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Undersea Volcano; cooool
Topic Started: Mar 20 2009, 04:54 AM (464 Views)
Jeffrywith1e
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Tongan inspection team heads to undersea volcano
 
Thu Mar 19, 12:07 am ET

An undersea volcano erupts off the coast of Tonga, tossing clouds of smoke, AP – An undersea volcano erupts off the coast of Tonga, tossing clouds of smoke, steam and ash thousands of …

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga – Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga — shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ocean.

Authorities said Thursday the eruption does not pose any danger to islanders at this stage, and there have been no reports of fish or other animals being affected.

Spectacular columns are spewing out of the sea about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the southwest coast off the main island of Tongatapu — an area where up to 36 undersea volcanoes are clustered, geologists said.

Trade winds continued to blow gas and steam away from the island Thursday.

Tonga's police deputy commander Taniela Faletau said coastal villages close to the roiling ocean site were not yet at risk and that no warnings had been issued.

Police were waiting for a government team of officials and scientists to survey the area and report on their observations before taking any action.

Coastal residents said the steam and ash column first appeared on Monday morning, after a series of sharp earthquakes were felt in the capital, Nuku'alofa.

"This is not unusual for this area and we expect this to happen here at any time," said Keleti Mafi, Tonga's geological service head.

The underwater eruption was taking place near the low-lying twin volcanic islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, and within sight of the capital, Nuku'alofa.

Large amounts of pumice thrown up by the erupting volcano would likely clog beaches on the southern coast of nearby Fiji islands within a short time, Mafi said.

Tonga, a 170-island archipelago about halfway between Australia and Tahiti, is part of the Pacific "ring of fire" — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones stretching from Chile in South America through Alaska and down through Vanuatu to Tonga.
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Edited by Jeffrywith1e, Mar 20 2009, 04:55 AM.
you see there are three things that spur the mollusk from the sand
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When I worked as a landscaper in Hawaii there was this crew of Tongan wall builders that worked the same neighborhoods as we did. For some reason the Tongans build all the walls, the Filipinos trim all the trees, and the Japanese did the landscaping. A quick Google search provides exhibit A.

Anyways, these Tongans that we always worked with were all pretty big dudes, but the biggest guy was a trip. Sun-bleached hair like a troll doll, a Federal Bikini Inspector t-shirt and, oh yeah, the guy was deaf but vocal. He was always yelling at his coworkers ("aaaaagnh!"), then he'd pick up a huge smurfing rock and throw it like a medicine ball. It was unbelievable.

Sometime I'll tell you all about eating Michelle Pfeifer's bananas and the giant concrete penises Jim Neighbor had around his pool.
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That volcano footage is fantastic.

Elko: Who the smurf is Jim Neighbor? You wouldn't happen to mean Jim Nabors would you?

So the guy likes phallic symbols. Who are we to judge?
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

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JoshFormerRoomie
Mar 20 2009, 11:28 PM
That volcano footage is fantastic.

Elko: Who the smurf is Jim Neighbor? You wouldn't happen to mean Jim Nabors would you?

So the guy likes phallic symbols. Who are we to judge?
Dude had six penises over six feet tall. I'm not judging, I'm just saying the man is as dandy as sour candy.
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"SHAZAMM!!!!!!"


"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

-John Kenneth Galbraith
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