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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Volcano, dormant for almost 100 years, erupts in 'spectacular' fashion
2019-06-28
[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

#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  

#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  

#8  Vulcan is displeased with humans
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-06-28 10:08  

#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  

#6  It's Trump's fault.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2019-06-28 08:52  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#1  Maybe those in/near Seattle will pop.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-28 02:48  

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