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Pacific Ring of Fire: “Very High Threat” for United States!

Incomplete list of reports from 24SEP2018 through to 25OCT2018.

There Are 40 Volcanoes Erupting On Earth Right Now. Here’s Why

Earth enters ‘CRITICAL’ period 

MEGA tremor ‘to strike over Christmas period’?

Why Earthquake Magnitude Is Not What You Think It Is

Earth’s Magnetic Fields Could Give Lightspeed Warning of Earthquakes

Earthquakes for Kids

AUSTRALIA: 

Tasmania; Newly discovered chain of underwater volcanoes used by whales to migrate?

CANADA:

British Columbia;  Several 6.5 quakes reported near Vancouver Island

New underwater earthquake early-warning sensors

CHILE: 5.0 quake

4.8 quake

4.0 quake

How an earthquake in CHILE could trigger a tsunami big enough to strike AUSTRALIA

COLUMBIA: 4.4 quake

COSTA RICA: 4.8 quake

ECUADOR: 5.0 quake

4.7 quake

FIJI: 6.2 quake

GUATEMALA: 5.3 quake

4.8 quake

4.0 quake

HONDURAS: 

U.S. President Donald Trump put U.S. Marines and Navy personnel on disaster relief standby in Honduras, 26SEP2018 (does he know something?).

INDONESIA:   volcano almost WIPES OUT boat tour 

Anak Krakatau volcano activity increases

Volcano erupts days after devastating earthquake

liquefaction blamed for building collapses

45-thousand pregnant women and one big earthquake

The Science of Indonesia’s Surprise Tsunami

U.S. President Trump increased U.S. disaster relief to Indonesia by extending the tour of duties of USAF personnel helping with USAID deliveries.

JAPAN: Kuchinoerabu-jima volcano news & activity updates

Fukushima rocked by 5.0 magnitude quake off coast

Japan orders maker to fix failed quake shock absorbers

Video report of USAF earthquake supply deliveries for Hokkaido:

KOREA: earthquake rattles Gyeongju

 2017 bomb test set off later earthquakes

MEXICO: Volcano spews ash on Mexico City

Huge 2017 Earthquake Split A Tectonic Plate, shocking ‘experts’

 NEW CALEDONIA: 6.3 quake

NEW ZEALAND: Big fail at basic earthquake prep!

New Zealand’s next big earthquake is going to strike

PANAMA: 3.6 quake

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  7 magnitude earthquake

PHILIPPINES: Eruption of the world’s deepest undersea volcano

RUSSIA: 6.7 quake

6.4 quake

Ebeko Volcano erupts

TAIWAN (REPUBLIC OF CHINA):  likely to experience magnitude 7.0 or higher earthquake soon

5.7 quake 

UNITED STATES: 18 U.S. volcanoes considered a ‘very high threat,’ USGS says

New west coast ShakeAlert system

Japanese Tsunami: U.S. Pacific Northwest Dodged ‘Proverbial Bullet’ 

Alaska; Two Unprecedented Earthquakes Shake Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

22 fresh tremors ROCK Alaska

Quake triggers massive highway mudslide

Tanaga volcano

California;  California supervolcano: Yellowstone is not the real danger

NASA discovers 217 MILE-LONG fault 

Earthquake drill stills playgrounds

the annual Great Shake Out

900K San Diegans participated in earthquake drill

Hawaii;  East Rift Zone Inflation Continues

Earthquakes Are Taking Place On  Kilauea Volcano

Volcanic Ash Raised New Concerns

New property tax rate for people living in volcano zone?

Island farmers lost $28M from damages caused by volcano 

USAF personnel plan disaster relief ops at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, 13OCT2018.

Northern Mariana Islands; 

U.S. Navy personnel conduct disaster relief ops on the U.S. Commonwealth, 22OCT2018.

Oregon; Faults discovered on Mount Hood could trigger 7.2 quake  

4.5 quake

Utah;  earthquake hits near Bountiful

Wyoming; Yellowstone eruption would be ‘DISASTER for humanity’

United States Geological Survey (USGS) warns that none of its instruments at Sawtell Peak station P361 are transmitting data.

