General / Off-Topic In other news, the Stromboli just erupted!

Remus

Remus
Just what we needed here in Europe to cool us down!

3 hours ago, the Stromboli, a volcano/island situated just above Sicily erupted violently.

It seems that the sound of the explosion could be heard all the way to Rome!

And just a few months after its big sister Etna did the same!



Notice the pyroclastic flow in the video below! :oops:

 
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askavir

askavir
sewerratuk said:
Probably not for anyone in the way of it
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Indeed, one confirmed dead, probably days before knowing for sure how many others... People are now being evacuated out of the island, as it's so small that people still there are in great danger of fires, rockfall or worse more pyroclastic flows (the pyroclastic flow that followed the explosion fortunately descended through one the 2 uninhabited sides of the mountain).

Stromboli has been erupting continuosly since at least 2 thousand years, with tiny explosions every 15/20 minutes. So much it's actually a tourist hotspot, every single day hiking tours leave at 5pm to the top of the volcano to watch the constant tiny explosions. It's nicknamed "the lighthouse of the mediterranean" due to the constant but small activity. Such a huge blast in Stromboli is extremely rare, this one was probably the largest in the past millenia.

Fortunately this ocurred a tad after 4 pm, a few hours later and there would be a hundred people or more killed.

Maybe it's time for Italy to take Stromboli (and perhaps it's close neighbour Vulcano, another tourist hotspot) more seriously and enforce 24/7 proper monitoring like they already do with the more dangerous Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna and the Phlegraean Fields supervolcano (although these are far more dangerous).
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Yikes. Yeah, maybe taking tourists up there isn't such a good idea.
 

Remus

Remus
Patrick_68000 said:
Je me demande quelle sera la hauteur de la colonne de fumée?

Pas autant que le volcan d'Eyjafjöll en 2010, surely.

:)
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Last estimates are of an ash column of 2km high. I have no clue how high was the column from the Eyjafjallajökull!

Oh and Patrick, this is the English section of the forum.

T'as intérêt a faire gaffe vieux!

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Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Remus said:
Last estimates are of an ash column of 2km high. I have no clue how high was the column from the Eyjafjallajökull!

Oh and Patrick, this is the English section of the forum.

T'as intérêt a faire gaffe vieux!

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Eyjafjallajökull!

Yes ! :)

And thanks for the reminder for the English forum (I corrected) ;)

There are difficult mornings ... :sleep:
 
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Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Remus said:
I have no clue how high was the column from the Eyjafjallajökull!
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I read between 4 and 11 kilometers during the second eruptive phase.

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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éruption_de_l'Eyjafjöll_en_2010
 
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Remus

Remus
New footage of the Stromboli.

With a very rare footage of the eruption as it happened at the crater!
 

askavir

askavir
Patrick_68000 said:
I wonder what will be the height of the smoke column?

Not as much as the volcano of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, surely.

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2km, which is still quite tame for a volcanic eruption.

The video below shows a comparison between eruptions from very different volcanoes.

Note that Stromboli is presented as an example of a tame volcano, in volcanology small, mild activity is even called "strombolian". Yesterday's eruption was an exception to the norm, but poses as a reminder that even a "tame" active volcano is still a active volcano and should never be considered completely "safe".

Source: https://youtu.be/8QSl_t65wnw?t=41
 
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Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Remus said:
Just what we needed here in Europe to cool us down!

3 hours ago, the Stromboli, a volcano/island situated just above Sicily erupted violently.

It seems that the sound of the explosion could be heard all the way to Rome!

And just a few months after its big sister Etna did the same!



Notice the pyroclastic flow in the video below! :oops:

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mamma mia
 

AkenBosch

AkenBosch
askavir said:
It's the Phlegrean Fields, west of Naples. Naples is definitively a bad place to have a 3 milllion people city, stuck between the Phlegrean Fields supervolcano on one side, the Mount Vesuvius on the other.
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Indeed, neapolitans are in for a bad day whenever one of those decides it's time to wake up for good.
Something additional that is usually overlooked is also the existence of the Marsili volcano nearby. It's actually the largest volcano in the European area, it just doesn't get the spotlight because it sits at the bottom of the Tirrenian Sea, rising for around 3 km height but still half a km below sea level. If its caldera collapses, we might say farewell to most of South-Western Italian coastal line.

Just a footnote, the Stromboli is actually monitored 24/7, as any other volcanic area in Italy, it's just that sudden outburst as the recent one are still mostly beyond our capability to predict them. It's not exactly a free roaming area, those two poor people, one of which died, were very unlucky to be in a bad place at a very bad time.
 

Remus

Remus
AkenBosch said:
Indeed, neapolitans are in for a bad day whenever one of those decides it's time to wake up for good.
Something additional that is usually overlooked is also the existence of the Marsili volcano nearby. It's actually the largest volcano in the European area, it just doesn't get the spotlight because it sits at the bottom of the Tirrenian Sea, rising for around 3 km height but still half a km below sea level. If its caldera collapses, we might say farewell to most of South-Western Italian coastal line.

Just a footnote, the Stromboli is actually monitored 24/7, as any other volcanic area in Italy, it's just that sudden outburst as the recent one are still mostly beyond our capability to predict them. It's not exactly a free roaming area, those two poor people, one of which died, were very unlucky to be in a bad place at a very bad time.
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Not forgetting the Tsunamis it could generate!
OMG.
 
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