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2019-06-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Volcano, dormant for almost 100 years, erupts in 'spectacular' fashion

[USA Today] The volcano sat dormant for almost a century. Then at 4 a.m. last Saturday, it awoke.

In striking photos captured by satellites and astronauts on the International Space Station, smoke billows from the volcano on Raikoke, northeast of Japan. The uninhabited island saw its first volcanic eruption since 1924.

The photos released this week by NASA show volcanic plumes that rarely rise from the stratovolcano, which is almost a half-mile wide and 650 feet deep.

Raikoke is a tiny island of not even 2 square miles in the Sea of Okhotsk and has been under Russia's control since World War II.

The eruption consisted of at least nine explosions and lasted into the evening, according to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-28 01:17|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 Maybe those in/near Seattle will pop.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-28 02:48|| 2019-06-28 02:48|| Front Page Top

#2 As I recall, the city of Enumclaw sits atop of one of the most recent lahars. Perhaps not the best place to be the next time Ranier lets off steam.

Posted by Mercutio 2019-06-28 07:38|| 2019-06-28 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Seattle? Is it likely any Liberals will be harmed? What does Seattle produce? Dildos...is Seattle a major producer of Dildoes?

( I am rolling over and going back to sleep. ) MORE proof of Climate Change ? A smoking island less than half mile wide located somewhere off the coast of Siberia somewhere? Are the Polar Bears safe ? Go interview the Kardasians , or maybe George Clooney ( or someone else just as Wise ) and ask their opinion of what we should DO, about this important matter.

Posted by Count Galeazzo Hupese3742 2019-06-28 07:54|| 2019-06-28 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Decrapio save us! Love vulcanos, living next to one, not so much.

Does Microsoft build dildos? Would no surprise me one byte :)

Posted by Woodrow 2019-06-28 08:19|| 2019-06-28 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe those in/near Seattle will pop.

Seattle city council would just go into special session to try to figure out how to tax it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-28 08:25|| 2019-06-28 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 It's Trump's fault.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-06-28 08:52|| 2019-06-28 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 It's Trump's fault.

The volcano has been dormant for 100 years. Suddenly, Trump is President and it erupts. Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by SteveS 2019-06-28 09:36|| 2019-06-28 09:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Vulcan is displeased with humans

Posted by DarthVader 2019-06-28 10:08|| 2019-06-28 10:08|| Front Page Top

#9 You didn't watch American Gods. Vulcan was killed by Odin in a scene not in the book. It was a fully political issue added a Vulcan was making guns.

Posted by 3dc 2019-06-28 10:18|| 2019-06-28 10:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Want to bet the climate change types will just ignore this event? How many thousands of tons of (pick your poison) did this things blow into the atmosphere?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-06-28 15:07|| 2019-06-28 15:07|| Front Page Top

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