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A website called the [url=http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/costa-ricas-turrialba-volcano-alert-status-raised-to-yellow-authorities-say-an-eruption-could-be-imminent/]TheExtinctionProtocol.com[/url] is getting a little excited about Costa Rica’s Turrialba Volcano being so active …
Temperatures around some fumaroles on the volcano have risen to as much as 800° Celsius, accompanied by eruptions of ash.
Turrialba is the only volcano in Costa Rica currently with a yellow threat-level indicator. An upgrade to red would mean an eruption is imminent.
[url=http://www.prensalibre.cr/lpl/nacional/63874-alerta-amarilla-en-volcan-turrialba-por-cambios-en-erupciones.html]PrensaLibre.com[/url] also reported on the Yellow Alert
[quote=”Scott”]A website called the [url=http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/costa-ricas-turrialba-volcano-alert-status-raised-to-yellow-authorities-say-an-eruption-could-be-imminent/]TheExtinctionProtocol.com[/url] is getting a little excited about Costa Rica’s Turrialba Volcano being so active …
Temperatures around some fumaroles on the volcano have risen to as much as 800° Celsius, accompanied by eruptions of ash.
Turrialba is the only volcano in Costa Rica currently with a yellow threat-level indicator. An upgrade to red would mean an eruption is imminent.
[url=http://www.prensalibre.cr/lpl/nacional/63874-alerta-amarilla-en-volcan-turrialba-por-cambios-en-erupciones.html]PrensaLibre.com[/url] also reported on the Yellow Alert
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Major eruptions are almost always preceded by increasing earthquakes as the magma rises in the vents. The Universidad de C.R. has a website showing near-realtime earthquake activity at http://www.lis.ucr.ac.cr/index.php?id=Inicio
Unfortunately there is no really close publicly shown site to Turrialba on this website, though I’m sure they are monitoring it from somewhere nearby.There is a brief video of Turrialba here (with commercials):
http://www.itn.co.uk/home/46106/Costa+Rican+volcano+spews+smoke+and+ash..and did you ralize that an eruption would be a message the The End Is Near? :cry::roll:
Shame the guy in the video doesn’t even try to pronounce Turrialba – he only spelled it – but with all your scientific experience ‘pharg’ isn’t true we’ve seen a dramatic uptick in volcanic and earthquake activity worldwide?
Why?
Scott
[quote=”Scott”]Shame the guy in the video doesn’t even try to pronounce Turrialba – he only spelled it – but with all your scientific experience ‘pharg’ isn’t true we’ve seen a dramatic uptick in volcanic and earthquake activity worldwide?
Why?
Scott
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Hi Scott-Not necessarily an uptick in events; more like an uptick in monitoring activities.
A hundred years ago nobody paid much attention to earthquakes/eruptions in C.R. (not so many people; nor any monitoring equipment, etc.) until Cartago was leveled in 1910.
Earthquakes have been ongoing since the planet solidified ~4.5 billion years ago.
Some of the more memorable ones were the planetary quakes/eruptions following the asteroid that hit Mexico [causing dinosaur final extinction] and the Permian extinction 252 million years ago when 95% of all marine life became extinct and more than 2/3 of all terrestrial life disappeared.
Now those were eruptions! I suppose the answer is, what is your timeline perspective? I tend to
take the long view. 😉To be complete, there are scientists who suggest that shorter (in geological time) perturbations in the earth’s rotation and orbit can impact vulcanism/tectonics (as well as climate:
[ http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/14/earth-wobble-climate.html ]
And Google to Milankovitch cycles
PEH
(thus endeth the lesson for today:roll:)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/14/earth-wobble-climate.html
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