Friday, October 21, 2011

Under Water Volcano Eruption

Resource: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/21/explosive-underwater-eruptions-are-deepest-yet-seen/ Summary: People in a submarine have now seen the deepest underwater volcano eruption ever. They say that this eruption could impact and re-shape land around the world. The volcano is called West Mana and it is right near Fiji in the southern west pacific. There plates divide under eachother, therefore the create a chain of volcanoes and this is one of the biggest ones in the world. This volcanoe was first dicovered in 2008 and eurupted twice in 2009 the first eruption was called Hades and the second Prometheus, this was also 3,900 feet under the water. The reason for the numerous eruptions is because of the gas bubbles that flow through the lava sometimes causing a fire to start. Critique: This was interesting to read and hopefully they keep looking at the volcanoe to see if will erupt again anytime soon and see if it is going to do any damage. Impact: This could have a big impact on the world if one explostion is huge, plus it can erupt at any moment and hopefully people can find out to see if its going to harm anyone or do anything to the world.

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