PITON DE LA FOURNAISE Reunion Island 21.231°S, 55.713°E; summit elev. 2632 m
OVPDLF reported that an eruption from Piton de la Fournaise that began on 14 October from a fissure near the Château Fort crater, about 1.5 km SE of the Dolomieu crater rim, continued during 19-25 October. On 19 October, explosive and degassing activity from vents along the fissure increased, but was still below the intensity noted at the beginning of the eruption. During 20-21 October small lava fountains fed lava flows that traveled as far as 2 km E and SE. Decreased gas emissions were concentrated to the S and W of the fissure. During 22-24 October fountains and gas emissions originated from one vent, and lava traveled ESE. Gas emissions decreased significantly. Geologic Summary. Massive Piton de la Fournaise shield volcano on the island of Réunion is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Most historical eruptions have originated from the summit and flanks of a 400-m-high lava shield, Dolomieu, that has grown within the youngest of three large calderas. This depression is 8 km wide and is breached to below sea level on the eastern side. More than 150 eruptions, most of which have produced fluid basaltic lava flows within the caldera, have been documented since the 17th century. The volcano is monitored by the Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory, one of several operated by the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.
Iceland on watch for new volcanic eruption link
Meltwater is flooding from theGrimsvotn glacial lake in Iceland and could signal the volcanounderneath is about to erupt, a spokeswoman at the IcelandicCivil Protection Department told Reuters on Monday.
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REYKJAVIK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Meltwater is flooding from the Grimsvotn glacial lake in Iceland and could signal the volcano underneath is about to erupt, a spokeswoman at the Icelandic Civil Protection Department told Reuters on Monday. In April, clouds of ash from an eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier grounded flights across Europe for a week, causing billions of dollars in losses for airlines and other industries.
Water now pouring from Iceland's biggest glacier, Vatnajokull, which sits on top of a number of volcanic hotspots, could be a sign of fresh geological activity, Civil Protection Department spokeswoman Gudrun Johannesdottir told Reuters.
Eyjafjallajokull is about 100 km southeast of Vatnajokull.
"We have to check if there will be an eruption," Johannesdottir said. "Sometimes it initiates an eruption when a glacial outburst flood starts, but not every the time. So we are monitoring the situation closely."
The latest eruption at Grimsvotn, in 2004, caused short-term disruptions to airline traffic into Iceland.
NGO pleads for $15 billion “ocean acidification” monitoring system
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Via Eurekalert, from the NGO Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), a press release that says, “panic! please send money”. Here’s the punch line:The Foundation says the average level of pH at the ocean surface has dropped from 8.2 to 8.1 units, “rendering the oceans more acidic than they have been for 20 million years,”Note that any pH lower than 7.0 is considered “acidic”. Distilled (pure) water has a pH of 7.0. Right now the ocean with a pH of 8.1 is considered “basic”.
Even more interesting is this map below from WikiMedia showing the change in global ocean pH over the last two hundred years. The map information says:
Estimated change in annual mean sea surface pH between the pre-industrial period (1700s) and the present day (1990s). Δ pH here is in standard pH units. Calculated from fields of dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity from the Global Ocean Data Analysis Project climatology and temperature and salinity from the World Ocean Atlas (2005) climatology using Richard Zeebe’s csys package . It is plotted here using a Mollweide projection (using MATLAB and the M_Map package). Note that the GLODAP climatology is missing data in certain oceanic provinces including the Arctic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Malay Archipelago.
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Here’s the press release:
Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean, scientists urge
‘It is past time to get serious about measuring what’s happening to the seas around us’
The ocean surface is 30 percent more acidic today than it was in 1800, much of that increase occurring in the last 50 years – a rising trend that could both harm coral reefs and profoundly impact tiny shelled plankton at the base of the ocean food web, scientists warn.
Despite the seriousness of such changes to the ocean, however, the world has yet to deploy a complete suite of available tools to monitor rising acidification and other ocean conditions that have a fundamental impact on life throughout the planet.
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26 Oct 10 - The signs were all there after scientists warned that pressure building beneath Merapi's dome could trigger the most powerful eruption in years. This morning, Indonesia's most volatile volcano erupted - three times - spewing volcanic material as high as 1.5 kilometres and sending heat clouds down the slopes
Television footage showed thousands of people fleeing the eruptions in panic, some covered in white ash.
This is a triple whammy for Indonesia, coming after yesterday's powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that pounded villages on remote islands, killing at least 113 and leaving scores missing.
Read more:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/10/26/indonesias-mount-merapi-volcano-erupts/#ixzz13U0PcVsG
Or here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-10-26-indonesia-earthquake_N.htm?csp=24
Read more:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/10/26/indonesias-mount-merapi-volcano-erupts/#ixzz13U0PcVsG
Or here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-10-26-indonesia-earthquake_N.htm?csp=24
Or here:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/24670
Thanks to Eddie Mertin for this link
http://bigthink.com/ideas/24670
Thanks to Eddie Mertin for this link
Why do I keep mentioning volcanoes? Because ice ages correlate with huge increases in volcanic activity. | ||
| Here's a quote from Not by Fire but by Ice:
Just look at the last three magnetic reversals (kya stands for thousands of years ago):
I fear that we are seeing a similar increase in volcanic activity right now. |
Cameron calls for action on linkterrorism after bombs found ( I beleve this could be the tipping point!!! how long before the PTB attack Yemen or iran ITS COMING) the false flag of American war propaganda"!!!!!!
The British Airline Pilots Association said it had been warning of the risks to cargo flights for years The prime minister has called for action to combat the "terrorist cancer" in the Arabian peninsula, ahead of an announcement on airport security.
David Cameron was speaking to MPs after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency planning committee Cobra. He said the bomb's journey showed the world's interest in working together.
