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Post by pgandy on May 30, 2023 13:57:53 GMT
One of our five volcanos, Rincón de la Vieja, blow its top sending debris 1 km high and is consider a phreatic. No injuries were reported.
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Post by nerdthenord on May 30, 2023 14:46:30 GMT
Oh wow, fascinating. Glad no injuries reported yet.
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Post by pgandy on Jun 7, 2023 0:44:06 GMT
Well, nerdthenord, not much news is forthcoming from that area. I little earlier this week I heard the show was still on. Tonight, the news said there have been four eruptions since midnight and some have been evacuated.
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Post by mrstabby on Jun 13, 2023 8:04:11 GMT
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Post by pgandy on Jun 13, 2023 12:29:14 GMT
We have numerous landslides annually due to the rains, some deadly, most not. They can block a road for days on end. One caught a bus last year, but I have forgotten the casualty rate. Fortunately, none to that magnitude, an entire mountain peak coming down.
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Post by mrstabby on Jun 13, 2023 13:09:29 GMT
Small rockfalls an mudslides happen often in the alps, in every mountainous area I bet. Fortunately nobody was hurt, even though a group of tourists was out there. This seemed to have come out of nowhere. There was another one in swizerland in 2011 on Piz Cengalo, a side peak broke off but they knew it would happen and were watching it. I wouldn't want a volcano instead though, or a forest fire. The damage of this was relatively small. The one thing they are worried about now is, that the whole mountain range seems to have new cracks in it and if such a mountain slide would hit a reservoir lake, we would have an inland tsunami sweeping through the vallies near it. I really hope this won't be the case.
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