Re:Japanese volcano erupts
by nopassrecover on Sunday March 13, 2011 @02:19PM
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So correlation != causation but...
Shinmoedake erupted recently (Feb 1), was quiet since March 1st and has now erupted again. Interestingly it has been showing increasing activity the last couple of years (eruptions in 1716, 1717, 1771, 1822, 1959, 1991, 2008, and 2009). One could perhaps draw some arbitrary links between these dates and significant earthquake activity, but that would probably be taking it too far.
An Indonesian volcano (Karangetang) also erupted following the recent earthquakes (Hawaii had smaller unrelated quakes as well which I wasn't aware of).
Russian volcanoes also erupted following the quakes (accompanied by smaller quakes).
Re:Japanese volcano erupts
by nopassrecover on Sunday March 13, 2011 @03:19PM
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Yeah I heard about that but thought it might be a bit far-fetched. Yeah I meant correlation with the earthquake (the articles I read strongly mentioned that the volcanoes are coincidental, not necessarily related causally).
Re:Japanese volcano erupts
by mzl on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:49AM
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Apparently, the name Eyafjöll (which is used in the article with the ö changed to oe) refers to part of the site of the famous Icelandic volcano. From Wikipedia: "The name Eyjafjöll describes the southern side of the volcanic massif together with the small mountains which form the foot of the volcano".
Shinmoedake erupted recently (Feb 1), was quiet since March 1st and has now erupted again. Interestingly it has been showing increasing activity the last couple of years (eruptions in 1716, 1717, 1771, 1822, 1959, 1991, 2008, and 2009). One could perhaps draw some arbitrary links between these dates and significant earthquake activity, but that would probably be taking it too far.
An Indonesian volcano (Karangetang) also erupted following the recent earthquakes (Hawaii had smaller unrelated quakes as well which I wasn't aware of).
Russian volcanoes also erupted following the quakes (accompanied by smaller quakes).
http://www.businessinsider.com/extreme-supermoon-2011-3