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To: Neeka who wrote (165027)	7/22/2008 2:09:50 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Just one volcano spews more carbon into the atmosphere than anything man on earth could do in a century or two....And look at how many are currently going off world wide, including these as well as the well known ones.... But either Gore is too dumb not to notice, or by not mentioning these volcanos' he thinks he can add to the "GW scare".... At a minimum, activity at Okmok is likely to continue for days or weeks. Strong gas-driven explosions can produce rock ballistics or larger volcanic debris that can be hurled beyond the crater rim of the volcanic caldera, potentially landing in surrounding areas several miles away. Fast moving clouds of ash, larger debris, and hot gas can form and flow across the caldera floor, rise up over the caldera wall and continue to flow down Okmok's flanks. Rain mixed with ash could create mudflows and rapid flooding along island drainages. As soon as conditions allow, AVO scientists will travel to the volcano in order to document and understand the sudden onset of explosive activity and repair damage to monitoring equipment. The Okmok caldera formed during catastrophic eruptions 12,000 and 2,000 years ago. There are about a dozen cones within the modern caldera that formed in the last 2000 years, and the most recent eruptive activity occurred in 1945, 1958 and 1997. One violent eruption of Okmok in 1817 produced many feet of ash and "scoria" rock debris on the northeastern caldera rim, as well as ash fall on Unalaska Island and floods that buried an Aleut village at Cape Tanak on the northeast Bering Sea Coast of Umnak Island sciencedaily.com Related Stories ________________________________________ Kamchatka Volcano Blows Its Top (July 5, 2007) — Klyuchevskoy, a stratovolcano located in the north central region of the Kamchatka Peninsula, is blasting ash up to 32,000 feet in the air, and has diverted air traffic headed toward the Far East. ... > read more Instruments On Alaska's Augustine Volcano Provide New Insights Into Volcanic Processes (Feb. 19, 2006) — As Alaska's Augustine Volcano erupts and sends a plume of ash more than 40,000 feet into the air, instruments on the ground are recording rumblings at the volcano's surface. The data collected will ... > read more Researchers Find Volcanoes Are Bad For Your Health ... Long After They Finish Erupting (Feb. 7, 2000) — Volcanoes can be bad for your health long after they have finished erupting. A research team studying the aftermath of the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat, which included Professor Ray Dupree ... > read more Kilauea Volcano Erupts E xplosively And Vents Noxious Gas (Mar. 29, 2008) — Explosive eruptions and noxious gas emissions at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii this week have prompted scientists to work around the clock to understand what will happen next. Scientists are monitoring ... > read more Mount St. Helens Officially Slumbers -- Alert Level Goes Back To Normal (July 17, 2008) — Scientists say the nearly three and a half years of eruption at Mount St. Helens is over for now and have lowered the volcano alert level from Advisory to Normal and the aviation color code from ... > read more