Sentences with phrase «minor eruptions»

An estimated 1,100 to 1,500 people were killed by the volcano, with minor eruptions and lava flow continuing for more than a year after the initial eruption.

That's because scientists have presumed that most of the aerosols from minor eruptions do not rise beyond the troposphere, the layer of Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs and where natural processes quickly clear particles from the atmosphere.

Investigation of ash sediments from recent Mt. Pinatubo eruptions and other major volcanic events show a signature of mass independent isotope ratios of sulfur, while sediment from minor eruption does not.

25 November — three minor eruptions sent a plume rising 4,000 m and coated nearby villages in a layer of ash.

Its highest point, Mount Agung is an amazing smouldering volcano which has the potential to erupt at any point in time — the last occasion being a relatively minor eruption in the year 2000.

In the crater of Haleakala, detritus spewed from minor eruptions has piled up in cone - shaped hills — small, new mountains born in the maw of one great mountain.

After all, the minor eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 was enough to disrupt air transport for weeks.

But the chilling effect of minor eruptions has been hotly debated, says David Ridley, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Yet the cooling effect of these minor eruptions does not completely account for the global warming hiatus in which the rise in Earth's average temperature has slowed since the late 1990s, Toon says.

The team's analysis reveals that the lower stratosphere indeed contains many untallied aerosols from minor eruptions.

The minor eruption, which formed an ash cloud 700 metres above the volcanic peak, occurred just after 5 pm on Tuesday.

21 November — a minor eruption sent a plume of ash and steam rising about 700m.

Indonesia said Singapore's travel advisory to avoid parts of Bali following a minor eruption at Mt. Agung volcano was «excessive.»

Historically, Taranaki has had minor eruptions every 90 years or so with a major one every 500 years.