Mayon Volcano Expected To Blow

Pyroclastic flows from Mayon 1984

Active Philippines Volcano Could Erupt Within Days

The Philippines' most active volcano could erupt within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution.

Scientists raised the alert level for the Mayon volcano to one step below a major eruption after 453 volcanic earthquakes were detected in a five-hour span Sunday, compared to just over 200 Saturday, said Renato Solidum, chief of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

Army troops and police will intensify patrols to enforce a round-the-clock ban on villagers within a five-mile danger zone around the 8,070-foot mountain, said Gov. Joey Salceda of Albay province, about 210 miles southeast of Manila.

The massive evacuations were unfortunate, coming so close before Christmas, Salceda said, but authorities will find ways to bring holiday cheer to displaced villagers in emergency shelters.

The cone-shaped volcano has already belched a plume of grayish ash half a mile into the sky, and red-hot lava has flowed about 2.8 miles down the mountainside, he said.

Residents who briefly returned to their homes within the danger zone to check on their belongings reported hearing eerie rumbling sounds.

More than 40,000 villagers have been moved to school buildings and other emergency shelters, and they should be warned from venturing back now due to the extreme danger, volcanologist July Sabit said.

Superheated gas and volcanic debris can race down the slopes at very high speed, vaporizing everything in their path.

"It's extremely dangerous," Sabit told The Associated Press by telephone.

Residents are used to playing a "cat and mouse" game with Mayon, a popular tourist attraction because of its near-perfect cone shape.

Mayon last erupted in 2006, when about 30,000 people were moved. Another eruption in 1993 killed 79 people.

The first recorded eruption was in 1616 but 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 an iconic tourist spot.

The Philippines lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common. The Philippines has 22 active volcanoes.

Associated Press writer Jim Gomez contributed to this report from Manila.

Maybe we could get some people from the EPA(environmental protection agency)to go there and tell the volcano that all emissions like this are now being tightly regulated. As I have stated numerous times, "volcanos and their effects are what man needs to be worrying about, not, emissions that humans are making".

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Yellowstone Super-Volcano

Mayon Volcano Legazpi City, Philippines

Yellowstone Super-Volcano Far More Dangerous Than Previously Thought

The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone super-volcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup.

A related University of Utah study used gravity measurements to indicate the banana-shaped magma chamber of hot and molten rock a few miles beneath Yellowstone is 20 percent larger than previously believed, so a future cataclysmic eruption could be even larger than thought.

The study's of Yellowstone's plume also suggests the same "hotspot" that feeds Yellowstone volcanism also triggered the Columbia River "flood basalts" that buried parts of Oregon, Washington state and Idaho with lava starting 17 million years ago.

Those are key findings in four National Science Foundation-funded studies in the latest issue of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. The studies were led by Robert B. Smith, research professor and professor emeritus of geophysics at the University of Utah and coordinating scientist for the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

"We have a clear image, using seismic waves from earthquakes, showing a mantle plume that extends from beneath Yellowstone,'' Smith says.

The plume angles downward 150 miles to the west-northwest of Yellowstone and reaches a depth of at least 410 miles, Smith says. The study estimates the plume is mostly hot rock, with 1 percent to 2 percent molten rock in sponge-like voids within the hot rock.

by Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media

This is not exactly the kind of news You want to hear, however, it is fact! While governments are gathering and fighting amongst themselves about global warming/climate control, "volcanos" are what they need to be paying attention to. If a "super volcano" like Yellowstone, Toba, in Indonesia, Krakatoa, Mt Vesuvius, or Mt Fuji, just to name a few, decided to have a major blow, it's pretty much game over. It's not a matter of "if", it's just a matter of "when"!

Here are links to other recent volcanic news and facts. Mayon Volcano Forces Evacuations in Philippines - Sphere News http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16053/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=6OyvvmVa

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Before T Rex

Photo/Artwork by Jorge Gonzalez

New fossils shed light on evolution of dinosaurs

Newly described dinosaur fossils from New Mexico are helping scientists better understand the early development of these ancient creatures.

The 6-to-12 foot-long, meat-eating creature, Tawa hallae, is described in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

The first dinosaurs developed about 230 million years ago, and T. hallae skeletons date from about 213 million years ago, according to researchers led by Sterling J. Nesbitt of the University of Texas at Austin.

"Tawa gives us an unprecedented window into early dinosaur evolution, solidifying the relationships of early dinosaurs, revealing how they spread across the globe, and providing new insights into the evolution of their characteristics," Nesbitt said.

