Gamalama alert level III/IV 5.4 magnitude and deep earthquake hits.

theyve had two volcano eruptions in last two days in indonesia havent they, seems very active atm.

Yes indonesia is really active now. Here is Gamalama activity history: [link to www.volcano.si.edu]

and you can see there have been lots of small eruptions. My point is that i have seen scientist report that there have been eruptions what have been make so big tsunami that there is no evidence. I think there is not much information about this volcano and this stitutation but what i have read it is posibble that whole island is huge volcano. Like krakatau was.

Anyway really scary volcano and now really active.

Last Edited by so-gui-li on 12/28/2011 02:36 PM

Hundreds of people flee as lava and mud stream from volcano, killing 4 in eastern Indonesia

Officials say mudflows streaming from a volcano in eastern Indonesia have killed four villagers and about 1,000 others have fled their homes.

Mount Gamalama in the Molucca Islands sprang to life this month with a powerful, non-fatal eruption....

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[link to www.washingtonpost.com]

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

4.8 earthquake. Mudflows are now main problem in this unstabile island. Its volcanic island wich rock is not so hard so this eruption together heavy rain causes massive mudflows. There is always danger also massive landslides or explosions. Alert level is III/IV.

Hmm, this thing looks scary. What are the odds of another major eruption like in 1775?


[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Well that eruption was VEI 3 if i remember right. Now eruption is quite small in this time but activity is rising. With heavy rain the damage is already same scale than what it was that time-



this is from monday and activity is rising and there is fatalies already.

Last Edited by so-gui-li on 12/30/2011 03:21 AM