Sentences with phrase «after an eruption in»

Unfortunately, things didn't go so well when they tried it again after an eruption in 1669: this time their holy relic let them down and the city's harbour was badly damaged.
New Zealand scientists mapped the Havre volcano, a caldera nearly three miles (4.5 kilometers) across on the seafloor northeast of the North Island of New Zealand, using shipboard sonar instruments in 2002 and again immediately after the eruption in 2012, revealing the presence of new volcanic material on the seafloor.
An exclusion zone extending 7.5 km from the crater remains in place following the evacuation of more than 185,000 people after an eruption in September, and authorities have warned anyone remaining within it to leave the area.
An exclusion zone extending up to 7.5 km from the crater remains in place, following the evacuation of more than 185,000 people after an eruption in September, and authorities have warned anyone remaining within it to leave the area.

Not exact matches

Obama recruited McDonald in July 2014 after the eruption of a scandal over the wait times veterans faced for medical care shook the department to its core.
More research is needed to determine what's going on, but the findings are in keeping with professional dental guidelines that suggest avoiding on - demand breastfeeding after tooth eruption, they write.
Such sporadic eruptions of violence has been recorded in Bimbilla since 2014, after one of the persons in the longstanding kinship dispute between members of the Gbugmayili gate was assassinated.
Brilliant outbursts of radiation from near the black hole had spread outward, struck iron atoms in surrounding gas clouds, and then reflected toward Earth, becoming visible here long after the original eruption.
Dr Ubide said it was currently very difficult to predict volcanic eruptions — as evidenced by the eruption at Mount Agung in Bali, which started last November after 2 months of precursory earthquakes.
«We have found that the deposition of sulfur compounds in the Antarctic after very large volcanic eruptions in the tropics may be lower than previously thought,» the atmospheric researcher summarizes the findings of the study which has just been published in the current issue of the international «Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmosphere.»
After large volcanic eruptions that pump sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, such as that of mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, the planet cools for a year or two.
Imagery from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), used in two separate studies, shows the dynamics of loops before, during and after eruptions.
In 2011, after four years of unusually strong seismic activity around Mt. Paektu, DPRK scientists sought international colleagues to help them determine the volcano's current state and its potential for an eruption.
Part of the Tongariro Crossing was closed for months after localized eruptions in 2012.
After a week of rumbling, Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano began erupting yesterday, say scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) in Reykjavik — although the eruption remained entirely under the thick ice covering the volcano.
Since the volcano is still active, bunker - like concrete shelters are provided around the crater, built after a dozen people perished in a sudden eruption some 50 years ago.
The risk level had been raised to red, the highest level on the country's five - point alert system, on Saturday after authorities detected signs of a small eruption beneath a glacier near the Bardarbunga volcano in central Iceland.
A year after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption paralyzed air travel in much of Europe, another Icelandic volcano blew its top.
After witnessing the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius in the bay of Naples, Italy, on 24 August, 79 C.E., ancient Roman scientist and writer «Pliny the Younger» documented how the volcano mouth spit burning rocks and ashes upon the nearby region.
Lieutenant Owen Phillips, dispatched by Raffles to investigate conditions and provide an emergency supply of rice to the inhabitants, arrived in Bima several weeks after the eruption and reported that «the extreme misery to which the inhabitants have been reduced is shocking to behold.
On at least three occasions during the past 7,000 years, the penguin population was similar in magnitude to today, but was almost completely wiped out locally after each of three large volcanic eruptions.
The loss of life and livelihood after the eruption may have aggravated problems of class difference and widened the gap between the elite and the commoners, which Driessen says «existed already in Minoan society.»
After a wave of hot gas and ash, called a pyroclastic flow, engulfed nearby Pompeii and killed those left in the city, more layers of ash from the eruption buried the buildings and bodies.
After decades of dueling studies about whether it was an asteroid or volcanic eruptions that did in the dinosaurs, it is apparent that the mineral - deposit evidence is indirect and open to interpretation, even if the scientists advancing the various claims sound pretty sure of themselves.
A volcano in eastern El Salvador belched more ash and gases on Monday after a big eruption on Sunday that drove more than 1,600 people into emergency shelters.