"This new dinosaur, Tawa hallae, changes our understanding of the relationships of early dinosaurs, and provides fantastic insight into the evolution of the skeleton of the first carnivorous dinosaurs" co-author Randall Irmis of the Utah Museum of Natural History, said in a statement.

While many of the earliest dinosaurs are known from only a few bones, the researchers found bones from five to seven skeletons of T. hallae, Nesbitt said in a briefing.

This dinosaur contains characteristics of several lineages that can help in understanding evolution of the various forms of dinosaurs, the scientists said.

It developed on the supercontinent Pangea, in which creatures could move from region to region before Pangea broke apart into the current continents.

Nesbitt added that the find may reinforce the idea that dinosaurs originated in what is now South America and then moved on to other regions.

T. hallae is an early form of theropod, from which the well known T. Rex later developed, as did modern birds.

Indeed, the new find had some hollow bones, as modern birds do, though it had other more lizardlike than birdlike characteristics, according to Nesbitt.

The new dinosaur is named for Tawa, the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god, and late amateur paleontologist Ruth Hall, whose collection of fossils helped found the Ruth Hall Museum at Ghost Ranch, where the quarry in which the bones were found is located.

Also at Ghost Ranch, the researchers found fossils from other carnivorous dinosaurs only distantly related to Tawa.

At the time of the research Nesbitt was affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In addition to Irmis, other researchers taking part were from the University of Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Stony Brook University in New York and the Ruth Hall Museum.

The part of this story that really interests me is, the section where they talk about some of the bones being hollow like in modern birds. It also had more lizard like qualities. I am still trying to connect the dots that will lead to dragons. The hollow bone, birdlike, lizard like, carnivore features are all relevent to, especially western, dragons. We are getting closer....

"The Truth Will Come",

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Earth Devastated By Volcano

Mt.Pinatubo, largest eruption since 1912. Half of 1% the size of The Toba eruption
Prehistoric Volcano Devastated Earth

A massive volcanic eruption that occurred in the distant past killed off much of central India's forests and may have pushed humans to the brink of extinction, according to a new study that adds evidence to a controversial topic.

The Toba eruption, which took place on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia about 73,000 years ago, released an estimated 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere that blanketed the skies and blocked out sunlight for six years. In the aftermath, global temperatures dropped by as much as 28 degrees Fahrenheit and life on Earth plunged deeper into an ice age that lasted around 1,800 years.

In 1998, Stanley Ambrose, an anthropology professor at the University of Illinois, proposed in the Journal of Human Evolution that the effects of the Toba eruption and the Ice Age that followed could explain the apparent bottleneck in human populations that geneticists believe occurred between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago. The lack of genetic diversity among humans alive today suggests that during this time period humans came very close to becoming extinct.

To test his theory, Ambrose and his research team analyzed pollen from a marine core in the Bay of Bengal that had a layer of ash from the Toba eruption. The researchers also compared carbon isotope ratios in fossil soil taken from directly above and below the Toba ash in three locations in central India — some 3,000 miles from the volcano — to pinpoint the type of vegetation that existed at various locations and time periods.

Heavily forested regions leave carbon isotope fingerprints that are distinct from those of grasses or grassy woodlands.

The tests revealed a distinct change in the type of vegetation in India immediately after the Toba eruption. The researchers write in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology that their analysis indicates a shift to a "more open vegetation cover and reduced representation of ferns," which grow in humid conditions, all of which "would suggest significantly drier conditions in this region for at least 1,000 years after the Toba eruption."

The dryness probably also indicates a drop in temperature "because when you turn down the temperature you also turn down the rainfall," Ambrose said. "This is unambiguous evidence that Toba caused deforestation in the tropics for a long time."

He also concluded that the disaster may have forced the ancestors of modern humans to adopt new cooperative strategies for survival that eventually permitted them to replace Neanderthals and other archaic human species.

Although humans survived the event, researchers have detected increasing activity underneath a caldera at Yellowstone National Park, where some suspect another supervolcanic eruption will eventually take place. Though not expected to occur anytime soon, a Yellowstone eruption could coat half the United States in a layer of ash up to 3 feet deep.

So, when are humans going to realize that going to Copenhagen for a "global climate" summit is a waste of time, money and resources? And why do the people on the street with a brain know this is an exercise in futility, yet, governments don't know this, OR, have hidden agendas and don't want to know. "We cannot fix something that we cannot break". Only the universe and the planet control what goes on with the Earth. When are these so called intelligent life forms(humans), going to figure this out and STOP perpetrating their fraud on the rest of us?

As I and others have been saying, "the planet is not going anywhere, however, we are, we're going away sooner than You may think".....

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