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Moon666Child
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posted June 13, 2006 02:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moon666Child     Edit/Delete Message
Normally new rivers, seas and mountains are born in slow motion. The Afar Triangle near the Horn of Africa is another story. A new ocean is forming there with staggering speed -- at least by geological standards. Africa will eventually lose its horn.

Geologist Dereje Ayalew and his colleagues from Addis Ababa University were amazed -- and frightened. They had only just stepped out of their helicopter onto the desert plains of central Ethiopia when the ground began to shake under their feet. The pilot shouted for the scientists to get back to the helicopter. And then it happened: the Earth split open. Crevices began racing toward the researchers like a zipper opening up. After a few seconds, the ground stopped moving, and after they had recovered from their shock, Ayalew and his colleagues realized they had just witnessed history. For the first time ever, human beings were able to witness the first stages in the birth of an ocean.


Complete article with photographs! --> http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,405947,00.html

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angel_of_hope
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posted June 13, 2006 02:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for angel_of_hope     Edit/Delete Message
Interesting read indeed!

In reading that article, it made me think about the futurist Gordon Michael Scallion. He's got those Future Maps of the World. I went and glanced at it and at the map from the article. And intersting note ... his map shows that part of Africa (along with other parts) as being an ocean.....

take a look...
the articles map:

Scallion's Map:

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Moon666Child
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posted June 13, 2006 03:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moon666Child     Edit/Delete Message
never heard of Scallion's Map, thank you for the info.

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fayte.m
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posted June 13, 2006 03:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
I may be wrong, but I see the area of and the surrounding areas of the legendary Krakatoa as being in potential danger. I feel an event rivaling the legendary Krakatoa could indeed occur. When I do not know, but eventually I feel it will.

Article:
Jakarta puts 11 volcanoes on emergency watch list
AFP , JAKARTA
Friday, Apr 15, 2005,Page 1

Advertising Indonesian scientists yesterday placed eleven volcanoes under close watch after a series of powerful quakes awoke intense subterranean forces and increased the chances of a major eruption.
As tens of thousands spent a third night in temporary camps after fleeing the slopes of Mount Talang on Sumatra island, where hot ash has been raining down since Monday, more volcanoes began rumbling into life.

Late Wednesday Anak Krakatau -- the "child" of the legendary Krakatoa that blew itself apart in 1883 in one of the worst-ever natural disasters -- was put on alert status amid warnings of poisonous gas emissions.

No one lives on Krakatau, which forms a small island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. But the peak is a popular tourist spot, attracting both Indonesian and foreign day trippers.

A similar warning was earlier issued for Tangkuban Perahu, near the west Java city of Bandung. Next week the city will host more than 50 heads of state, including China's president, at a summit of Asian and African leaders.

Isya Nur Ahmad Dana of Indonesia's Vulcanology Office said Mount Merapi, 70km north of the Sumatran city of Padang, had been on alert since last August, but along with seven other peaks was now under closer watch.

"The status of Tangkuban Perahu in west Java and Krakatau in the Sunda Strait have both been raised from `normal' to `alert' on Wednesday following an observed increase in volcanic activities," Dana said.

Amid growing fears of an imminent disaster in the wake of recent powerful earthquakes and last year's devastating tsunami, the government has urged people to remain calm.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono traveled to an area near Talang, 25km east of Padang, to meet some of the more than 20,000 people who have fled villages on the fertile slopes of the smoking peak.

His deputy Yusuf Kalla also warned people living near other active volcanoes to take precautions and urged local officials to make contingency plans in anticipation of an eruption.

"We call on the people to really be alert," he said.

Indonesia has more than 130 active volcanoes, forming part of the Pacific "Ring of Fire" -- an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches from quake-prone Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.

The archipelago nation's proximity to the junction of three continental plates, which jostle under immense pressure, makes it particularly vulnerable to earthquakes and eruptions.
Copyright © 1999-2006 The Taipei Times. All rights reserved.
http://www.volcanolive.com/news76.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/southeast_asia/indonesia/krakatau.html

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