We're not as lucky as you might believe...most of Oz's volcanoes are extinct, but the ones down in Victoria/SA and up here in NQ are dormant. Yes, they have been for thousands of years (last eruption up here was about 5000 years ago), but that doesn't mean they don't have any chance of going off again. There is still some remnant geothermal activity up here derived from both remnant magmatic and radiogenic heating, but it could still happen...or maybe never again. Who knows.
What I'm worried about are the two plugs of acidic magma that are solidifying in the throat of the volcano. If they plug it for long enough, that town in the piccie is going to suffer the same fate as Pompeii did in 79AD.
What I'm worried about are the two plugs of acidic magma that are solidifying in the throat of the volcano. If they plug it for long enough, that town in the piccie is going to suffer the same fate as Pompeii did in 79AD.
I would hate to be with in 400K when it clears its throat
BOOM
Last edited by Baron von Richthofen; 18-12-2009 at 06:19 PM.
Scary stuff indeed.
Just read a book on the Vesuvius eruption, and did visit Pompeii a few years ago - unbelievable stuff!! Walking throught the streets of an excavated Pompeii, and seeing their houses, fountains, streets, shops etc. Hope this Phillipines feela doenst do the same.
Read in the paper today that some people fed up with hanging in refugee camps were planning to try and sneak off back to there villages to celebrate X-Mass.
Only the STUPID ONES
