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Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption

 
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Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
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(CNN) -- Fountains of red-hot lava shot up from the intensifying Mayon volcano as the Philippines awaited an imminent eruption, the country's national news agency reported Tuesday.

Tens of thousands of people have already fled their homes. More than 9,000 families -- a total of 44,394 people -- are being housed in evacuation camps after authorities raised the alert status of the country's most active volcano, Albay Province Gov. Joey Salceda said.

The Philippine Institute on Volcanology and Seismology was considering ratcheting up the volcano alert to the highest level, which would mean an eruption was underway, the Philippine News Agency (PNA) reported.
But officials said not everyone is heeding their warnings -- some villagers were spotted within the danger zone checking on their homes and farms on the foothills of the volcano.

The government is trying to enforce a "no man's land" rule in the designated danger zone, with military and police instructed to double the personnel manning the nine checkpoints and double their foot patrol operation inside the restricted area, PNA reported.

"Mayon continued to show an intense level of activity during the past 24-hour observation period. Seismic activity remained elevated in number and size as the seismic network detected a total of 1,266 volcanic earthquakes," it said in a statement about the last 24 hours to 7 a.m. local time on Tuesday (6 p.m. ET on Monday).

People in surrounding Albay Province have flocked to town centers to catch a glimpse of glowing lava cascading down the slopes of Mayon since the mountain began oozing fiery lava and belching clouds of ash last week.
The volcano, located about 500 km (310 miles) south of the Philippine capital of Manila, has erupted 49 times since its first documented eruption in 1616.
The Philippines is situated in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Mayon's most violent eruption, in 1814, killed more than 1,200 people and devastated several towns. Its last major eruption was in 1993. Since then, it has remained restless, emitting ash and spewing lava.

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Imminent eruption
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12/22/2009 07:56 AM
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
VOLCANOES DON'T EXIST


"But officials said not everyone is heeding their warnings -- some villagers were spotted within the danger zone checking on their homes and farms on the foothills of the volcano."


APPARENTLY I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT VOLCANOES EXIST -- THOSE VILLAGERS AS WELL.


"The government is trying to enforce a "no man's land" rule in the designated danger zone, with military and police instructed to double the personnel manning the nine checkpoints and double their foot patrol operation inside the restricted area, PNA reported."


NO MAN'S LAND = NO WITNESSES TO FAKE ERUPTION & LAVA

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12/22/2009 07:58 AM
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
Isn't this eruption "imminent" for a week now?

Whats new here?

Why pin?
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12/22/2009 07:59 AM
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
beautiful mother nature at work..

tax her

gorebot
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
Isn't this eruption "imminent" for a week now?

Whats new here?

Why pin?
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Isn't this eruption "imminent" for a week now?

Whats new here?

