Sudden Volcanic Eruption Leaves Dozens Stranded In Japan

[Billy_Bob]

Sain people wont be anywhere close when this thing decides to go boom.

By measuring seismic waves from earthquakes, scientists were able to map the magma chamber underneath the Yellowstone caldera as 55 miles long, lead author Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah said Monday.

The chamber is 18 miles wide and runs at depths from 3 to 9 miles below the earth, he added.

That means there is enough volcanic material below the surface to match the largest of the supervolcano's three eruptions over the last 2.1 million years, Farrell said.

The largest blast — the volcano's first — was 2,000 times the size of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state.[?quote]

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[Billy_Bob]

The article is a good one at the source.

You can actually see the mapped alcogon to the west towards oregon in this depiction from USGS.

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[Billy_Bob]

If you have questions about how devastating this could be look at this historical perspective showing the ash distribution over the Continent.

Some areas were covered 10' deep in ash. Nothing survives for some time and the magma chamber is now full... just food for thought...

 

[mamooth]

It's suspected the Japanese event was purely a steam explosion, with no magma involved. Moving magma always makes earthquakes, and there were no earthquakes.

For climate, it was insignificant. As eruptions go, it was a little burp. Unfortunately, a little burp will kill you if you're hiking on the volcano on a beautiful autumn day.

 

[elektra]

Nature burps a decades worth of CO2, not oxygen.

 

[Billy_Bob]

It's suspected the Japanese event was purely a steam explosion, with no magma involved. Moving magma always makes earthquakes, and there were no earthquakes.

For climate, it was insignificant. As eruptions go, it was a little burp. Unfortunately, a little burp will kill you if you're hiking on the volcano on a beautiful autumn day.

Do you know how to read? Do you know what hot magma looks like? Because the photos of the eruption show a hell of a lot more than just steam..

 

[Old Rocks]

Nature burps a decades worth of CO2, not oxygen.

You are so full of shit.

Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview

Do the Earth’s volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? Research findings indicate that the answer to this frequently asked question is a clear and unequivocal, “No.” Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et al., 2010), release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes (Gerlach, 2011).

The published estimates of the global CO2 emission rate for all degassing subaerial (on land) and submarine volcanoes lie in a range from 0.13 gigaton to 0.44 gigaton per year (Gerlach, 1991; Varekamp et al., 1992; Allard, 1992; Sano and Williams, 1996; Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998). The preferred global estimates of the authors of these studies range from about 0.15 to 0.26 gigaton per year. The 35-gigaton projected anthropogenic CO2 emission for 2010 is about 80 to 270 times larger than the respective maximum and minimum annual global volcanic CO2 emission estimates. It is 135 times larger than the highest preferred global volcanic CO2 estimate of 0.26 gigaton per year (Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998).

In recent times, about 70 volcanoes are normally active each year on the Earth’s subaerial terrain. One of these is Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, which has an annual baseline CO2 output of about 0.0031 gigatons per year [Gerlach et al., 2002]. It would take a huge addition of volcanoes to the subaerial landscape—the equivalent of an extra 11,200 Kīlauea volcanoes—to scale up the global volcanic CO2emission rate to the anthropogenic CO2 emission rate. Similarly, scaling up the volcanic rate to the current anthropogenic rate by adding more submarine volcanoes would require an addition of about 360 more mid-ocean ridge systems to the sea floor, based on mid-ocean ridge CO2 estimates of Marty and Tolstikhin (1998).

There continues to be efforts to reduce uncertainties and improve estimates of present-day global volcanic CO2 emissions, but there is little doubt among volcanic gas scientists that the anthropogenic CO2 emissions dwarf global volcanic CO2 emissions.

The vast amount of CO2 emitted by man compared to the insignificant amount by volcanos has been known for decades. That you are so damned stupid as to not do even minimal research reflects very poorly on your ethics and intelligence.

 

[Old Rocks]

It's suspected the Japanese event was purely a steam explosion, with no magma involved. Moving magma always makes earthquakes, and there were no earthquakes.

For climate, it was insignificant. As eruptions go, it was a little burp. Unfortunately, a little burp will kill you if you're hiking on the volcano on a beautiful autumn day.

Do you know how to read? Do you know what hot magma looks like? Because the photos of the eruption show a hell of a lot more than just steam..

A very small burp. Even St. Helens was quite small. Only about 1/4 of a cubic Kilometer of ash put into the air. Really large eruptions put 10's of cubic kilometers of ash into the air.

 

[Old Rocks]

The article is a good one at the source.

You can actually see the mapped alcogon to the west towards oregon in this depiction from USGS.

SOURCE

OK. What the hell is an 'alcogon'?

 

[elektra]

Nature burps a decades worth of CO2, not oxygen.

You are so full of shit.

Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview

Do the Earth’s volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? Research findings indicate that the answer to this frequently asked question is a clear and unequivocal, “No.” Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et al., 2010), release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes (Gerlach, 2011).

