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Before and after pics of some areas.
http://rovicky.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/lereng-merapi-sebelum-dan-sesudah-dilihat-dari-satelit/0 -
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I wouldn't advise looking at any other pics on this link !
Why? I didn't see anything awful in the others on that link. I am trying to be careful about that.
ETA: I went back and looked at all of them and saw what you meant. Christ! Thanks for putting me wise. I had only looked at the few on the first page.0 -
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up for anything wrote: »Why? I didn't see anything awful in the others on that link. I am trying to be careful about that.
ETA: I went back and looked at all of them and saw what you meant. Christ! Thanks for putting me wise. I had only looked at the few on the first page.
Dont worry about it. We all know they arent going to be pretty.:)
I really was just saying Wow at the power of it all. Its just so impressive the power of Nature. The size of the ash clouds.0 -
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Nothing new from Merapi. Still ongoing eruption but yesterday's news seem to show that it was winding down a bit. Maybe only for one day, maybe for the long run. Fingers crossed it is for the long run. They could do with a break there.
The local rescue teams are begging for volunteers from amongst the refugees because they are shattered.
Looting seems to be a big problem but judging from the state of one looter in a photo yesterday who seems to have run into not one but several trees before being officially apprehended, the locals have a way with dealing with them.
Medical teams are having difficulty with treating people with respiratory problems, burns and gas poisoning problems because the refugees keep moving from camp to camp.
Schools opened in the refugee camps yesterday. Play time over kids.
This off the Big Think blog (American time but not sure which time zone). The Bobsey Twins are relatives of his who do rescue work in disaster situations.M. RANDOLPH KRUGER on November 8, 2010, 11:52 PM
No thermals registering at this time. It might have gotten tired.
There are bands of looters on the roads trying to get back into the area.
From a different view, it would appear that most everything inside variably 14 kms to as far out as 17 kms is not inhabitable mostly to the West. The area to the West and SW of the volcano is decidedly worse than the east for just the numbers of structures standing. .
I was looking earlier and LandSat images show roofs that I thought were okay but not really. The roofing materials (tiles? Is that what they use? ) have fallen off of the rafters. No ceilings and lots of dead animals. The death toll will increase sharply I think in the next few days for obvious reasons as they give the all clear or lower the level.
Not sure how its going on the ground for recovery efforts right now. Erik’s toll of 270,000 refugees is apparently very close to right. People are housing strangers in their homes voluntarily as this is not unlike Katrina here. Bobsey Twins are on the east side of the volcano at about 15 kms and everything up the hill they said just looks bombed out. The idea is that they will continue to circle in closer and closer. They have made dozens of river rescues yesterday and today. Not getting into the water mind but log jams. They are not allowed by the locals to actually get into the areas where the water is because of acidity.
I in a short cellphone call got to ask one question and it was what does it look like?
Vietnam after a B52 air strike was the analogy. Trees laid over, homes gone, no visual reference points. Their GPS tells them they are in a town and they say that if there was a town there, its hard to tell it.
They said the people on the East side for the better part did heed the warnings and are in far better shape. The West and its heresay on their parts, say that they didnt start to move until the volcano really started to get ugly. Many were caught on the roads trying to escape.
Best thing I can say right now is that there are NO thermal indications on top of the mountain. It could change but maybe not.
Boris/Erik…That big blob of semi-incandescent material that built up in the last couple of lava shots before it blew. Was that the “dome building” that was mentioned or was it just misinterpreted as such?
Were they just fooled or never saw a load of material in the throat of one before? If it was a dome could it have just melted off at the base and been lifted?
All I saw was that it got hotter and hotter on the satellites and said so. I didnt know what I was looking at, any chance they didnt either?DAMIEN DEFFIEUX on November 9, 2010, 5:11 AM
@ Monika : so if I understand correctly, the tectonic earthquake that just happened about 100km away from the volcano is a conseqeunce of the eruption?
Can somebody explain if there is and what is the relation between Merapi eruption and the tectonic movement which created an hearthquake?
KULTSI LE ARCHER on November 9, 2010, 5:25 AM
@Damien:
None, zip, nada; no connection – well, one: they are both products of the plate subducting (going under of) another, they are parts of a volcanic arc, where both earthquakes and volcanoes are abundant. The quakes are caused by the moving plates rubbing against each other, the volcanoes come from the down-going plate melting and sending magma to the top.
Of course it’s not quite that simple, but you get the idea.
Merapi and the recent quake onle have the connection that the quake happened when Merapi was erupting, and the quake may have affected the eruption slightly; the other way round: not a chance.0 -
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