Etna volcano (Sicily, Italy) erupts with fountains of fire. Mount Etna erupted for the eighth time this year. The progress of the eruption has been always the same: starting from a weak strombolian activity, turning into a lava fountain, reaching almost 500 meters and the lava following the line of the previous paroxysms, flowing inside Valle del Bove. An this a second video shot on July 30. It is a PassioneEtna video with a lot of video footage from another angle and with more than fire fountains. The month of July 2011 was characterized by a marked increase of the eruptive activity of Etna, with four episodes of paroxysmal crater located on the eastern flank of the cone of South-East Crater (CSE), and a short phase of Strombolian activity and intracraterica effusive in Bocca Nuova (BN), the first major magmatic activity of this crater for 10 years. Throughout the month, there was a strong degassing from the Northeast Crater (NEC), where they keep the usual explosions deep inside the ear.
INGV Sezione di Catania ETNA YouTube Channel. Death toll from storms in Philippines rises to 70. La_Palma_grl.pdf (application/pdf Object) Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes underneath South Pacific Ocean near Fiji island. A strong earthquake magnitude 6.7 strucks deep underneath the South Pacific Ocean at 7.42 p.m. local time (0742 GMT) and it was centered about 365 kilometers (226 miles) south-southwest of Ndoi Island, a small island which is part of Fiji.
No tsunami alert was issued. Epicenter was about 521.7 kilometers (324 miles) deep, making it a deep earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). It was followed by a few aftershocks above 5-magnitude aearthquakes. Considering the depth of the earthquake and because earthquakes below magnitude 7 due usually not generate tsunamis, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued no tsunami alert. The planet strikes back. In his 2010 book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet so devastated by global warming that it’s no longer recognizable as the Earth we once inhabited. This is a planet, he predicts, of “melting poles and dying forests and a heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by storms, scorched by heat.” Altered as it is from the world in which human civilization was born and thrived, it needs a new name -- so he gave it that extra “a” in “Eaarth.”
The Eaarth that McKibben describes is a victim, a casualty of humankind’s unrestrained consumption of resources and its heedless emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. True, this Eaarth will cause pain and suffering to humans as sea levels rise and croplands wither, but as he portrays it, it is essentially a victim of human rapaciousness. It’s not enough to think of Eaarth as an impotent casualty of humanity’s predations. Overestimating Ourselves Michael T. Role reversal: Is Europe about to move below Africa as direction of tectonic plates shifts? -- Earth Changes. Europe could be moving beneath Africa as the two continents shift closer together, scientists believe.
Geologists say a pause in the movement between the two continents could mean the tectonic plates are about to change direction, in what has been described as a 'scientifically fascinating' development. The northern edge of the African tectonic plate has descended under Europe for millions of years but recently this process halted, it has been reported. On the move: The event of a tectonic plate subduction can result in huge natural events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis Scientists, discussing the issue at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting last week, said they thought Europe could be about to move under Africa.
According to the BBC, this new development could herald the beginning of a rare - and scientifically fascinating - event of a new subduction zone. However, with a landmass that is too light, scientists do not believe Africa will descend any further. "Ominous" Japan Volcano Erupts Again. High-Speed Geology: Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International.
Cynthia Ebinger, a geologist from the University of Rochester in New York, could hardly believe what the caller from the deserts of Ethiopia was saying. It was an employee at a mineralogy company -- and he reported that the famous Erta Ale volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was erupting. Ebinger, who has studied the volcano for years, was taken aback. The volcano's crater had always been filled with a bubbling soup of silver-black lava, but it had been decades since its last eruption.
The call came last November. And Ebinger immediately flew to Ethiopia with some fellow researchers. "The volcano was bubbling over; flaming-red lava was shooting up into the sky," Ebinger told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The earth is in upheaval in northeastern Africa, and the region is changing quickly. The first fracture appeared millions of years ago, resulting in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Could Go Quickly But in the Danakil Depression, in the northern part of the valley, the ocean could arrive much sooner.