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Mount Etna erupts, shuts down Italian airport

Rebekah Marcarelli
Headlines & Global News
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:27 UTC
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© NASAAn image of Mt.Etna erupting taken from the International Space Station in 2008.

Europe's most active volcano shot sparks, flames, and ash into Italy's sky Saturday.

Mount Etna erupts relatively frequently, but the volcano has not had a major eruption since 1992. Saturday's eruption sent a wall of ash so high into the air it could be seen through most of eastern Sicily, the Associated Press reported.

The eruption just before dawn forced the Catania airport to shut down the surrounding airspace. The order was lifted only a few hours later.

No evacuations were necessary as a result of the eruption. There were not fatalities reported, a the Wall Street Journal reported.

The volcano has been famous throughout history. The ancient Greeks believed it was the home of Vulcan, the god of fire. When Mt. Etna erupted the Greeks believed it was because Vulcan was creating weapons for the the god of war, Mars, LiveScience reported.

Mount Etna also sent lava hundreds of feet into the air in January of 2011.
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Ash explosion at Indonesia's Mount Sinabung

Becky Oskin
LiveScience
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:24 UTC
Mount Sinabung
© YouTubeA still from a video showing the ongoing ash eruption at Indonesia's Mount Sinabung.
A powerful ash eruption shot 2 miles (3 kilometers) into the air at Indonesia's Mount Sinabung on Thursday (Oct. 24), according to news reports. There were no injuries or damage, but authorities evacuated 3,300 people living near the volcano as thick ash fell across the region. There are 29 villages within a 4-mile (6 km) radius of Mount Sinabung.

The volcano awoke last month after a three-year sleep, sparking forest fires and jetting ash and volcanic gas. The 8,530-foot-high (2,600 meter) peak is one of 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia. Mount Sinabung erupted in 2010 after a 400-year period of inactivity. More than 17,500 people were evacuated at the time.
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'Volcano-like eruption' on Manipur hill, India see locals flee to safety


Times of India
Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:06 UTC
A suspected volcano-like eruption has been reported in a remote village of Manipur near the India-Myanmar border which forced locals to evacuate the area, official sources said on Sunday.

According to locals in Tusom village in Ukhrul district of Manipur, a deafening sound was followed by the rolling down of a huge boulder from a nearby hilltop which then released a lava-like liquid that charred trees and plants on the hill slopes.

Although the incident reportedly occurred on October 13, road link between the district headquarters and Tusom was so bad it took the villagers several days to reach the information about the matter to the officials concerned, sources said.

The district headquarters is 120km away from the village. No casualty was, however, reported in the incident. Official reports from the district said mud, water and other discharges were still flowing from the hilltop. Villagers have moved to safer places in the neighbourhood, they added.

Sources said it would take time to assess whether the event was a volcanic eruption or not.
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Volcanic activity worldwide, 12 October 2013: Klyuchevskoy, Kamchatka - Soufriere Hills, Montserrat - Jebel Zubair, Red Sea


volcanodiscovery.com
Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:51 UTC
Klyuchevskoy (Kamchatka): (11 Oct) We posted the following time-lapse video of the eruption this morning (or evening, in Kamchatka time). At 08:30 UTC (17:30 local time), a new vent opened in the saddle between Klyuchevskoy and neighboring Kamen volcano, producing a fountain of lava and ash rising to about 7 km altitude. The KVERT webcam even captured lightning during this eruption:


Comment: The Jebel Zubair volcano also erupted in December 2011, resulting in the formation of a new island.

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Alaska's Veniaminof Volcano erupts- sends traces of ash over 2 Alaskan communities


The Extinction Protocol
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:10 UTC
Veniaminof volcano
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A volcano on the Alaska Peninsula has again become active during a months-long eruption, with a trace of ash falling on communities up to 35 miles away. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says in a release that Veniaminof Volcano resumed its 2013 eruption on Saturday after being quiet for about a month. It's been marked by lava flows, fountaining and intermittent but small ash, steam and gas plumes. The plumes usually only travel a few miles from the volcano, but the communities of Chignik Lake and Chignik Lagoon, about 35 miles away, reported trace ash on Friday. The observatory says ash fall from the volcano 480 miles southwest of Anchorage is not considered to be significant. The eruption started in June.
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New Zealand's White Island Volcano erupts: alert level raised


