Volcanoes and Penguins
Busy day for volcano news! A crack has opened in Etna's flank.
Mount Etna live.
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Anak erupting yesterday. You can see the light grey of the pyroclastic surge moving across the water, although it seems to have largely run out of momentum already only a few hundred metres from the shore. Regardless, that's kind of an ominous sight considering the history of the volcano. In 1883, the seaside town of Ketimbang was incinerated by a flow that ran 25 miles across the ocean, and still hit so hard that it ran up into the mountains several miles inland.
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Horses killed at Pompeii. It undoubtedly marks me as a bad person that I'm a lot more squeamish thinking about them than about the people just killed by Anak. So it goes, though.
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If you like volcanoes, and you like Penguins...
Original posted at https://rain-gryphon.dreamwidth.org/65918.html
Mount Etna live.
*****
Anak erupting yesterday. You can see the light grey of the pyroclastic surge moving across the water, although it seems to have largely run out of momentum already only a few hundred metres from the shore. Regardless, that's kind of an ominous sight considering the history of the volcano. In 1883, the seaside town of Ketimbang was incinerated by a flow that ran 25 miles across the ocean, and still hit so hard that it ran up into the mountains several miles inland.
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Horses killed at Pompeii. It undoubtedly marks me as a bad person that I'm a lot more squeamish thinking about them than about the people just killed by Anak. So it goes, though.
*****
If you like volcanoes, and you like Penguins...
Original posted at https://rain-gryphon.dreamwidth.org/65918.html