Sentences with phrase «big eruption»

But scientists say they are studying what would happen if the volcano has a repeat of a far bigger eruption in 1963.

The rebuttal is that if this were true, then the CO2 records would show big jumps at the time of big eruptions, and they don't.

The last big eruption in 1963 was preceded by continuous tremors.

From 1910 to 1945, the mercury rose at a rate of 0.16 °C per decade, driven by vigorous solar activity, the initial rise in industrial greenhouse gases, and fewer big eruptions.

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.

I imagine the modelers are all waiting with baited breath for the next big eruption, but in the meantime, what else is of particular use in this regard.

If the argument being rebutted were correct, we would see 15 ppm jumps in CO2 in years with big eruptions, maybe requiring a couple for hemispheric mixing and a couple more for global mixing but definately very apparent.

«Since Pinatubo we've got a lot better» at measuring the effects of big eruptions, said Matthew Watson of the University of Bristol.

Instruments to measure activity at Mount Agung were installed only after the last big eruption in 1963, making it difficult for volcanologists to compare historical data and predict the intensity of future eruptions.

Instrumental measurement of Mount Agung began after the last big eruption in 1963, an event that lasted a year and killed more than 1,000 people.

And just to put that into perspective, this supervolcano is responsible for one of the biggest eruptions on the planet.

Try «Why do you think the volcano made a bigger eruption last time?»

Cambridge University Press, 2011 Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer of the University of Cambridge surveys the biggest eruptions of the past quarter of a billion years to illustrate how profoundly volcanoes have shaped our world and how we might apply the lessons of the past to managing disastrous eruptions in the future.

Today, the Indonesian National Disaster Management Authority raised the alert to four, the highest level, and ordered residents to stay 10 km away from the mountain because the «probability of a bigger eruption is increasing.»

At the moment, «it is very hard to tell at this time whether there will be a bigger eruption,» Handley says.

It provides an excellent primer on New Zealand's long history of big shakes and bigger eruptions.

Indonesia, the site of the biggest eruption ever recorded — Mount Tambora in 1815 — is most at risk, with about 78 historically active volcanoes.

In the grand scheme of solar things, this is not a big eruption.

With every passing day, and no big eruption, a danger is that a false sense of security creeps in.

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.

«The low ratio of 18O to 16O contents in the crystal rims indicate that something in the magmatic system changed drastically just before the big eruption.

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.

Spencer notes that Io's biggest eruptions — including this event — have struck at the moon's high latitudes, rather than near its equator.

«We knew it was a large - scale eruption, approximately equivalent to the biggest eruption we've seen on land in the 20th Century,» said Rebecca Carey, a volcanologist at University of Tasmania and Co-Chief Scientist on the expedition.

Sea surface temperature data since 1882 document large El Niño - like patterns following four out of five big eruptions: Santa María (Guatemala) in October 1902, Mount Agung (Indonesia) in March 1963, El Chichón (Mexico) in April 1982 and Pinatubo in June 1991.

«At the northern end there were two big eruptions and those lasted nearly a month, based on when the explosions were happening and when the magma chamber was deflating,» Wilcock said.

«Because the daily emissions are smaller than a big eruption, the effect of a single plume may not seem noticeable, but the cumulative effect of all volcanoes can be significant.

There was almost no one in the Aleutian mountains to observe what is now known to be the biggest eruption of its type for nearly two thousand years.

Batur Mount has eruption several time already, the biggest eruption was 1926 destroyed the Batur Village, this village it was near the lake and now they move to the top.

«We ask people in the danger zone to evacuate immediately because there's a potential for a bigger eruption,» said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the agency.

A very scenic and deep lagoon to visit located just a little north of Quito, Laguna Cuicocha sits in the cordillera of an extinct volcano and formed after a big eruption over 3,000 years ago.

Ayelén (19) & C. W. Magee (20)-- Impressive as it may appear, Caiten is not that much of a volcano nor produces that big an eruption.

For example, the forcing for the big eruption around 1453 differs by a factor of 2 in the inferred forcing -LRB--12 W / m2 and -5.4 W / m2) in the two estimates proposed for the recent model - intercomparison (Schmidt et al., 2012).

But a recent paper indicated that there wasn't good evidence of a big eruption there at that time.

Secondly, the 1810s were affected greatly by the eruption of Tambora in 1815 and another big eruption in 1809 — these caused widespread crop failures (1816 was the «year without a summer» — Henry Stommel wrote a great book on this).