U.S. would be history if Russia nukes Yellowstone volcano 

VANUATU:  3 active lava lakes in Ambrym volcano

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: “TOASTING 90% OF LIFE ON THE PLANET”

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: INDONESIA, MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

Pacific Ring of Fire: Indonesia, Modern Day Atlantis

03OCT2018 (02:03 UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Mehr 1397/22 Muharram 1440/24 Ren-Xu 4716

Indonesia, the island country trying to recover from a tsunami caused by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, just got hit by the volcanic eruption of Mount Soputan.

Express: Volcano ERUPTS in Indonesia just days after tsunami and earthquake

New York Times: What Went Wrong With Indonesia’s Tsunami Early Warning System

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Indonesia tsunami early detection buoys haven’t worked for six years

Yahoo News: Death toll nears 1400

SBS: Liquefaction blamed

Video shows liquefaction, it is not the tsunami, it is literally the ground turning liquid:

Sky News: Lack of government response

Reuters: “guardian angel” died in Indonesia quake

https://youtu.be/qsRfyAtwL6c

September: Mount Anak erupts, again

August: Lombok 6.9 earthquake

July thru August: Earthquake swarm; 6.4, 7.0, 5.9 and another 6.4

July: Mount Anak erupts

June: Mount Agung erupts

Mount Merapi erupts, again

May: Mount Merapi erupts

April: Mount Sinabung erupts, again

February: Mount Sinabung erupts

Video report from Wall Street Journal 2017:

The original story of Atlantis wasn’t just about a natural disaster, it was about human ignorance and arrogance due to the false belief that their technologies could save them from the ‘wrath of the gods’, as well as their immorality caused by their wealth, and never ending wars in order to create more wealth to support their addiction to technology.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: “TOASTING 90% OF LIFE ON THE PLANET”, DRAGON EGGS WILL SAVE US?

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: JAPAN, MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

Pacific Ring of Fire: “toasting 90% of life on the planet”, Dragon Eggs will save us?

Volcano eruptions to be predicted by remarkable DRAGON EGGS?

Incomplete list of reports from 24AUG2018 through to 23SEP2018.

19 Quakes Rock Ring of Fire in 24 Hours

Last month 70 earthquake in 48 hours along Pacific Ring of Fire

AUSTRALIA:  an eruption in Melbourne? 

CANADA:

British Columbia; 3.3-magnitude earthquake felt by Victoria residents

Strong early-morning Oregon quake felt in Vancouver and Sidney

Receding glaciers make Pemberton-area Mount Meager volcano less stable than ever before

British Columbia’s 18 Sleeping Volcanoes

CHILE: Volcano lights up snowy sky in stunning photo

COLUMBIA: 

Mass casualty earthquake training as part of the multilateral exercise Angel de los Andes, 06SEP2018, at German Olano Air Base.

ECUADOR: Strong quake hits 

FIJI: Very strong deep quake

GUATEMALA: 

U.S. Marines work with the Guatemalan Army Corps of Engineers to build temporary shelters for people fleeing Volcan De Fuego, 11SEP2018.

INDONESIA: VIDEO: Indonesian volcano spews enormous fireballs

Deadly ‘Child of Krakatau’ Volcano Erupts 56 Times

JAPAN: MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

Nearly 1,000 public school buildings in Japan still vulnerable to earthquakes

U.S. Marines, and their families, take part in disaster training at Iwakuni, 25AUG2018.

Video report, Iwakuni disaster prep: 

KOREA: Kim, Moon raise hands on North Korea’s sacred volcano

MEXICO: Popocatépetl volcano erupts twice – video

5.4 magnitude tremor hits near holiday hotspot

Earthquakes Continue in Oaxaca

 NEW CALEDONIA: 7.1M quake Southeast of the Loyalty Islands

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: volcano erupts, forcing villagers to flee

RUSSIA: Biggest mass extinction event caused by Siberian super volcano “Million-year eruptions killed ozone layer, toasting 90% of life on the planet” (not human made pollution)

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; volcano restless again; scientists issue aviation advisory

California;

USMC Combat Logistics deployed vehicles and equipment to Los Angeles, as part of Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief Village demonstration, 29AUG2018.

Strange and unpredicted behavior behind mysterious California earthquakes

6.5 magnitude quake off coast

‘Deep creep’ found near San Andreas fault

A Mysterious Hole Appeared on Mount Shasta!

