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The vague time location of the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which covered the Roman city of Pompeii under a thick layer of volcanic lava, ash and dust, has been made more precise now. The rotten remains of a fish sauce dish helped scientists pinpoint the date of the event to 24 August 72 AD.Italian specia... |
30 September 2008
10:10 GMT |
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The seven enormous coral chunks, as huge as a house, that have been cast away on Tonga's western shore may be linked to a giant volcano-triggered tsunami wave, claim scientists. On the remote island of Tongatapu, situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, researchers found evidence of an ancient natural catast... |
25 September 2008
05:43 GMT |
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Scientists from Italy and France say that Vesuvius, the Italian volcano that transformed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae into graveyards in 79 AD shows signs of doing the same soon. Contrary to what most people believe, a volcano is not just the conic mountain that spits lava and ash toward... |
11 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Volcanoes are the result of the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust, when magma from the entrails of the planet goes out as lava. They became present in the legends and mythology of all people living around them, which venerated and feared them at the same time. There are submarine and terrestrial volcanoes,... |
19 April 2008
07:57 GMT |
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Japan has about 200 volcanoes, of which 70 are active. The most famous Japanese volcano is Fujiyama. But this one erupted last time in 1707. Others are not that peaceful. Usu, from the island of Hokkaido, has a bizarre behavior and look. At each eruption, the underground magma rises, forming amazing mounds, from a fe... |
16 April 2008
10:25 GMT |
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The Hawaii islands is the product of the volcanoes. The archipelago, located 4,000 km (2,500 mi) away from California, was unknown to the Europeans until the voyages of James Cook, who stepped on the islands in 1778 (later, he was killed by the natives, during a visit in the archipelago). Cook named Hawaii the Sandw... |
4 April 2008
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Measurements conducted with ESA's Venus Express spacecraft reveal that Venus contains variable quantities of sulphur dioxide gas in the upper layers of the atmosphere, which may be evidence that Venus still has active volcanoes on its surface or some other unknown mechanism is producing this effect. Sulphur diox... |
4 April 2008
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This is like a wound that never gets closed. In one of the hottest spots of the Earth, in the desert of northern Ethiopia, where even in the winter temperatures vary between 40 to 50oC, the volcano Erta Ale was discovered by the Europeans in 1906. The volcano is active for hundreds of years. Most volcanoes manifest t... |
24 March 2008
10:19 GMT |
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The Krakatoa eruption may have been just a child play compared to the volcanic megablast that spread havoc in the human civilization around 536 AD. Its volcanic cloud could have triggered a global chill that caused famine in half of the world's population. An international research published in the journal "Geo... |
24 March 2008
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Indonesia is famous for hosting some of the world's most powerful volcanoes. Krakatoa, located on an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, is well known because of its 1883 eruption, which generated the loudest sound historically reported: it was distinctly heard even in the Australia... |
21 March 2008
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This is an unique and wild landscape, characterized by chaotic rocks, sharp volcanic cones and coniferous forests surrounding the highest lake in the Cascades Mountains, the deepest lake in US (589 m or 1,963 ft) and the seventh in the world: Crater Lake.It is located in southern Oregon, in a volcanic region. The lak... |
14 March 2008
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On the night of August 21st, 1986, 80 million cubic meters of carbon dioxide (1.6 million tonnes of CO2) burst from the water of the volcanic Lake Nyos, killing by asphyxiation 1,700 persons and 3,600 livestock. The 50 m (166 ft) tall jet was made of gas (90%) and water. The gas had accumulated in the depths of the l... |
23 February 2008
05:07 GMT |
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At the bottom of the oceans, the lowest level of the ocean waters, submarine volcanoes are found. They erupt periodically, but also phenomena similar to others that accompany terrestrial volcanoes, such as submarine geysers, can be found and are called hydrothermal vents (hot vents) or black smokers. The submarine v... |
15 February 2008
09:39 GMT |
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Most of the images taken by ESA's Mars Express, although extremely spectacular, usually miss critical features such as the topography of the photographed surface area, or vertical elevation of the structures and the surrounding regions. On the other hand, the High Resolution Stereo Camera on-board the Mars Expre... |
6 February 2008
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There are 112 active or inactive volcanoes in Costa Rica, but Poas, 2,700 m (9,000 ft) tall, is extremely unusual. It is not the most active (this being Arenal, 1,500 m/5,000 ft tall) nor the tallest (this being Irazu, 3,400 m/11,330 ft tall), but it has two craters: an active one, while the other holds a lake surrou... |
30 January 2008
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1. The Andes, this backbone of South America, have a length of 7,600 km (4,800 mi), covering a surface of 2 million square km (800,000 square mi), and having an average height of about 4,000 m (13,000 ft). This is the longest terrestrial mountain range (longer chains are found on the bottom of the oceans). 2. The hig... |
28 January 2008
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The theory of the plate tectonics and continental drift was accepted in the '60s, when the proofs came from the ocean. Earth's external layer is called lithosphere. It is a rigid blanket with a thickness of about 100 km (62 mi). It includes both the oceanic platform and the continental crust, but also the u... |
23 January 2008
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Under the 3,000 m (10,000 ft) thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists have found proofs of a spectacular volcanic eruption. This happened under the Pine Island Glacier (in the area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet) about 2,000 years ago (in 325 B.C.) and the under-ice volcano is still active, having a 'v... |
21 January 2008
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Since the 19th century, scientists noticed that similar fossils were found in nowadays continents located far away one from another. At the beginning of the 20th century, the American geologists suggested that continents could come off one from another. In 1915, the German scientist Alfred Wegener, in his work "The O... |
17 January 2008
