Volcano in Middle East

[piasabird]

I was watching the BBC news talking about a volcano near Ymen on an Island in the Gulf erupting and spewing Lava 100 Feet in the air. That should make for some interesting Naval Operations.

 

[Lemon law]

Its my understanding that this volcano goes off about once a century and is no threat to sea traffic.

 

[ProfJohn]

This is our new super weapon... we just missed Iran be a few thousand miles.

Right now Pat Robertson is on the phone telling the Iranians that they better give up their WMD or else he?ll call on God again.

 

[dennilfloss]

Footage from the Canadian navy,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news...7/oct/01/yemen.volcano
http://video.sympatico.msn.com...0-c5c685f3cc3d&f=rss37
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/.../30/canada-rescue.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/Arti...001/20071001?hub=World

Story here:
James Orr and agencies
Monday October 1, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

At least four soldiers are reported dead and more are missing after a volcanic eruption on a tiny Yemeni island in the Red Sea.
Lava and ash were spewed hundreds of feet into the air during the explosion on Jabal al-Tair, forcing authorities to evacuate a military base.

The AFP news agency reported that four Yemeni soldiers were burned to death and a major rescue operation was mounted for the rest of the garrison.

Nato said a fleet of its ships nearby had been asked to help locate nine soldiers missing from the island, which is 70 miles off the Yemeni coast.
HMCS Toronto, part of the Nato fleet en route to the Suez Canal, was sent to help search for the survivors, believed to have made it out to sea.

Ken Allan of the Canadian armed forces said: "The entire island is aglow with lava and magma as it pours down into the sea. The lava is spewing hundreds of feet into the air, with the volcanic ash also a thousand feet in the air."

Jabal al-Tair, meaning bird mountain, is one of several volcanoes at the southern end of the Red Sea between Yemen and Sudan.

The island, two miles wide, has no civilian population, only military installations used for Yemeni naval control. It is not clear how many military personnel were there during the eruption.

The Yemeni news agency SABA reported that rescuers were still searching for missing soldiers.

Jabal al-Tair's last eruption was in 1883, according to the Washington-based Smithsonian Institute's global volcano programme.

There had been considerable seismic activity around the island ahead of yesterday's eruption, the Yemeni defence ministry said on its website, including an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on Friday.

More details:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...me?cid=al_gam_mostview
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/071001/w100111A.html
http://www.680news.com/news/in...e.jsp?content=w100157A
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cap...onal/yemen_cda_volcano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabal_al-Tair_island

Must have been terrifying for the soldiers stranded there. On television, they said 8 of them ran into the sea just ahead of a lava flow. This type of divergent-plate lava is very fluid and flows rapidly over great distances. The island is only 3km in diameter so there was little time to escape.

 

[Moonbeam]

Wow

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Wow

 

[BrownTown]

This pretty much proves God is on our side right, killing Muslim soldiers and all...

Oh well that was pretty racist, but this is OT and not P&N so I don't really care...

 

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
This pretty much proves God is on our side right, killing Muslim soldiers and all...

Oh well that was pretty racist, but this is OT and not P&N so I don't really care...

Well, I won't call it the good news but the Christian nations have their fair share of volcanoes.
The US is somewhat lucky in having a comparative few with the Hawaiian one being fairly tame. But we are somewhat pushing our luck in the Cascade range with MT. St. Helens being only a mild warning.

On the down side, we get pummeled by Africa's slavery revenge in the form of hurricanes. We also have the most tornadoes, but I still have not figured out why God plagues us so.

 

[cwjerome]

Not sure I would put a military base on an island volcano that's little more than a mile wide.

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
This pretty much proves God is on our side right, killing Muslim soldiers and all...

Oh well that was pretty racist, but this is OT and not P&N so I don't really care...

Just as Katrina was the breath of Allah.

 

[palehorse]

Wouldn't it be cool if...

 

[piasabird]

Originally posted by: Lemon law

Originally posted by: BrownTown
This pretty much proves God is on our side right, killing Muslim soldiers and all...

Oh well that was pretty racist, but this is OT and not P&N so I don't really care...

Well, I won't call it the good news but the Christian nations have their fair share of volcanoes.
The US is somewhat lucky in having a comparative few with the Hawaiian one being fairly tame. But we are somewhat pushing our luck in the Cascade range with MT. St. Helens being only a mild warning.

On the down side, we get pummeled by Africa's slavery revenge in the form of hurricanes. We also have the most tornadoes, but I still have not figured out why God plagues us so.

Lets see we have Volcanoes in Washington State, Montana (Super Volcano), Alaska, Hawaii.

Anyone know of any other American Volcanoes?

Maybe Amercian Somoa, Phillipines or some territories. I think we might have a base in the Phillipine or Guam or somewhere around there where we had to evacuate at one time.