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Could BP Oil Spill Cause A Quake Along The New Madrid Fault?

What BP has done is that they have uncorked an “oil volcano” that is violently spewing oil and gas out of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico so violently and with such pressure that it is beyond the capacity of human technology to control it. Could all of this violent activity on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico spark seismic activity in the region? … Read ahead

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A Nuclear Option in the Gulf Oil Leak?

It’s so surreal… like a sci-fi movie. The earth is threatened by a huge hole in its crust, leaking crude oil like a highly pressurized volcano and threatening to kill all life in the oceans. The solution? The military detonate a nuclear bomb in an attempt to melt the cap rock and seal the leak. NOTE: There’s some really interesting info in this … Read ahead

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Electric Ash Found in Iceland Plume Miles From Volcano

But according to a new study, electric ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano was found a record 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) away from the eruption. At that distance, it wasn’t energy from the eruption itself that charged the ash, said study co-author … Read ahead

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Volcano’s big brother issues ominous warning

An initial research paper by the University College of London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction said: “Analysis of the seismic energy released around Katla over the last decade or so is interpreted as providing evidence of a rising … intrusive magma body on the western flank of the volcano.” … Read ahead

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Volcanic Eruptions 1800-2010 (INTERACTIVE)

Though the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallaj00f6kull volcano caused major air travel problems across Europe, it ranked relatively low on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. Here’s a look at biggest volcanic eruptions from across the globe over the past 200 years. … Read ahead

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Scientists find it difficult to predict volcano behavior

The year of the earthquake has suddenly become the year of the volcano. … Read ahead

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35 More Photos from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

The volcano continues to rumble and hurl ash skyward, if at a slightly diminished rate now, as the dispersing ash plume has dropped closer to the ground, and the World Health Organization has issued a health warning to Europeans with respiratory conditions. Collected here are some images from Iceland over the past few days. … Read ahead

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Volcano emitting 150-300,000 tonnes of CO2 daily: experts

Iceland’s Eyjafjoell volcano is emitting between 150,000 and 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per day, a figure placing it in the same emissions league as a small-to-medium European economy, experts said on Monday. … Read ahead

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Five biggest volcano eruptions in recent history

This picture is of a June 12, 1991, eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines – one of the smaller eruptions that preceded the main eruption on June 15. That eruption was the biggest since 1912 – a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano rates a 2 or 3. … Read ahead

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Iceland volcano could continue erupting for a month or more

The airspace over much of northern Europe remains shut and the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, is stranded in New York City because of the threat from a volcanic ash plume being belched out of Iceland. How long will the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continue and what other kinds of activity can we expect? A volcanologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) who has worked extensively in Iceland says a month-long eruption would not be out of the question. But the eruption could also continue for a year or more, he says. … Read ahead

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