The published estimates of the global CO2 emission rate for all degassing subaerial (on land) and submarine volcanoes lie in a range from 0.13 gigaton to 0.44 gigaton per year (Gerlach, 1991; Varekamp et al., 1992; Allard, 1992; Sano and Williams, 1996; Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998). The preferred global estimates of the authors of these studies range from about 0.15 to 0.26 gigaton per year. The 35-gigaton projected anthropogenic CO2 emission for 2010 is about 80 to 270 times larger than the respective maximum and minimum annual global volcanic CO2 emission estimates. It is 135 times larger than the highest preferred global volcanic CO2 estimate of 0.26 gigaton per year (Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998).

In recent times, about 70 volcanoes are normally active each year on the Earth’s subaerial terrain. One of these is Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, which has an annual baseline CO2 output of about 0.0031 gigatons per year [Gerlach et al., 2002]. It would take a huge addition of volcanoes to the subaerial landscape—the equivalent of an extra 11,200 Kīlauea volcanoes—to scale up the global volcanic CO2emission rate to the anthropogenic CO2 emission rate. Similarly, scaling up the volcanic rate to the current anthropogenic rate by adding more submarine volcanoes would require an addition of about 360 more mid-ocean ridge systems to the sea floor, based on mid-ocean ridge CO2 estimates of Marty and Tolstikhin (1998).

There continues to be efforts to reduce uncertainties and improve estimates of present-day global volcanic CO2 emissions, but there is little doubt among volcanic gas scientists that the anthropogenic CO2 emissions dwarf global volcanic CO2 emissions.

The vast amount of CO2 emitted by man compared to the insignificant amount by volcanos has been known for decades. That you are so damned stupid as to not do even minimal research reflects very poorly on your ethics and intelligence.

Talk about dumb, one volcano just burped CO2 all over your silly theories

now let's talk about how you do not know the difference between affect and effect.

True idiot you are old crock..

 

[Old Rocks]

Nature burps a decades worth of CO2, not oxygen.

You are so full of shit.

Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview

Do the Earth’s volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? Research findings indicate that the answer to this frequently asked question is a clear and unequivocal, “No.” Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et al., 2010), release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes (Gerlach, 2011).

The published estimates of the global CO2 emission rate for all degassing subaerial (on land) and submarine volcanoes lie in a range from 0.13 gigaton to 0.44 gigaton per year (Gerlach, 1991; Varekamp et al., 1992; Allard, 1992; Sano and Williams, 1996; Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998). The preferred global estimates of the authors of these studies range from about 0.15 to 0.26 gigaton per year. The 35-gigaton projected anthropogenic CO2 emission for 2010 is about 80 to 270 times larger than the respective maximum and minimum annual global volcanic CO2 emission estimates. It is 135 times larger than the highest preferred global volcanic CO2 estimate of 0.26 gigaton per year (Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998).

In recent times, about 70 volcanoes are normally active each year on the Earth’s subaerial terrain. One of these is Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, which has an annual baseline CO2 output of about 0.0031 gigatons per year [Gerlach et al., 2002]. It would take a huge addition of volcanoes to the subaerial landscape—the equivalent of an extra 11,200 Kīlauea volcanoes—to scale up the global volcanic CO2emission rate to the anthropogenic CO2 emission rate. Similarly, scaling up the volcanic rate to the current anthropogenic rate by adding more submarine volcanoes would require an addition of about 360 more mid-ocean ridge systems to the sea floor, based on mid-ocean ridge CO2 estimates of Marty and Tolstikhin (1998).

There continues to be efforts to reduce uncertainties and improve estimates of present-day global volcanic CO2 emissions, but there is little doubt among volcanic gas scientists that the anthropogenic CO2 emissions dwarf global volcanic CO2 emissions.

The vast amount of CO2 emitted by man compared to the insignificant amount by volcanos has been known for decades. That you are so damned stupid as to not do even minimal research reflects very poorly on your ethics and intelligence.

Talk about dumb, one volcano just burped CO2 all over your silly theories

now let's talk about how you do not know the difference between affect and effect.

True idiot you are old crock..

So, you know more than the geologist, the geo-physicists, and volcanologists at the USGS? Egad, you know nothing morons are getting worse every day in your stupid claims.

 

[elektra]

Nature burps a decades worth of CO2, not oxygen.

You are so full of shit.

Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview

Do the Earth’s volcanoes emit more CO2 than human activities? Research findings indicate that the answer to this frequently asked question is a clear and unequivocal, “No.” Human activities, responsible for a projected 35 billion metric tons (gigatons) of CO2 emissions in 2010 (Friedlingstein et al., 2010), release an amount of CO2 that dwarfs the annual CO2 emissions of all the world’s degassing subaerial and submarine volcanoes (Gerlach, 2011).

