davita
I find it humorous that we members are scurrying to find information on previous volcanic eruptions.
I wonder if that's because we have a desire to be part of history or because our smartphones use predictive text and our PC's have a caché that can be interrogated....;)
JohnnyCool
Billt4SF
Krakatau was certainly a disastrous eruption, but it was preceded by Gunung Tambora (on Sumbawa island) in 1815. News of it couldn’t travel around the world quickly at the time because the telegraph hadn’t been invented. Tambora was the largest volcanic explosion recorded in human history. It lead to the ‘year with no summer’ in 1816 across Europe, Asia and North America.
The following is from Vocano Discovery:
On 10 April 1815, Tambora produced the largest eruption known on the planet during the past 10,000 years. The volcano erupted more than 50 cubic kilometers of magma and collapsed afterwards to form a 6 km wide and 1250 m deep caldera. The eruption produced global climatic effects and killed more than 100,000 people, directly and indirectly. Minor lava domes and flows have been extruded on the caldera floor at Tambora during the 19th and 20th centuries.
www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcanoes/facts/biggest-eruption.html
davita
A story....
My whole in-law family, and there are many, decided we'd spend Xmas at a resort on the beach near Merak, overlooking Anak Krakatoa.
As I'm the only 'uncle bule' my task was to entertain the kids while other uncles would dress up as Santa and Elves and deliver the presents.
I gathered them all in a huddle looking to the anak and started...."Back in 1893 there was a big, big mountain over there!" the kids had big eyes so I knew I had a captured audience and proceeded to recount the story using body language and face expressions. I could tell that my story was getting a little long when I overheard them whisper about which uncle would be Santa this year....so, just as I garnished myself for a big finale to describe the massive explosion one niece asked........ "Uncle Bule....were you there?"
Much laughter and much humiliation....:oops:
davita
A story....
My whole in-law family, and there are many, decided we'd spend Xmas at a resort on the beach near Merak, overlooking Anak Krakatoa.
As I'm the only 'uncle bule' my task was to entertain the kids while other uncles would dress up as Santa and Elves and deliver the presents.
I gathered them all in a huddle looking to the anak and started...."Back in 1893 there was a big, big mountain over there!" the kids had big eyes so I knew I had a captured audience and proceeded to recount the story using body language and face expressions. I could tell that my story was getting a little long when I overheard them whisper about which uncle would be Santa this year....so, just as I garnished myself for a big finale to describe the massive explosion one niece asked........ "Uncle Bule....were you there?"
Much laughter and much humiliation....:oops:
Melati
I have not idea about all these things, what can be the repercussions of a volcanic eruption?
Some friends from Europe told me, that they read it could be as well a risk of a Tsunami if finally there is a eruption.
The information is almost null, I have the feeling that my friends in Europe know more than us about what is going on.
I am trying to watch Bali TV to try to catch up but to be honest the information is pretty bad and not very often or always appear the same information and the same images, I am not sure about the National TV if they are covering this. Nothing to do with the information on international TV programs about what happen in Florida a few weeks ago, probably that was too much and here almost nothing.
By the way Bali TV is terrible, I miss the old Bali TV, now is full of marketing and programs promoting resorts, villas, shops, restaurants, I am not sure for who, maybe they think there is tourist watching Bali TV? or there is Balinese people who can afford to go to that villas?
Yesterday morning in one hour they repeat the same documentary about a villa four times! in one hour four times the same program about the same villa! hard to believe! and keep repeating the same programs the whole morning.
Sorry, this is not the topic.
Billt4SF
Good video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPrHy8RBj0
- Bill
hadodi
tel522 wroteAgung update in the danger area , around 200,000 evacuated
From where did you get this 200.000 number?
A. Titik pengungsian Singaraja
1. Pengungsi = 36.900
2. Petugas. = 1846
Jml. = 38.746 org.
B. Titik pengungsian Abang
1. Pengungsi. = 43.968
2. Petugas. = 2.199
Jml = 46.167 org
C Titik pengungsian Manggis
1. Pengungsi. = 50.830
2. Petugas. = 3.042
Jml = 63.872 org
D. Titik Pengungsian Klk
1. Pengungsi. = 42.381
2. Petugas. = 2.119
Jml = 44.500.
*Jml seluruhnya 193.285 org.*
tel522
ya my wife got it from indo rescue services in east bali , clearly an exageration, the official figure is around 70k ,plus the people who just left to other areas without reporting , as we will be if and when it goes bang !
Melati
I live in Ubud area and yesterday it was the first time I didn't feel any small earthquakes at all, which I was feeling quite often over the weekend and on Friday
davita
I live in Ubud area and yesterday it was the first time I didn't feel any small earthquakes at all, which I was feeling quite often over the weekend and on Friday
Really...you must have been sitting on a cushion my friend. Around 4:30pm yesterday I felt the bumps in my house in Kerobokan and so did many others in the south....
https://coconuts.co/bali/news/4-2-earthquake-shakes-karangasem-bali-amid-volcano-eruption-fears/amp/
tel522
Iv been doing a bit of studying recently, re volcanology for obvious reasons , honestly it seems to me its a bit of a black art , ya agung has all the usual symptoms high numbers of harmonic quakes , the right kind of gas emissions , if the quakes continue or stop, neither is good . its like an overdue birth a lot of wait and see.
spicyayam
I think many people were expecting it to erupt as soon as it hit the level IV mark. If you look at the eruption in 1963, first there were lava flows and then about a month later the eruption. And even a second eruption weeks later.
I can only imagine it would be horrible staying in one of the evacuation camps, especially with kids and for elderly folk. I seems like the evacuees had little time to prepare for the evacuation and now robbers are going into the evacuated homes and helping themselves to anything of value left behind.
Billt4SF
We live in Ubud and have felt nothing.
- Bill
davita
There was another 4.3 jolt today....
http://www.tribunnews.com/regional/2017/09/27/gempa-43-sr-terasa-hingga-denpasar
Getting bigger and bigger....anytime soon.
I already prepared my pool for ash fallout....
Melati
Half of our house is made from wood and three of the walls of the house upstairs are windows, so it has been very easy for me to feel the small earthquakes since last Friday or before, I don't remember when they started but were very often last week, because especially the wood was making noise and I run away to the stairs more than six times. This morning I felt something around 1:30 pm but it was a second and I am not sure about what was it because I was talking to my husband and child and I was downstairs, but yesterday I was the whole day at home and upstairs and felt nothing, but just me, who knows other people.
Foamcrest
Where did you buy the plastic tarp? Our pool is 10x4 meters. The villa is in Penestanan so I suppose Ace hardware in Gianyar. We are in Sydney at the moment but are booked to fly up on the 15th October. We could get someone, a driver friend of ours, to buy it or them depending on the size of the tarp.
davita
My tarp is 5 x 8 metres and was the biggest Depo Bangunan had....good quality but expensive at nearly Rp700,000.
I suggest you try any Asih Plastik outlet...there's a new one on Jl. Semer in Kerobokan. Their price list below....they have a 9 x 10 meter size but the quality is standard tarp...silver-coloured on the inside....but very suitable for the purpose intended.
You could easily do with two 5 X 6 and attach together.
Billt4SF
[I]"Beritabali.com[/I] reports that experts who are watching developments at volcanic Mount Agung in Bali are predicting, in the event of an actual eruption, that the volcanic burst will explode to the north in the direction of Kubu Village or to the west towards Selat Village, depending on the prevailing winds at the time of the eruption."
"If an eruption occurs or continues until after November, the wind direction will shift, blowing ash in an easterly direction."
balidiscovery.com
