UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND VOLCANOLOGIST DISCOVERS LOST KINGDOM OF TAMBORA

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 27, 2006 ;     738 words ......news release: The eruption of Mount Tambora on the Indonesian...largest volcanic eruption in human history...tiny kingdom of Tambora. After 20 years...ash.) During the eruption, Mount Tambora ejected up to 100...visit to Mount Tambora in 1986 with URI...the size of the ...

Disaster goes global: the eruption in 1600 of a seemingly quiet volcano in...

Science News;  August 30, 2008 ;   Perkins, Sid;   787 words ......110). The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo...degrees Celsius. The eruption of Indonesia's Tambora in 1815 triggered...summer. While many eruptions in historic times...previously only Tambora had been linked...they were when Tambora blew its top. So...massive volcanic eruption. ...

Mayon eruption no threat to life

Filipino Reporter;  March 2, 2000 ;     787 words ...Filipino Reporter 03-02-2000 Mayon eruption no threat to life After eight months...said there was no reason to panic as the eruption was generally mild and not life-threatening...in fact, just observe and enjoy the eruption from a distance," Punongbayan said in...

Eruption on U.S. island shows warning system's flaws

Charleston Gazette;  May 19, 2003 ;   David Briscoe;   507 words ......Northern Mariana Islands - A volcanic eruption on a little- known American island now...Northern Marianas with little fear of eruption because they have been so rare. Even after the eruption a week ago on the tiny island of Anatahan...

A bronze-age burial; Archaeology.(An old eruption of Vesuvius)

The Economist (US);  March 11, 2006 ;     536 words ......warning. To the citizens of Pompeii, the eruption of Vesuvius was a deadly surprise. Earlier...dried up, but then one afternoon a huge eruption blotted out the sky and buried the city...happened to it is typical of a Vesuvian eruption. The discovery, a few years ago, of several...

VESUVIUS' NEXT ERUPTION MAY PUT METRO NAPLES AT RISK

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 6, 2006 ;     787 words ......evidence is shedding light on a catastrophic eruption at Mt. Vesuvius during the Bronze Age...surrounding areas than the famous Pompeii eruption of AD 79, according to a paper published...evidence that Vesuvius ever produced an eruption that strongly affected the area now occupied...

Eruption Warning Leads Filipinos to Flee Island

The Washington Post;  February 16, 1992 ;   Robert H. Reid;   297 words ......fissures indicated there could be an eruption within weeks. Scientists recorded 406...seismic activity "may culminate into an eruption within weeks." The volcano institute...a shortage of boats. In 1901, a Taal eruption killed 2,000 people and wiped out dozens...

Eruption on volcanic island in Pacific prompts hopes for better warning...

AP Worldstream;  May 18, 2003 ;   DAVID BRISCOE, Associated Press Writer;   507 words ......SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands A volcanic eruption on a little-known American island now...Northern Marianas with little fear of eruption because they have been so rare. Even after the eruption a week ago on the tiny island of Anatahan...

Dyke emplacement and related hazard in volcanoes with sector collapse: the...

Journal of the Geological Society;  September 1, 2008 ;   Neri, M; Lanzafame, G; Acocella, V;   787 words ......opened, releasing the excess magmatic pressure. The eruption continued, after a summit explosion, until April...Vent location is similar to that of the 2002-2003 eruption; that eruption was fed by dykes triggering landslides, which in...

eruption

The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus;      45 words ...eruption • noun   1. a volcanic eruption synonyms : discharge, ejection, emission; explosion.   2. an eruption of violence synonyms : outbreak, flare-up, upsurge, outburst, explosion; wave, spate...

Eruption puts focus on warning system; 70,000 live among the volcanic...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 19, 2003 ;   ASSOCIATED PRESS;   508 words ......Northern Mariana Islands (AP) - A volcanic eruption on a little-known American island now...Northern Marianas with little fear of eruption because they have been so rare. Even after the eruption a week ago on the tiny island of Anatahan...

Eruption 'imminent' at Mount St. Helens

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  October 3, 2004 ;   The Associated Press;   787 words ......St. Helens after its second steam eruption in two days was followed by a powerful tremor. They said the next eruption was imminent or in progress, and could...Level 3, which "indicates we feel an eruption is imminent, or is in progress," said...

Volcano eruption costs Ecuadorian farmers 150 million U.S. dollars

Xinhua News Agency;  August 19, 2006 ;     324 words ...Volcano eruption costs Ecuadorian farmers 150 million U.S. dollars QUITO, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The eruption of Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano has caused...animals incinerated following Thursday's eruption -- the volcano's fiercest since 1999...

Eruption flows east of Puu Oo

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  July 22, 2007 ;   Altonn, Helen;   199 words ...face=+Bold; Eruption in the Kilauea area ends a 15-year hiatusface...but were delayed until daybreak to view the eruption because of rain and fog from tropical depression Cosme. The eruption is occurring along a set of fissures extending...

OFFICIALS: DISEASE COULD FOLLOW ERUPTION

United Press International;  January 20, 2002 ;     263 words ......0000 Officials: Disease could follow eruption GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan...the city of Goma Sunday following the eruption of a nearby volcano, as U.N. officials...outbreak followed Mount Nyiragongo's eruption in 1977. Both of the city's water treatment...