88-thousand tons of nuke waste in path of future tsunami!

Fearing massive earthquake, California considers requiring lists of buildings that WILL collapse

In Quake-Prone California, Alarm at Scant Insurance Coverage

Hawaii; Will this summer’s limited collapse of Kilauea caldera eventually widen?

Oregon; Civil Air Patrol preps for ‘The Big One’ 

‘Get Ready Coos Bay’ emergency Cascadia prep event

From July; Cascadia Airlift Exercise 2018: “It’s a two-in-one exercise. The main objective is to be able to host airlift-centered planes during a humanitarian response to the Cascadia earthquake and identify limiting factors in being able to properly manage them. We also had the added benefit of being able to have the C-130s and F-15Cs fly together.”– Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Wright, 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard

Washington:

Olympic Ambulance, Bremerton Fire Department and Central Kitsap Fire Rescue stand by following a mock earthquake at Naval Hospital Bremerton, during the Citadel Rumble drill, the first week of September 2018.

Lessons learned from 2011 Japan tsunami could benefit Westport “I believe this is the first time any disaster recovery planners from Japan have visited the coast of Washington to share information about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck their country.”

Help after Cascadia earthquake could take weeks, ‘if not months’

Glacier Peak eruption: ‘HIGH THREAT’ volcano is more DANGEROUS than Yellowstone

Crustal inheritance and a top-down control on arc magmatism at Mount Saint Helens (a scientific explanation of why Mount Saint Helens shouldn’t be in Washington, but is)

The coming Cascadia subduction event

New maps project tsunamis hitting Port Angeles, Port Townsend

In August, the Washington Army National Guard/Washington Emergency Management Division and Malaysia Armed Forces/National Disaster Management Agency agreed to work together on Pacific Ring of Fire disasters: “We want to not only build stronger partnerships, military to military, but expand civilian partnerships as well. Part of the long-term success will include emergency management.”-Major General Bret Daugherty

Ocosta School District turning their new school into a Cascadia Event tsunami evacuation structure, as Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe gets 2.2-million taxpayer dollars to create vertical evacuation shelter

Wyoming; SCIENTISTS GROWING CONCERNED OVER YELLOWSTONE ACTIVITY

Ear Spring on Yellowstone’s Geyser Hill erupts for only the fourth time in 60 years

New thermal activity reported in Yellowstone

102 tremors STRIKE

“THE reawakening of Yellowstone volcano would be devastating for the United States as an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the U.S. would be destroyed. But can scientists predict when Yellowstone will erupt?”

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: 11-THOUSAND QUAKES SINCE JULY, GET READY FOR A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER!

April 2018: IDAHO MILITIA PREPS FIREFIGHTERS FOR COMING NATURAL DISASTERS!

Grand Teton seismic anomaly shuts down popular hiking trail!

11JUL2018 (01:52 UTC-07 Tango 06)  20 Tir 1397/27 Shawwal 1439/28 Ji-Wei 4716

Park Superintendent David Vela, at Grand Teton National Park in the western U.S. state of Wyoming, shutdown a popular hiking trail due to sudden “expanding cracks and fissures in a large rock formation”.

The Hidden Falls Area Trails and Inspiration Point are temporarily closed “until we can properly assess the situation.”  Park rangers say “noticeable” cracks suddenly appeared in overhanging boulders within a 24 hours period!

Employees with Exum Mountain Guides were forced to move their training operation to a new location.  However, nearby Jenny Lake Boating tours will continue.

Wyoming is also home to the supervolcano known as Yellowstone.

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: VOLCANOES TRUE CAUSE OF ARCTIC ICE MELT! SUNSCREEN TRUE CAUSE OF CORAL REEF DIE OFF?

Pacific Ring of Fire: Volcanoes true cause of arctic ice melt! Sunscreen true cause of coral reef die off?

08JUL2018 /21:55 UTC-07 Tango 06  (18 Tir 1397/25 Shawwal 1439/26 Ji-Wei 4716)

More proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change for coral reef deaths:  In November 2015 the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned Skincare Chemical Threatens Coral Reefs.

Time.com, in 2015, said Sunscreen Killing Reefs.

In February 2018, the Sweden based International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) revealed the impacts of sunscreens on coral reefs.