The Extinction Protocol
Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:02 UTC
White Island
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New Zealand's geological agency GNS Science said on Saturday that it's raised the alert level for White Island after the volcano erupted. The agency said a moderate explosion eruption, lasting about a minute, happened just after 8 p.m. Friday night. GNS Science said the volcanic alert level has been raised from one to two which indicates minor activity. The aviation color code has been upgraded to orange, the second- highest alert level. GNS volcanologist Arthur Jolly said the eruption was about the same size as the previous one in August 2012, Radio New Zealand reported. Jolly said the eruption threw mostly mud, rather than ash, into the air. He said bad weather on Saturday prevented GNS volcanologists from flying over the island to observe the volcano.
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Best of the Web: Signs of change in the last week of September 2013

HawkkeyDavis Channel
YouTube
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:00 UTC
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The events around the world have been unprecedented over the last few weeks. Some of the most dramatic and unbelievable footage I've ever seen from events that took place in the past week or so. Please use these videos for awareness to these ongoing extremes that seem to be getting worse each week. Prepare for disasters in your area! You're no different than others that are already dealing with them and most were not ready...

In just a couple of weeks we saw a devastating typhoon hit Japan and China, a 'one-in-one-thousand-years' flood hit Colorado, record rainfall in Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, Brazil, and India, fireballs turning night into day over Canada and the US, a powerful tornado in Sao Paulo, a 7.7 earthquake in Pakistan that formed a new island in the ocean, followed just 4 days later by 7.2 in the same region, a 7.0 earthquake in Peru, a daytime fireball in Alabama...these are just some of the highlights from the last week of another crazy month on planet Earth!

Thanks for watching here and stay safe!

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Eurasia's highest volcano Klyuchevskoi spews ash up to 3.7 miles


The Extinction Protocol
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:12 UTC
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Eurasia's highest volcano, Klyuchevskoi, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, churned out ash to a height of six kilometers (3.7 miles) on Thursday morning, local Emergencies Ministry's department reported. "The cloud of ash moved in the eastern direction from the volcano," the department said in a statement adding that the cloud of ash posed no danger to residential areas.

The statement warned all tourism companies operating in the region against holding tours in the areas located near the volcano, which can also pose threat to aircraft. Klyuchevskoi's most powerful eruption was registered between January and May of 2005. Following that eruption, the volcano "sank" by 50 meters (about 165 feet), from 4,800 meters (about 16,000 feet) to the current 4,750 meters (15,845 feet). Kamchatka lies within the Pacific's volatile 'Ring of Fire.' - Voice of Russia
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Deadly 13th-century volcano eruption: Mystery solved?

Brian Handwerk
National Geographic
Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:46 UTC
One of history's great disaster mysteries may be solved - the case of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 3,700 years. Nearly 800 years ago, the blast that was recorded, and then forgotten, may also have created a "Pompeii of the Far East," researchers suggest, which might lie buried and waiting for discovery on an Indonesian island.

The source of an eruption that scattered ash from pole to pole has been pinpointed as Samalas volcano on Indonesia's Lombok Island. The research team, led by geographer Franck Lavigne of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, has now dated the event to between May and October of 1257. The findings were published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"It's been a long time that some people have been looking," said Lavigne. After glaciologists turned up evidence for the blast three decades ago, volcano experts had looked for the origin of the eruption everywhere from New Zealand's Okataina volcano to Mexico's El Chichón.

The previously unattributed eruption was an estimated eight times as large as the famed Krakatau explosion (1883) and twice as large as Tambora in 1815, the researchers estimate. (Related: "Tambora: The Greatest Explosion in History.") "Until now we thought that Tambora was the largest eruption for 3,700 years," Lavigne said, but the study reveals that the 1257 event was even larger.
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Pakistan's new mud volcano is spewing flammable gas


io9.com
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:20 UTC
The latest addition to Pakistan's shoreline looks like a gigantic, steaming turd laid by a Kaiju. The mud volcano - which appeared suddenly last week after a 7.7 magnitude tremblor struck the region - has been belching toxic fumes that can be set alight.

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© NASA
The top image was taken by NASA's Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. The image below comes via the National Institute of Oceanography. It shows a close-up of the landform, estimated to stretch 75 to 90 meters (250 to 300 feet) across and standing 15 to 20 meters (60 to 70 feet) above the water line.

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