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Vulcan was the Roman god of fire, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In ancient times people regarded volcanoes as gods, which were worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms triggered earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Anaximander (611-54... |
17 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, is about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many subsequent civilizations placed ... |
10 December 2007
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Previously, Roman thrones were known only from paintings or as made of marble. But now researchers have discovered the first ever surviving Roman throne in the lava and ash that buried the city of Herculaneum, during the 79 AD eruption of the volcano Vesuvius (which destroyed also Pompeii and Stabiae), 82 ft (27 m) u... |
6 December 2007
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1.Costa Rica is a small country from Central America having 4 million inhabitants and is slightly larger than Switzerland. The land was discovered in 1502 by Columbus, who was taken by surprise with his whole fleet by a storm in the waters off the neighboring Honduras. Columbus navigated along the shores of present-d... |
27 November 2007
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Krakatoa volcano, located on an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, produced on August 26-27, 1883 the most massive volcanic explosions ever recorded, which generated the loudest sound historically reported: it was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia (1930 mi (3100 km)) an... |
13 November 2007
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The world "volcano" comes from the Roman god of fire Vulcan, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In the ancient times, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms trigge... |
3 November 2007
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Since Google introduced the Mapplets technology into the web-based mapping tool, a lot of users created their own maps with different purposes. Either they were showing information about floods or traffic, they were all very useful and kept the main technology - Google Maps in spotlights. Today, Scott Haefner and Din... |
28 August 2007
03:29 GMT |
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A mud volcano has nothing to do with the proper volcanoes. Mud volcanoes appear mostly when gas pockets or gas deposits associated with oil manage to seep to the surface, transporting water mixed with solid material (mud, made mainly of clay and sand). Of course, these volcanoes are not hot at all, on the contrary, t... |
15 August 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Some say life was brought to Earth by aliens. Beyond theories that seem depicted from a SF movie, it looks like early life indeed appeared in some extraterrestrial conditions. Geologists have encountered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, enhancing the theory that life may have originated on the bott... |
6 August 2007
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Io is one of the 63 confirmed satellites of the gas giant Jupiter and the fourth largest moon in the Solar System. Although it is just 100 km larger in radius than Earth's Moon, astronomers found it to be the most active place for volcanic activity ever detected in the Universe.With over 400 active volcanic sit... |
23 July 2007
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The European Space Agency's Envisat satellite captured beautiful pictures of the Mount Gamkonora, a volcano in Indonesia that erupted on July 10, 2007, after more than three centuries after the largest eruption and is now spewing hot ash and smoke into the air.The highest peak of Halmahera island, Indonesia, vi... |
12 July 2007
06:34 GMT |
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The northern tip of the Pacific Ring of Fire is boiling. Klyuchevskoy, a stratovolcano located in the north central part of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the highest mountain of this peninsula (4,649 m or 15,470 ft tall) is spitting ash up to 32,000 ft (10,700 m) in the air and has diverted air traffic in routes toward... |
6 July 2007
05:45 GMT |
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This eruption was almost as disastrous as the meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. 74,000 years ago, the Sumatran Toba (western Indonesia) volcano threw the world in a volcanic winter followed by a severe ice age after expelling 720 cubic miles (3,000 cubic kilometers) of magma and huge amounts of sulfuric ... |
6 July 2007
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In March 1, 1872, the Congress of the United States created the first National Park in the world, which later became the symbol of nature protection in North America and all over the world. The zone had been explored for the first time just two years before, in 1870, by the expedition led by the general Washburn, eve... |
4 July 2007
11:08 GMT |
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Mauna Loa is one of the five volcanoes making up the Hawaii Island, the Earth's largest one, with a volume estimated at about 18,000 cubic miles (75,000 km³).The way the massive volcano is bulging and the swelling could enable the researchers to forecast when the next massive eruption will occur. Better prognose... |
18 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Volcanoes are the result of the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust, when magma from the entrails of the planet goes out as lava. They became present in the legends and mythology of all people living around them, which venerated and feared them at the same time. There are submarine and terrestrial volcanoes,... |
24 April 2007
12:21 GMT |
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4700 years ago, in the place where Santorini archipelago is located today, occurred a devastating huge volcanic explosion. This eruption sank most of the land where now the Greek islands are located and killed over 35,000 people and the thriving Minoan civilization.All this is connected today to the myth of the Atlan... |
3 April 2007
05:35 GMT |
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Northwestern US is not given to rest: Mount St. Helens seems to enter the same cycle followed by Kilauea in Hawaii with magma being replaced from an reservoir located under the volcano at the same pace as it goes out as lava at the surface. "While the two volcanoes are different in many respects, St. Helens appears t... |
30 March 2007
10:11 GMT |
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In places where the Earth's tectonic plates collide or diverge, volcanoes appear. Volcanoes can be terrestrial or submarine. There can be submarine volcanoes, which erupt periodically, but also phenomena similar to others that accompany terrestrial volcanoes, like submarine correspondent of the geysers, named hy... |
13 March 2007
12:08 GMT |
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During the antiquity, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Now, researchers just focus on achieving the right methods of preventing the volcanic eruptions and decreasing the damages they inflict.Under the terrestrial crust, the rocks are under molten stage, forming the m... |
8 March 2007
09:45 GMT |
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