Google – AFP, 1 February 2014
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A resident
runs away to escape from hot volcanic ash clouds engulfing
villages in Karo
district during the eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano, on
Indonesia's Sumatra
island, on February 1, 2014 (AFP, Sutanta Aditya)
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Karo —
Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed Saturday after they
were engulfed in scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia's Mount Sinabung in
its biggest eruption in recent days, officials said.
Dark,
searing clouds rolling down the mountain left apocalyptic scenes of ash-covered
bodies scattered by a roadside in Sukameriah village, just 2.7 kilometres (1.7
miles) from the volcano's crater, an AFP witness who helped with the evacuation
said.
Officials
fear there could be more fatalities from Saturday's eruptions, but due to the
high potential of lethal heat clouds spewing from the mountain, a search and
rescue mission has been grounded, officials said.
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Indonesian
rescuers recover the body of a
victim at a village in Karo district following
eruptions of Mount Sinabung, on Sumatra
island, on February 1, 2014 (AFP,
Sutanta
Aditya)
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"We
suspect there are more victims but we cannot recover them because the victims
are in the path of the hot (ash) clouds," said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the
spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency.
All 14
bodies have been identified. Four of them were high school students on a
sightseeing trip to the volcano on the western island of Sumatra, he added.
"The
bodies were in a state where, even though their skin did not peel, their faces
were swollen and the tongues were sticking out," an AFP reporter on the
ground said.
Three other
people -- a father and his son who wanted to pay respects at the graves of
their relatives, and a man who came to the village to check his long-abandoned
house -- were also trapped and injured by the deadly clouds, Karo district
official Johnson Tarigan told AFP.
He said the
three were in the intensive care unit of a local hospital.
Thirty
thousand people have been evacuated from the area since the volcano started
erupting in September.
But some
residents had returned home on Friday following advice from the Center for
Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation that houses outside the
five-kilometre radius from the mountain were safe.
The volcano
erupted again on Saturday morning, sending hot rocks and ash up 2,000 metres
(16,00 feet) into the air, blanketing the surrounding countryside with grey
dust, said volcanologist Kristianto, who like many Indonesians goes by one
name.
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A giant
cloud of hot volcanic ash clouds engulfs villages in Karo district
during the
eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano, on Indonesia's
Sumatra island, on February
1, 2014 (AFP, Sutanta Aditya)
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Sukameriah
village is located in the red zone, where human activities are strictly banned,
but locals often trespassed the restricted area to check on their houses and
belongings as well as their crops, officials said.
Nugroho
said the evacuation will resume on Sunday.
Mount
Sinabung is one of 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia that straddle major
tectonic fault lines, known as the Pacific Ring of Fire.
It had been
quiet for around 400 years until it rumbled back to life in 2010, and again in
September last year.
In August
2013, five people were killed and hundreds evacuated when a volcano on a small
island in East Nusa Tenggara province erupted.
The
country's most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than
350 people in a series of eruptions in 2010.
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“2011 and Beyond” - What you are seeing, and why - Jan 16, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Text version)
New Mini Ice Age
“… So now we've refreshed that which we have said before, a review. You are in the middle of a cycle that will bring cooling to the planet. It is not a heat cycle, but rather a cooling cycle. But it always starts with a short heat cycle. It has been here before. It will come again. It is a long cycle - one generation plus five years. That's how long it's going to last. It starts with the melting of the ice caps, which is far more than any of you have seen in your lifetime or those of your ancestors. It is a cycle whose repetition is thousands of years long, but one that has not yet been recorded to the books of Human record. But it's definitely been recorded in the cores of the ice and in the rings of the trees.
Thousands of years old, it is, and it happens in a cyclical way. It's about water. It starts with that which is the melting of the ice caps to a particular degree, which has a profound effect on the planet in all ways. You can't have that happen without seeing life change as well as Gaia change and you've seeing it already. What happens when you take that which is heavy on the poles [ice] and you melt it? It then becomes cold water added to that which is a very, very gentle and finite balance of temperature in the seas of the planet (1). The first thing that happens is a redistribution of the weight of water on the thin crust of the earth from ice at the poles to new water in the seas. The results become earthquakes and volcanoes, and you're seeing them, aren't you? You are having earthquakes in places that are not supposed to have earthquakes. Volcanoes are coming to life in a way that you've not seen before on a regular basis. There will be more. Expect them.
Is it too much to ask of a Human Being that if you live by a volcano that you know might erupt, maybe you ought to move? Yet there will be those who say, "It hasn't erupted in my lifetime or my parents' lifetime or my grandparents' lifetime; therefore, it won't." You may have a surprise, for all things are changing. That is what is happening to Gaia. ….“
"The weather you have today, and all the alarming attributes of it, is a scenario of what was scheduled to happen on Earth anyway. I review again that the weather changes you are seeing prophesied by myself, 21 years ago, are not a surprise. The changes are not caused by the pollutants you put in the air. You call it global warming and that's a nice phrase, and perhaps that will get you to put less pollutants in the air – a very good thing. But what you are seeing in the weather shift today was not caused by Humans putting things into the air. It would have happened anyway in about 300 years."
"We've called this process the water cycle, since it's all about water, not about air. The water is the predominant attribute of Gaia and of the weather cycle you're seeing. More predominant is the temperature of it. The cycle is ice to water and water to ice, and has been repeated on this planet over and over and over. It is not new. It is not exceptional. It is not frightening. But it's a cycle that modern humanity has not seen before, and it's a long cycle that is beyond the life span of a Human Being. Therefore, it tends to be overlooked or not seen at all !"
"In the days of the Lemurians, the water level of the Pacific Ocean was almost 400 feet lower, and that's only 50,000 years ago. [Kryon invites science to check this out – the water level at that time.] That was a water cycle working, and the reason it was lower was due to so much of the water being stored as ice. Today you're going through another water cycle that will eventually lead to cooling. The last one was in the 1400s."
"Science sees that at about 1650. As mentioned, they are so slow there is no remembrance that a Human has of them except in past writings and in the rings of the trees. The time span of the changes is so great that environmental record keeping does not exist in the form that it does today. But you can still look at the rings of the trees and at the striations of the rocks and can generally figure out that a few hundred years ago, you had a mini-ice age. Now you're going to have another one."
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