In April 2018 National Geographic reported Sunscreen, Clothing, And Other Coral Reef-Safe Alternatives.

At the end of June, 2018, Mother Nature News said Why your sunscreen is bad for coral reefs.

And for more proof you can’t blame man made air pollution on Global Warming-Climate Change glacier melt-off, recent discoveries reveal that polar ice sheets are actually melting due to volcanic activity. In August 2017 The Guardian reported Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet.

In October 2017 The Weather Channel reported Volcanic Eruptions May Be Rapidly Melting Arctic Ice Sheets.

In June 2018, the Independent reported Active volcano discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet could be contributing to rapidly melting glacier.

Now onto the most recent volcanic/seismic activity around the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Which Ring of Fire Volcano is next to blow?

A group of microbes found in a highly acidic, hot, mineral-rich volcanic lake in Central America may give us clues about life on ancient Mars.

Volcanoes from Space: 50 Breathtaking Astronaut and Satellite Photos

Latin America’s Top Most Dangerous Volcanoes

Volcanic activity worldwide 8 Jul 2018

CANADA: Seismologist warns peers to be careful about what they tell the news media!

Red flag over tsunami warning system

expected powerful earthquake with thousands of victims

CHILE: Minor earthquake – Antofagasta

Volcanic complex in Chile’s south could erupt within days

ECUADOR: Mag. 3.8 earthquake – NEAR COAST OF ECUADOR

Galapagos’ Sierra Negra volcano eruption triggers evacuation

Reventador ash and eruption

GUATEMALA: Survivors of deadly Fuego Volcano begging United States for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

Are the Central American Volcanoes Waking Up?

INDONESIA: Krakatau erupts

Ritual sacrifice draws crowds to Indonesia volcano

Moderate earthquake – Southern Sumatra

Third earthquake in 2018 in Lebak: Is Jakarta ready for megathrust quake?

Dukono spews ash

Earthquake jolts Indonesia’s Bali after Mount Agung erupts

JAPAN: Strong 6.0 earthquake rocks Tokyo

Government Map Forecasts Likely Future Japanese Earthquakes

Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Tokyo, eruption of Ebeko

Shinmoedake volcano erupts

Death toll climbs after 6.1 temblor strikes Osaka

MEXICO: Moderate earthquake – Off Coast Of Chiapas

Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes off Jalisco coast

NEW ZEALAND:  Taranaki probably the volcano most at risk of large eruption

A Māori view of the rising volcanic activity

PERU: Sabancaya Volcanic Ash Advisory

Moderate earthquake – Central Peru

RUSSIA: Earthquake HITS volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula

Mag. 5.1 earthquake – Southeastern Siberia

Video, Russian ice lava:

UNITED STATES:  The U.S. has over 160 active volcanoes. 

Alaska: Volcano Mount Cleveland Could Erupt Soon

California: 4.6 earthquake shakes California-Nevada state line

Earthquake Rattles San Bernardino County

Beyond lava and ash: Stanford geologists explain what makes volcanoes dangerous

Geologists detail likely site of San Andreas Fault’s next major quake

Scientists Fear ‘Slow Earthquakes’ Will Lead To The Next Big California Quake

Salton Sea Could be Ground Zero for Next Big California Earthquake

A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings

Hawaii:  In July, Hawaii became first U.S. state to ban sunscreen.

Scientists defy ‘force of nature’ to unlock secrets of Hawaii volcano

Volcanoes and DNA

Volcano evacuees suffering ‘shelter fatigue’

American Land in Pacific Grows Bigger

Idaho: Yet more unexplained Minor earthquakes in Soda Springs

Nevada: 3rd most earthquake-active state in U.S.

Oregon: Earthquake Simulation Reveals Dangers

City mayor doubts Oregon State University computer Cascadia Event models

Cascadia Event training, Warrenton, Oregon, June 2018

Despite doubts by a city mayor, Oregon’s National Guard conducted a small Cascadia Event exercise during June. Dubbed Pathfinder-Minuteman refresher training it revealed that the biggest problem for emergency responders is communication between different groups: “The biggest part of all of this training is team communication. I watched other teams struggle because of communication issues…”-Allison Journey, volunteer taking part in the training for the first time

Small earthquake off  coast becomes fifth to strike since April

Earthquake alert funding and southern Oregon

Washington: Yet another Cascadia Event FEMA drill planned, including Idaho and Oregon 

Tsunami from Cascadia Event would reach Bellingham in 90 minutes!

