VOLCANO ERUPTS IN NEW ZEALAND .... With tourists in and around the crater, 15 confirmed dead with many missing
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New Zealand volcano: no survivors on White Island, police believe – as it happened
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New Zealand volcano: no survivors on White Island, police believe – as it happened
Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five
Nature wins again.
R.I.P. to the victims.
R.I.P. to the victims.
Aerial photo of hikers in crater …. minutes before they went snap, crackle and pop .....
Interesting...
Not a good way to go. Watching hot lava come your way and nothing you can doAerial photo of hikers in crater …. minutes before they went snap, crackle and pop .....
That volcano was like...Aerial photo of hikers in crater …. minutes before they went snap, crackle and pop .....
I'd be willing to bet that lava didn't get a chance to reach them …. that hot ass 1800 degree, 300-400mph Pyroclastic flow probably instantly flash fried them … the volcano god was like game, set, MATCHNot a good way to go. Watching hot lava come your way and nothing you can do
Pyroclastic flows sweep down the flanks of Mayon Volcano, Philippines, in 1984
A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud)[1] is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that moves away from a volcano about 100 km/h (62 mph) on average but is capable of reaching speeds up to 700 km/h (430 mph).[2] The gases can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F).
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New Zealand needed human skin to treat volcano burn victims. Help came from Ohio.
fucked up situation but this was funny, I bet to them the THOUGHT that it could explode any second added to the excitement of being there too...smh
Tourism on White Island was a 'disaster waiting to happen'
Some academics have been questioning the wisdom in allowing White Island to be a tourism destination.
Raymond Cas, emeritus professor at Monash University’s school of earth, atmosphere and environment, told the Australian Science Media Centre that he always felt it was too dangerous.
“White Island has been a disaster waiting to happen for many years. Having visited it twice, I have always felt that it was too dangerous to allow the daily tour groups that visit the uninhabited island volcano by boat and helicopter,” he said.
“It has a very active geothermal system with many steaming gas vents and varying numbers of hot water filled crater lakes in the floor of an amphitheater-shaped large crater.”
Associate professor Derek Wyman, a geoscientist at Sydney University, said he was surprised tourists were allowed so close to the site, given its recent history.
“I certainly wouldn’t be recommending tourists be approaching a site that has recently been throwing material up 30 metres into the air,” he told SBS News.
The eruption was “relatively minor”, Professor Wyman said. “New Zealand sees things like this quite frequently.
“Usually people don’t die from these kinds of eruptions, but that is likely because they are not usually inappropriately close.”
And the excitement of the third degree burns as the skin fell off of them …. while their lungs got poached
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