Home Secretary Theresa May is due to speak in the Commons after a bomb was found on a US-bound cargo plane at East Midlands airport on Friday.
Mr Cameron thanked the police and intelligence staff "whose efforts clearly prevented the terrorists from killing and maiming many innocent people whether here or elsewhere in the world".
He told MPs: "The fact that the device was being carried from Yemen to the UAE to Germany to Britain en route to America shows the interest of the whole world in coming together to deal with this.
"The threat from the Arabian peninsula and from Yemen in particular has grown. "As well as the immediate steps which the home secretary will outline, it is clear we must take every possible step to work with our partners in the Arab world to cut out the terrorist cancer that lurks in the Arabian peninsula."
The explosive contained in the device was found at East Midlands as the result of a tip off and was not picked up by initial screening
UK officials said the tip-off came from al-Qaeda member Jabr Al-Faifi who turned himself in to Saudi authorities two weeks ago.
Investigators at East Midlands failed to realise that there was a bomb on board the flight from Yemen, before carrying out a re-examination as a precaution.
In the second search, the bomb was found hidden in a printer cartridge posted in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
Norman Shanks, former head of security at airport operator BAA, said cargo checks were less exacting than those on passengers.
Calling for a fundamental review of security, Mr Shanks said the industry was looking at introducing the explosive detection systems currently used for passengers' baggage that goes into the hold.
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Former head of BAA security Norman Shanks on airport security
US President Barack Obama's counter-terrorist adviser John Brennan has said the US and its allies could not assume that there were no other packages containing bombs still out there.
Cargo screening
- Methods vary between countries, ranging from none at all to screening a small sample or simply matching consignment sheets with goods
- UK uses a "known consignor" system, where freight companies are audited by the Department for Transport
- Once the company is given trusted status, its freight is not checked by a third party
- The audit includes an inspection of site, recruitment and checks on staff, security training and storage procedures
- Freight from companies without the status is screened by third parties, using basic X-rays and sniffer dogs searching for explosives
Home Secretary Theresa May has pledged to review air freight security following the terror alert on Friday. She is due to make a statement to Parliament.
Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of counter-terrorism laws, said the failure of existing equipment to initially identify PETN was a "weakness" and checks should be made to ensure the most up-to-date technology was in use.The explosive used in the bomb - PETN - can be difficult to detect when well-sealed.
Lord Carlile said: "I was not in the least surprised that an attempt was made to send bombs through the parcel system which now operates on a very large scale worldwide.
"I think that we should develop the use of technology, of intelligence-led people and the use of explosive-sniffing dogs which can be very useful to ensure that no stream of exit or entry involving the United Kingdom is unprotected."
The British Airline Pilots Association said its members had been warning for years about "open-door" cargo flights.
General secretary Jim McAuslan said efforts should be switched from some of the "redundant security measures" aimed at passengers, towards checking freight instead.
"It makes no sense to us that scarce resources are used to strip down pilots with years of flying experience, rather than targeting resources at the vulnerabilities that we have seen exploited in the past 24 hours," he said.
Calls for an overhaul were echoed by the British International Freight Association, although it insisted there were "already well-established, in-depth and organised processes" in place to screen cargo.
Chief executive of budget passenger airline Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, said he feared a new raft of "ludicrous" airport security measures as a result of the latest incident.
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Michael O'Leary says certain airport surveillance measures have "no effect on security whatsoever"
But shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said the bomb discovery had exposed gaps in cargo screening.
"If [it] requires extra security measures to make sure that we're safe - safe in aeroplanes and safe on the ground underneath flight paths - then, I'm afraid, that's what we're going to have to look at."
Just last week, British Airways chairman Martin Broughton called for some "completely redundant" security checks of air passengers to be abolished, highlighting the removal of shoes and separate screening of laptops.
Officials in the US said the bomb found at East Midlands - and another discovered in Dubai - were built by the same person who made the explosive device used in the failed "underpants" bomb attack over Detroit on Christmas Day.
Saudi-born Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri - said to be the main bombmaker for al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch - was named as the prime suspect.
Meanwhile, a female student arrested in Yemen on suspicion of posting the bombs has apparently been freed.
Reports said the woman, named by human rights groups as 22-year-old Hanan al-Samawi, had no known links to Islamist militants and may have been the victim of identity fraud.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said the issue of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was key to security concerns.
He described it as a relatively small group which had reinvented itself in Yemen. The possibility that the al-Qaeda offshoot was a bigger threat than al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan would concern the US, he said.
A spokesman for Qatar Airways said the parcel found in Dubai travelled on two separate passenger planes via the airline's hub in Doha.
The two packages were addressed to synagogues in the Chicago area. Both bombs were apparently inserted in printer cartridges.
Efforts to warn the population that the Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration before it, has engaged in issuing fake terror alerts has gone viral, with the search term “fake terror” reaching #1 on Google Trends. It is yet another success in the Infowar, initiated on the Alex Jones Show.
As we are just days out from the 2010 midterm elections, voters must realize that the establishment has willfully engaged in hyping up false alerts to scare the public into believing that we are under siege by potential terrorist acts at all moments. Various “officials” have been warning that an attack is likely to occur for weeks now, and it is no surprise to see the Obama Administration trying to use the fear to its advantage.
Recall that Obama advisor and former top Clinton official, Robert Shapiro, alluded to the idea that only a terror attack could save Obama’s presidency earlier in the year.
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” said Shapiro, adding, “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”
Read the original story by Paul Joseph Watson here, as it has been updated.
The general scare of the fake terror alert is all the more alarming, as President Obama has gone on to contradict announcements from his own administration, claiming that the suspicious package “did apparently contain explosive material” in a press conference. This, after it was already admitted the suspicious package, which originated from the UK, was harmless and contained no explosives.
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