambae volcano, and 85 km NW of Ambrym volcano. The earthquake had an intermediate depth focus of 145 km. Earthquakes of this magnitude sometimes disrupt nearby volcanoes. There was a magnitude 5.1 aftershock one hour later.


http://volcanolive.blogspot.com/2007/08/vanuatu-earthquake-mag-72-2nd-august.html

[lighthouse]

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/originals/Weber-Toba/ch4_climate/textr4.htm
toba
is in indonesia
but same side of the earth
toba is/was a super volcano

the volcanoes worldwide are waking up
earthquakes can be a sign of this
as the lave moves it causes quakes

[lighthouse]

http://barrymaydom.tripod.com/barryinvanuatu/id1.html

Vanuatu lies on the edge of the Pacific tectonic plate, which is being forced over the Indo-Australian plate, leading to volcanoes and earthquakes. There are 9 active volcanoes, cyclones hit the nation regularly and earthquakes in 1999 caused tsunamis which flattened whole villages. At least there's some nice beaches.

[lighthouse]

list of erupting volcanoes worldwide
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-tours/index.php?id=862&L=0&type=98

[lighthouse]

http://www.intlvrc.org/cerupt.htm
info on volcanic activty

volcanos can do more damage then a quake
that is what i fear that will happen on that side of the world
the activity over there is increasing
but a major eruption any where in the world can/will affect the entire world

for instance in 1815


MOUNT Tambora in the Dutch East Indies erupted on April 5, 1815, spewing 25 cubic miles of debris into the upper atmosphere. The eruption is thought to have been the most powerful on Earth in the past 10,000 years.


Temperatures plummeted, and 1816 came to be known as ''the year without a summer.''Snow fell in
New York State in June




http://snr.unl.edu/metr351-03/dgutzmer/Tambora.html


Mt. Tambora began rumbling on April 5, 1815 and continued for seven days, but at the end of that historic week, life was cataclysmically different.



It was this horrific eruption that led to the year without a summer, which was how the summer of 1816 came to be known. With so much ash and volcanic matter in the stratosphere, little sunlight penetrated the atmosphere to heat the earth's surface and allowed killing frosts in the summer of 1816. Many people starved and froze.





http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Year_Without_A_Summer


It is now generally thought that the aberrations occurred because of the 5 April – 15 April 1815 volcanic eruptions of Mount Tambora[5][6] on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) which ejected immense amounts of volcanic dust into the upper atmosphere.

Other volcanoes were active during the same time frame:

La Soufrière on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean in 1812
Mayon in the Philippines in 1814
These other eruptions had already built up a substantial amount of atmospheric dust. As is common following a massive volcanic eruption, temperatures fell worldwide owing to less sunlight passing through the atmosphere.





Climate changes of 535–536 have been linked to the effects of a volcanic eruption, probably at Krakatoa.




ps


The Tambora eruption has been estimated to be the most violent in historical times. The explosion is believed to have lifted 150 to 180 cubic kilometres of material into the atmosphere. For a comparison, the infamous 1883 eruption of Krakatau ejected only 20 cubic kilometres of material into the air, and yet it affected sunsets for several years after.
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/1816.htm