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""what happens if the diggers dig too deep and disturb the active volcanoes," says Bol" Is digging disturbing volcanoes really a serious concern?
by pmorici 12y ago
""what happens if the diggers dig too deep and disturb the active volcanoes," says Bol"
Is digging disturbing volcanoes really a serious concern?
- benologist 12y agoNicaragua still has active and erupting volcanos and a lot of earthquakes.
- pmorici 12y agoI don't doubt it but could human scale construction trigger an eruption that would destroy the country?
- benologist 12y agoPoor / developing countries don't have the infrastructure or standards to avoid disasters so I'm sure 'we' could indirectly cause a fire or a landslide or something that overwhelms their emergency services. Nicaragua's capital has been destroyed twice in the last century by situations like that.
- gus_massa 12y agoYes. But can you activate a volcano with a (big) digger? Or this danger is only FUD.
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoI have studied geology and believe that to be FUD.
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- lotsofmangos 12y agoIf Baru volcano in Panama goes off, then folk opposing a Nicaragua canal may end up looking silly as well though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%C3%BA_%28volcano%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%C3%BA_%28volcano%29
- jccooper 12y agoOnly if it erupted while they were wearing silly socks. Said volcano is nowhere near the canal.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoOops, my bad :) I didn't check the map properly and I am an idiot.
- jccooper 12y agoNot really. But there is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin Some stories have the farmer plowing the initial fissure open. If only he'd left that dirt alone, right? Volcanic activity can lie very close to the surface, but I'd imagine that opening one by accident wouldn't make much difference. If a volcano's coming, it coming, and there can't be much in the way of human activity that'll make a real difference. Anyway, it's really the Balrogs you gotta watch for. Those can be a real problem.
- gus_massa 12y agoA more detailed account of the incidents: > And there was that pit on Dionisio Pulido’s farm. It had been there a long time. Señora Severina Murillo had played around it as a girl, fifty years before. It was maybe five meters (16 feet) in diameter, and maybe a meter and a half (5 feet) deep. It made strange noises, underground noises, sounds like rocks falling. The kids found it warm, and their sticks never reached the bottom. Storm waters drained through it in the winter, and sometimes there would be a mist, but it was never hot, not so Sr. Pulido noticed. He’d stash his yoke and plow there, sometimes, when he didn’t feel like hauling them all the way back to Parícutin village. He and his brother would sometimes try to fill in the hole, but no matter how much material they threw in to it, they could never fill it. A depression had formed around it the previous August. But no one thought much of it. Part I: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/02/20/paricutin-here-is-something-new-and-strange/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/02/2... Part II: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/02/28/paricutin-save-me-from-the-dangers-in-which-i-am-about-to-die/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/02/2...
- dmix 12y agoWow, thats a great story. Thanks for sharing. I love how they went to the church for information, as they were desperately in need of a scientist. > They hurried back to San Juan Parangaricutiro to report. After hearing their description, the priest consulted the church’s book on Vesuvius. After reading up on that volcano, they were all pretty certain they’d just seen one. Where they found the history of the volcano that destroyed Pompeii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_AD_79 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_...
- oh_sigh 12y agoIt obviously is, otherwise who was quoted?