Future 9.0 Cascadia Event could produce 5.5-meter (18 feet) deep tsunami

Skagit County gets new maps for tsunami planning

Wyoming: Strange things are happening here

Canadians who walked on Yellowstone hot spring die

Yellowstone’s normally dormant Steamboat Geyser erupts 11th time in 2018

After first poo-pooing eruptions, scientists are finally concerned over Steamboat Geyser’s sudden re-awakening

Yellowstone’s magma chamber is more powerful than we knew

Yellowstone super-volcano warning as heat build-up stronger than first reported

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: ACTIVITY STRIKES IDAHO? VOLCANOES JUST DESTROYED ALL HUMAN ATTEMPTS TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE! GET READY FOR CASCADIA!

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: SEISMOLOGIST SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD PREPARE FOR QUAKE THAT WILL LAST AN HOUR AND CREATE DAYS OF TSUNAMIS!

Pacific Ring of Fire activity strikes Idaho? Volcanoes just destroyed all human attempts to stop climate change! Get ready for Cascadia!

26JAN2018 (13:09 UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Bahman 1396/09 Jumada l-Ula 1439/10 Xin-Chou (12th month) 4715

“We remain on red alert… …gearing up for three months…”-Romina Marasigan, government disaster agency worker

For awhile now I’ve been suspecting that the ongoing earthquakes in southeastern Idaho could be the result of secretive fracking operations by the petroleum industry.  But this time it might be due to a sudden increase in activity around the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Here’s the rundown:

During the second week of January 2018, Mount Mayon in Philippines begins small eruptions and lava flows, then on 23JAN2018 it begins large eruptions. 25JAN2018, massive lava flows begin, eruptions continue.  Now at least 81-thousand people forced to evacuate, and told eruptions could last three months! 

18JAN2018Big Waves, Flooding Batter Oregon And Washington Coasts

23JAN2018, in Japan, northwest of Tokyo, a volcano (Mount Kusatsu-Shirane) suddenly erupts. Cell phone video shows the eruption occurred in a new area not associated with the volcano, on the slopes of a ski resort.  One soldier killed while taking part in ski training, 11 people injured.

23JAN2018, magnitude 7.9 quake strikes off the southern coast of Alaska. 

25JAN2018, magnitude 5.8 quake strikes off the coast of northern California. 

25JAN2018, the Soda Springs area of the inland state of Idaho hit with numerous 3 and 4 magnitude quakes (again).  

One volcano can destroy all human attempts at curbing human caused air pollution, so stop trying to waste your taxpayer funding on trying to stop climate change.  But volcanoes cause Ice Ages, not global warming, so mister-almost-was-president-of-the-U.S.-if-he-hadn’t-of-given-in-to-George-Bush-Jr-threats Al Gore, it looks like Mother Earth is taking care of ‘global warming’!

livescience: Research Shows Volcanic CO2 Levels Are Staggering

Oregon Field Guide warns of massive earthquake-tsunami Cascadia Event:

https://youtu.be/-n6FxBNNOC4

“Idaho’s participation helped raise awareness that the residual effects of an earthquake and tsunami along the coast would be felt in Idaho. That includes the possible need to accommodate tens of thousands of evacuees and displaced persons who were directly impacted.”Federal Emergency Management Agency, June 2017

By the way, FEMA designates inland Idaho as the refugee destination for the expected massive Cascadia Event, which new computer models suggest will wipe out half of Oregon and Washington.  Idaho’s population will suddenly explode by “tens of thousands” of people (maybe that’s why our exalted, and secretive, leaders keep talking about a huge future boost in population?)!  But wait, if Yellowstone goes off then we all get wiped out!

Statesman Journal, 25JAN2018: Oregon unprepared for major disaster

“IT SHOOK MY ENTIRE HOUSE!” EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY AS MORE MINOR QUAKES HIT IDAHO!

FRACKING QUAKE SWARM HITS EAST IDAHO?

patch.com: Risk Of Cascadia Quake Elevated

washington.edu: 50 simulations of the ‘Really Big One’ show how a 9.0 Cascadia earthquake could play out

JAPAN FOOD CRISIS: WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?

