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On Aug. 29, thousands of people were evacuated after a volcano on the Indonesian
land of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years. Earlier this month, Mount
nabung spewed hot ash more than a mile into the air along with volcanic earthquakes.
wo people died and more than 30,000 were evacuated.
On Aug. 25, Italy's Etna volcano and Columbia's Galeros volcano, both erupted. The
xplosions were not huge, but new and perhaps bigger eruptions are expected at
nytime.
f volcanic activity continues to increase, and there is an eruption big enough to send
illions of tons of ash and dust into the upper layers of the atmosphere, then the Earth's
mperature would likely drop at least a degree or two from present levels. This
appened in June of 1991 when Mount Pinatubo exploded in the Philippines. For the
llowing year, the Earth's temperature dropped about 1-2 degrees before recovering
veral years later.
Here are the 20 most deadly volcanic eruptions in the past 500 years worldwide and
eir approximately death tolls:
limatologist Cliff Harris writes a weekly column for The Coeur d'Alene Press.
ee entire article:
tp://www.cdapress.com/columns/cliff_harris/article_a359d6f3-fc9c-53ed-9a50-
dda114380bd.html
I fear that we are seeing a similar increase in volcanic activity right now.
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