Hiatuses can also be triggered by volcanic eruptions that eject particles into the air, reflecting sunlight away from Earth, as happened after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.
And seismic shaking can sometimes cause a surge in eruptions at nearby volcanoes after an earthquake.
The eruption spread ash across a wide swath of eastern New Britain island, as seen in these before - and - after satellite photos taken April 27 and Sept. 2.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters)- A volcano in eastern El Salvador belched more ash and gases on Monday after a big eruption on Sunday that drove more than 1,600 people into emergency shelters.
After all, the minor eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 was enough to disrupt air transport for weeks.
In fact, they say, the traces of human occupation intensify shortly after the volcano's eruption, suggesting that humans living there did just fine, Marean says.
In other words, there seems to be a concrete link between the vibrant colors and the fact that the paintings were created shortly after a volcanic eruption.
A team led by W. B. Grant of the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, monitored the influence of Mount Pinatubo, in the Philippines, before and after its eruption last June, using balloon - borne instruments launched from Brazzaville in the Congo (4 degrees South, 15 degrees East) and Ascension Island (8 degrees South, 14 degrees West).
Scientists have never been able to study a large underwater silicic eruption shortly after it occurred in order to better understand how they happen and what they produce.
Knowing both the physical location and the altitude distribution of aerosols in the volcanic cloud allow more accurate forecasts in the days, weeks and months after an eruption.
At precisely these altitudes, the amount of ozone in the stratosphere declined between three and six months after the eruption.
Their concern is based on three eruptions: a gigantic caldera - forming blast that occurred in the region 2.1 million years ago, another that followed 700,000 years later, and a third 700,000 years after that (which might mean that this old faithful is ready to blow right around now).
In late May 1991, after noting small eruptions and the formation of a lava dome, JMA convinced local authorities to evacuate 12,000 nearby residents.
The study, published online today in Nature Communications, used sophisticated climate model simulations to show that El Niño tends to peak during the year after large volcanic eruptions like the one at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991.
Regardless of artistic style, paintings created soon after volcanic eruptions had redder skies than those painted during periods of low volcanic activity, the researchers report online today in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
By measuring the size of the largest raindrop imprints (inset) in ash that solidified soon after an eruption 2.7 billion years ago (pocked slab, main image) and comparing them to the imprints made by drops of various sizes and momentums in lab tests, the team estimates that the density of Earth's oxygen - free atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago most likely ranged between 50 % and 108 % of today's air and was certainly less than twice its modern density — a thickness insufficient to offset the dimness of the sun at the time.
These strange colonies were seen on an expedition to Tagoro volcano, near the Canary Islands, in 2014, two years after an eruption reshaped 9 square kilometres of the seabed.
«Plumes of smoke are occasionally accompanied by explosive eruptions and the sound of weak blasts that can be heard up to 12 km (7 miles) from the peak,» the Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said in a statement after raising the alert from three to its highest level of four.
In April, eight months after the eruption, pumice from Home Reef that had been heavily colonized by such organisms washed up in Queensland, Australia, more than 2,000 miles awaIn April, eight months after the eruption, pumice from Home Reef that had been heavily colonized by such organisms washed up in Queensland, Australia, more than 2,000 miles awain Queensland, Australia, more than 2,000 miles away.
That was impossible, for instance, when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991 and blew about 20 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, the second biggest eruption of the 20th century after one in Alaska in 1912.
«There is an emerging understanding of the physical mechanisms behind changes in the monsoons and tropical rainfall after such eruptions,» says Toohey.
easyJet estimates that 100 aircraft (20 of which would be easyJet's) across Europe fitted with AVOID equipment, would provide comprehensive coverage of the continent enabling airlines to supply monitoring information to the authorities to support the new processes and procedures that were introduced after the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010.
After the start of the Deccan eruptions and the resulting rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, local temperatures warmed about 7.8 degrees C (14 degrees F).
There was a very clear dip in temperatures a year or so after the eruption and a subsequent relaxation back to normal.
Global cooling after volcanic eruptions has been recorded in ice core data and thermometers,: 1809, 1815, 1883, 1980 etc. and others.
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