GLOBAL WARMING ON EARTH STARTED 20-THOUSAND YEARS AGO!

YELLOWSTONE SUPER VOLCANO MORE MASSIVE THAN FIRST THOUGHT!

Seattle Times:  Nearly 6,000 emergency, military personnel conduct biggest ever ‘Cascadia Rising’ exercise

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE: JAPAN HIT WITH RECORD NUMBER OF QUAKES IN 2012 (NOT COUNTING 2011), ALREADY BIG START TO 2013!

WHY IS FEMA RUNNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PSA SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE 1989 LOMA PRIETA QUAKE?  Blame the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

GLOBAL WARMING, ICE AGE? U.S. STUDY SAYS ICE AGE CAUSED BY PARTICULATE MATTER. JAPAN STUDY SHOWS WARMING STARTS INSIDE THE EARTH. TROPICAL VIETNAM HITS 25 FAHRENHEIT!!!

Yellowstone super volcano more massive than first thought!

24 April 2015 (10:54 UTC-07 Tango 01)/04 Ordibehesht 1394/05 Rajab 1436/06 Geng Chen (3rd month) 4713

“In a big eruption, Yellowstone would eject 1,000 times as much material as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. This would be a disaster felt on a global scale….”Scientists find missing link in Yellowstone plumbing

“The Yellowstone supervolcano is one of the largest active continental silicic volcanic fields in the world……Using a joint local and teleseismic earthquake P-wave seismic inversion, we unveil a basaltic lower-crustal magma body that provides a magmatic link between the Yellowstone mantle plume and the previously imaged upper-crustal magma reservoir. This lower-crustal magma body has a volume of 46,000 km3, ~4.5 times larger than the upper-crustal magma reservoir, and contains a melt fraction of ~2%. These estimates are critical…..”The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust 

The discovery that the supervolcano known as Yellowstone National Park is far bigger than first thought  comes as U.S. National Park administrators reported that 2014’s park attendance resulted in $543.7-million USD for the local economy.

According to National Geographic, Yellowstone National Park records “1,000-3,000 earthquakes annually.”

Recently 6th graders from West Yellowstone wrote comments about their week long field trip to the National Park.  Apparently one thing that wasn’t discussed with the children was that they were sitting on Mother Nature’s Super Atomic Bomb.

Recent local news reports talked about the threat of drought to the National Park, as well as invasive aquatic animals being inadvertently brought in on boats.

Unexplained & increasing Idaho earthquakes caused by Fracking? 

Homeland Security behind False Flag earthquake drill in Idaho? Real quake hits!

Yellowstone Magma expanding?

Continued mine collaspe could be due to increased seismic activity in Idaho. 

Preparing for Disaster

Pacific Ring of Fire: Alaska volcano threatens air traffic

The Colorado volcano in Alaska is erupting, something that was predicted back in July.  Scientists think the eruptions could get bigger, based on satellite images.

The volcano is on an island (part of the Aleutian Islands) and doesn’t threaten people, but, because it’s thought the volcano’s eruptions could get bigger, it poses a threat to air traffic.

Scientists are so worried about a major eruption that they’ve ruled out flying to the island for closer inspection.

The volcano has frequent minor eruptions.  The last big eruption was in 2001, when the lava flows made it to he ocean.

 

Pacific Ring of Fire: 3rd volcano erupts on Indonesian island

For the third time this year, a volcano is erupting in Indonesia.  This time it’s the Mount Lokon volcano, on the same island as two other volcanoes; Sulawesi island.

This time at least 4,600 people were forced to evacuate.  In March, Mount Karangetang erupted, then on July 3 Mount Soputan erupted.  Mount Lokon, Soputan and Karangetang are all on the Sulawesi island chain.

The last time Mount Lokon erupted was in 1991.

Pacific Ring of Fire: Second Indonesian volcano erupts

On July 3, Indonesia’s Mount Soputan, on the Sulawesi island chain, erupted.   An ash cloud went 5,000 meters (16,404 feet) high.  An evacuation zone of 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) was ordered.

This is the second Indonesian volcano to erupt this year. In March, Mount Karangetang, also on the Sulawesi island chain, spewed lava and gas clouds, forcing thousands to evacuate.