The Earth is active

[phantom power]

We now have two volcanic eruptions that are emitting large ash clouds causing significant disruptions to aircraft flights. Last week, the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile erupted, sending aloft an ash cloud that circled the Southern Hemisphere, canceling flights thousands of miles away in Australia and New Zealand. At approximately 5pm EDT on Sunday, a new major eruption occurred in Africa at Eritrea's Nabro volcano. This volcano has no eruptions in historical records, but sent an ash plume over 21,000 feet (13 km) high over Eritrea after an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 rocked the area. The ash has now spread to the northwest over Sudan, and is expected to spread to the north over Egypt later today. On Tuesday, the ash is expected to get caught in a west-to-east jet stream flow, and spread over much of the Middle East. The latest forecasts from Meteo France (Figure 3) show impacts to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Iraq on Tuesday morning. The latest MODIS image from NASA shows the plume nicely.


Figure 2. Eruption of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano, Chile as seen by NASA's Aqua satellite at 18:05 UTC on June 12, 2011. Image credit: NASA.

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[AtheistCrusader]

1. When is it not?

[Wilms]

2. When the sun goes down at night.

:hide:

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Yeah, you better :hide:

:lol:

[phantom power]

4. The third tuesday of every century it takes a break.

OK, I give -- it wasn't my title.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Yo, why doesn't the butterfly animate anymore?

Actually, I think I may have seen someone ask you that before, apologies if so.

[phantom power]

6. I lost that animated version -- somebody on DU did that for me way back when

:(