Why pin?
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This is not new or something extraordinary fascinating. its just volcano that CAN erupt.
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Almost all of the 47,000 residents living on the slopes of a rumbling volcano in the central Philippines have moved to emergency shelters, and lava and earthquakes Tuesday heralded what officials say could be a major eruption.
Low clouds obscured visibility of the smoldering 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) Mayon, towering over coconut farms and rice paddies in coastal Albay province.
"Hazardous eruption ... can happen today or in the next few days," said chief state volcanologist Renato Solidum, adding that an eruption also may not happen. "Nobody has a 100 percent accuracy."
Ash columns were seen rising during a cloud break and Solidum said his team recorded 1,266 volcanic quakes in the last 24 hours, down from nearly 2,000 the previous day. He said that while the quakes were fewer, they were larger.
The emission of sulfur dioxide — an indication of magma rising inside the volcano — was measured at 6,530 tons per day, slightly less than 7,000 tons on Sunday, but still very high, Solidum said. The normal gas emission is 500 tons per day.
"Technically, Mayon volcano is already erupting because lava has oozed out," said Mahar Lagmay, professor of geological studies at the University of the Philippines. A bigger, explosive eruption is still possible but hard to predict, he said.
In the past week, more than 45,000 residents living in a five-mile (eight-kilometer) zone around Mayon have been transported in army trucks to school buildings and gymnasiums in and around the provincial capital of Legazpi, where they were given sleeping mats and food supplies to last them through Christmas holidays, said Jukes Nunez, a disaster management official.
Some of about 2,000 remaining farmers and their families living on the edge of the exclusion zone have already evacuated their homes three times but keep on returning to check on their livestock and vegetable farms, Nunez said.
Army troops and police were patrolling inside the danger zone to persuade the holdouts to move to a safe distance. Authorities said they were working on an evacuation center for farm animals.
Scientists have raised Mayon's alert level to one step below a hazardous eruption. The only higher level is when a major eruption is in progress. Red hot lava flows had reached three miles (five kilometers) from the crater accompanied by booming and rumbling sounds, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.
Experts fear a major eruption could trigger pyroclastic flows — superheated gas and volcanic debris that race down the slopes at high speeds, incinerating or vaporizing everything in their path. More extensive explosions of ash could drift toward nearby towns and cities, including Legazpi, about nine miles (15 kilometers) away.
In Mayon's other eruptions in recent years, pyroclastic flows had reached up to four miles (six kilometers) from the crater.
"The probability of survival in an eruption is zero if you're in the danger area. The solution is obviously distance," Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said.
Mayon has erupted nearly 40 times over 400 years. About 30,000 people were moved during the last eruption in 2006. An eruption in 1993 killed 79 people.
The first recorded eruption was in 1616; the most destructive came in 1814, killing more than 1,200 people and burying a town in volcanic mud. The ruins of the church in Cagsawa have become a tourist attraction.
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Mayon will erupt ... within 2 days.
Thus spake Nostrildemus.


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12/22/2009 09:32 AM
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beautiful mother nature at work..

tax her

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Cracks me up.
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
VOLCANOES DON'T EXIST


"But officials said not everyone is heeding their warnings -- some villagers were spotted within the danger zone checking on their homes and farms on the foothills of the volcano."


APPARENTLY I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT VOLCANOES EXIST -- THOSE VILLAGERS AS WELL.


"The government is trying to enforce a "no man's land" rule in the designated danger zone, with military and police instructed to double the personnel manning the nine checkpoints and double their foot patrol operation inside the restricted area, PNA reported."


NO MAN'S LAND = NO WITNESSES TO FAKE ERUPTION & LAVA

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ahh sweet doom at last dribble
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
living on the slopes of a rumbling volcano? That must be exciting! afro
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
This will not end well. You know I would probably not want to build my house next to a volcano. Just a suggestion.
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
Volcano slopes are very rich soil. Can grow anything you want.
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Grab the soil and take it with you to somewhere just outside the pyroclastic flow zone.
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as we say in Texas,

ITS FICKIN' TA !
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Grab the soil and take it with you to somewhere just outside the pyroclastic flow zone.
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all the way to Thailand eh?

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Take the soil and run, heh. It may be that the crops also benefit from the heat under a volcanic slope as well. Kind of a natural green house.
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What an opportunity for population reduction.

Just drop a bomb inside the thing and maybe the whole Island will sink into the sea.
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maybe art bell will give a update on C2C?
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What an opportunity for population reduction.

Just drop a bomb inside the thing and maybe the whole Island will sink into the sea.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 760960


what?

not the WHOLE Phillipines Island?
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Re: Lava shoots up from the Mayon volcano as the Philippines await an imminent eruption
VOLCANOES DON'T EXIST


"But officials said not everyone is heeding their warnings -- some villagers were spotted within the danger zone checking on their homes and farms on the foothills of the volcano."


APPARENTLY I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT VOLCANOES EXIST -- THOSE VILLAGERS AS WELL.


"The government is trying to enforce a "no man's land" rule in the designated danger zone, with military and police instructed to double the personnel manning the nine checkpoints and double their foot patrol operation inside the restricted area, PNA reported."


NO MAN'S LAND = NO WITNESSES TO FAKE ERUPTION & LAVA

bump bump
 Quoting: Annoying Coward

sbus
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gotbop
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This doom has been cancelled.
EAT had to go and comment on it.
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As so it (the eruption) begins...

Hope they get everyone out safely.

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woohoo When Manyon erupts there will be a giant spiral over it and a black triangle mother ship will appear in the smoke ltana
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Where are all the earhquakes?

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]
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any webcams on the volcano?





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