Japanese volcano erupts

[Bosonic]

Source: Sapa-AFP

A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, a local official says.

It was not immediately clear if the eruption was a direct result of the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked northern areas Friday, unleashing a fierce tsunami and sparking fears that more than 10,000 may have been killed.

Read more: http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article965229.ece/Japanese-volcano-erupts

[liberal N proud]

1. The Japanese are not getting any breaks

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[Zephie]

3. Holy **** Japan, I am so sorry!

This is just unbelievable.

[City Lights]

4. Good grief!

:hug:

[somone]

5. Shit

They do not need another disaster.

[Fuddnik]

6. All they need now is a freak typhoon, and a visit by a Bush Family emissary.

Then they'll have all the disasters covered.

[Raschel]

7. So is this really news or hype? It says the volcano's been quiet for two weeks, so is the eruption

unusual?

[Bosonic]

8. from body of article...

volcano quiet for 52 years, then erupts in Jan 2011, and is presumably active-ish until two weeks ago, and then reerupts today.

So any causality, if it exists at all, is a bit slippy.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

14. This new eruption is different..

January's eruption was mostly steam and ash, this video shows that the new eruption is lava. Quakes like this "feed" the closest magma pool, and now that pressure has to be released.


http://robotceleb.com/news/217081-03132011-japan-volcano-live-video-footage.html

Japan's Shinmoedake volcano spews ash and rock two days after quake

Glass panes on buildings as far away as four miles were shattered in the blast and the bang could be heard further away. Hundreds of people had fled the area after volcanic debris, like hot ash and rocks, flew more than 2,000 meters up in the air, BBC had reported.

Volcanologists had warned then that a "dome of lava was growing larger inside the volcano's crater" though it was uncertain if it would blow the top off any time soon.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/122076/20110314/japan-shinmoedake-volcano-shinmoe-dake-erupted-erupts-ash-rock-earthquake-tsunami.htm#ixzz1GVL6IeFY

[riverbendviewgal]

9. Volcano erupts in Southern Japan

Source: The Toronto Star/Associated Press




TOKYO—Japan’s weather agency says a volcano in southern Japan has resumed eruptions of ash and rocks as the country struggles with the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the north.

The Meteorological Agency issued a warning Sunday saying that Shinmoedake volcano had resumed shooting out gas, boulders and ash after a couple weeks of inactivity.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/953212--volcano-erupts-in-southern-japan?bn=1

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I checked CNN and they don't have anything on this yet.

[MineralMan]

10. I imagine the earthquake was responsible for the renewed

activity. Makes sense. However, the volcano was erupting so recently, that it's unlikely that the earthquake caused the eruption. It probably just triggered it to erupt again after a short pause. Volcanoes are most definitely connected with the type of subduction area where the quake occurred.

[defendandprotect]

16. The earthquakes are connected to Global Warming --

and I agree with others who think probably volcanic activity is also connected to

Global Warming --

There's a thread up now where Japan was informed that the nuclear reactors weren't

safe because of increasing seismic activity -- they were built based on seismic

activity and standards 40 years ago.

Pentagon warned W that Global Warming was a more serious threat to our nation than

"terrorism" -- among the long lists of increasing theats such as droughts/floods,

chaotic weather conditions, increases in storms, hurricanes and the severity of it

all -- cyclones, tornadoes, etal -- EARTHQUAKES were included -- but the warning was

subsequently scrubbed of that reference.

Since the first impact -- Japan has suffered 140 aftershocks were also very high --

some of them registered over 8 -- and all within the next 24 hours. Since then,

the number has risen to the "hundreds."

So much activity that Japan is fearful of another tsunami --




http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4766429&mesg_id=4769104

[MineralMan]

17. No, actually, they are not connected in any way to global warming.

Nice try, though.

[Scuba]

11. Just what they need. If you're religious, pray for these people.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. I wonder what effect lava has on nuclear radiation?

If there was a China syndrome thing going on with the meltdown, could the contaminated leak filter into the lava tubes and spew out through the volcano?

[quakerboy]

19. That seems unlikely

The volcano is SW, the quake and nuclear issues are NE. Granted, Japan is small relative to the US, but big enough that these should have no chance of coinciding in the way you suggest.

[hlthe2b]

13. OMG... I thought this was the Onion. How can one country be so

deluged with natural (and man-made) disaster? Largest earthquake in country's history followed by a Tsunami of epic proportions, record numbers and magnitude of aftershocks, the potential meltdown of multiple nuclear power plants, and now a volcano resumes activity--even if this volcano has been active in recent past...

Truth stranger than fiction, in this case..... Heavens.

[WatsonT]

15. So earthquake/tsunami, nuclear plant issues

and now a volcano.

Hopefully disasters only happen in threes.

They really don't need an outbreak of some new disease, or another series of earthquakes/tsnamis.

Although I imagine this will crash their already hurting economy.

Rough break.

[Baclava]

18. Whoa

The Meteorological Agency issued a warning Sunday saying that Shinmoedake volcano resumed activity after a couple of quiet weeks.

The mountain is on Kyushu island, 950 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the epicenter of Friday's magnitude 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami, which devastated much of the country's northeastern coast.

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