Sentences with phrase «powerful eruption»

It was the most powerful eruption in known history, killing 100,000 people.

All three events, including the largest, most powerful eruption of the trio on 29 Aug. 2013, were likely characterized by «curtains of fire,» as lava blasted out of fissures perhaps several miles long.

When the crust has become fully mature, giant reservoirs are able to form in the upper crust and thus we see extremely powerful eruptions.»

Jupiter's colorful moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, has unleashed the most powerful eruption ever seen.

«We used to think major flaring episodes from red dwarfs lasted no more than a day, but Swift detected at least seven powerful eruptions over a period of about two weeks,» said Stephen Drake, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who gave a presentation on the «superflare» at the August meeting of the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division.

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«Up until now, this theory hasn't been able to explain how the magma can maintain its heat in these near - surface reservoirs and thus produce extremely powerful eruptions.»

If it's a powerful eruption, the sulfurous gases will be propelled into the stratosphere, where they will be converted to tiny droplets of sulfuric acid, aka sulfates, about a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head - on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.

Powerful eruptions can wreak havoc on monsoons by shifting and weakening the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a belt of low pressure near the equator that drives nearby precipitation patterns.

The film also shows a large tidal wave, caused by the powerful eruption, which sends at least one ship from the nearby bay crashing into the city itself.

What could spark such a powerful eruption?

Eventually, two of these stars either grazed each other or collided, triggering a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of giant streamers of dust and gas into interstellar space at speeds greater than 150 kilometers per second.

Indonesian officials have warned that Mount Agung is on the brink of a powerful eruption as the volcano continues to hurl ash and smoke thousands of feet into the air