The published estimates of the global CO2 emission rate for all degassing subaerial (on land) and submarine volcanoes lie in a range from 0.13 gigaton to 0.44 gigaton per year (Gerlach, 1991; Varekamp et al., 1992; Allard, 1992; Sano and Williams, 1996; Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998). The preferred global estimates of the authors of these studies range from about 0.15 to 0.26 gigaton per year. The 35-gigaton projected anthropogenic CO2 emission for 2010 is about 80 to 270 times larger than the respective maximum and minimum annual global volcanic CO2 emission estimates. It is 135 times larger than the highest preferred global volcanic CO2 estimate of 0.26 gigaton per year (Marty and Tolstikhin, 1998).

In recent times, about 70 volcanoes are normally active each year on the Earth’s subaerial terrain. One of these is Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, which has an annual baseline CO2 output of about 0.0031 gigatons per year [Gerlach et al., 2002]. It would take a huge addition of volcanoes to the subaerial landscape—the equivalent of an extra 11,200 Kīlauea volcanoes—to scale up the global volcanic CO2emission rate to the anthropogenic CO2 emission rate. Similarly, scaling up the volcanic rate to the current anthropogenic rate by adding more submarine volcanoes would require an addition of about 360 more mid-ocean ridge systems to the sea floor, based on mid-ocean ridge CO2 estimates of Marty and Tolstikhin (1998).

There continues to be efforts to reduce uncertainties and improve estimates of present-day global volcanic CO2 emissions, but there is little doubt among volcanic gas scientists that the anthropogenic CO2 emissions dwarf global volcanic CO2 emissions.

The vast amount of CO2 emitted by man compared to the insignificant amount by volcanos has been known for decades. That you are so damned stupid as to not do even minimal research reflects very poorly on your ethics and intelligence.

Talk about dumb, one volcano just burped CO2 all over your silly theories

now let's talk about how you do not know the difference between affect and effect.

True idiot you are old crock..

So, you know more than the geologist, the geo-physicists, and volcanologists at the USGS? Egad, you know nothing morons are getting worse every day in your stupid claims.

Cry baby

 

[Billy_Bob]

The article is a good one at the source.

You can actually see the mapped alcogon to the west towards oregon in this depiction from USGS.

SOURCE

OK. What the hell is an 'alcogon'?

Really???????

Alcogon; Subterranean pathway;
; The subterranean connection between Volcanoes following the tri-radiate fracture lines between them, just above the mantel of earths crust.

 

[Old Rocks]

The article is a good one at the source.

You can actually see the mapped alcogon to the west towards oregon in this depiction from USGS.

SOURCE

OK. What the hell is an 'alcogon'?

Really???????

Alcogon; Subterranean pathway;
; The subterranean connection between Volcanoes following the tri-radiate fracture lines between them, just above the mantel of earths crust.

Well now. Put alcogon on dictionary, no results. Put it out on web as a single word, the only result was a referance to your post. Link to it's use in an article. Otherwise, something else you have pulled out of your ass.

 

[Old Rocks]

Just put 'alcogon' on google scholar. Same results. As I thought, something you pulled out of your ass.

 

[Old Rocks]

By the way, Billy Bob, St. Helens is a stratavolcano that is the result of a subduction zone. Yellowstone is a caldera that is the result of a plume. No connection at all between them.

 

[elektra]

Just put 'alcogon' on google scholar. Same results. As I thought, something you pulled out of your ass.

If you were in a College debate, or even High School you would be kicked out of the debate stating, "As I thought, something you pulled out of your ass".

Old Crock, you are really quick to use any sort of cheap shot to attack someone, like stating people would get kicked off a debate team if we followed the rules of debate.

Old Crock, you are nothing more than a mean troll hypocrite, unable to validate one of your own posts. I should count the amount you ran from today, what was is 7?

 

[elektra]

By the way, Billy Bob, St. Helens is a stratavolcano that is the result of a subduction zone. Yellowstone is a caldera that is the result of a plume. No connection at all between them.

No connection if you forget you could drive from one to the other, I bet there are lot more connections besides the tiny bit of land that separates them.

 

[Old Rocks]

By the way, Billy Bob, St. Helens is a stratavolcano that is the result of a subduction zone. Yellowstone is a caldera that is the result of a plume. No connection at all between them.

No connection if you forget you could drive from one to the other, I bet there are lot more connections besides the tiny bit of land that separates them.

Very stupid statement. One is on the West side of Washington state, the other on the Wyoming-Idaho border. That is several hundred miles of land between them.

 

[elektra]

By the way, Billy Bob, St. Helens is a stratavolcano that is the result of a subduction zone. Yellowstone is a caldera that is the result of a plume. No connection at all between them.

No connection if you forget you could drive from one to the other, I bet there are lot more connections besides the tiny bit of land that separates them.

Very stupid statement. One is on the West side of Washington state, the other on the Wyoming-Idaho border. That is several hundred miles of land between them.

Thank you for qualifying your statement as being "Very stupid statement"