Volcano Watch
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More ash from the Galeras volcano, fair use http://www.earthfiles.com/
February 15, 2009 - Colombia Volcano Erupts
and 6.2 Earthquake in Peru.
The 14,009-foot active Galeras volcano in southern Colombia near the border with Ecuador erupted on February 14, 2009, at 7:10 PM local time with a “large amount of ash” that fell on the nearby regional capital of Pasto. 8,000 people living on the slopes of the volcano have been evacuated. The U. S. Geological Survey continues to monitor Mount Redoubt in Alaska that has been rumbling and steaming, but to date no eruption yet there.
Galeras volcano in southern Colombia erupted on January 18, 2008,
in photo above, and erupted again last night on February 14, 2009,
with intense ash explosion that fell on nearby Pasto, Colombia.
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February 15, 2009 - Colombia Volcano Erupts
and 6.2 Earthquake in Peru.
The 14,009-foot active Galeras volcano in southern Colombia near the border with Ecuador erupted on February 14, 2009, at 7:10 PM local time with a “large amount of ash” that fell on the nearby regional capital of Pasto. 8,000 people living on the slopes of the volcano have been evacuated. The U. S. Geological Survey continues to monitor Mount Redoubt in Alaska that has been rumbling and steaming, but to date no eruption yet there.
Galeras volcano in southern Colombia erupted on January 18, 2008,
in photo above, and erupted again last night on February 14, 2009,
with intense ash explosion that fell on nearby Pasto, Colombia.
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Cayce like most 'channelers' refer to the times we are in... essentially the transition of the planet and our sector of space/time to the 4th density. Cayce could access the planet's pyschic data base... most can/could not, so the data is less precise. His beliefs (Christian) could get in the way of some of the data of course, same with everyone. Personally the most accurate data I've seen is the Cassiopaean source through Laura's team that I list in my signature below. Like most 6dSTO sources, they speak of this transition that has been talked about from 'UFO' circles for decades now... all these earth changes, the coming wave of cosmic energy or realm border crossing between our 3d and 4d worlds... a dividing line in the time/space continuum... 96% of the 'global warming' is said to be due to these cosmic energies/wave approaching us and all the planets/moons around us in our solar system. The big warning sign for it is the 'dark' companion/twin star or brown dwarf that should pass through on an orbital plane like Pluto's. Not sure if it will look like a large comet or what, as it's burnt out, but perhaps still outgassing? After that comes and goes and things look ok again is when the comet cluster (first created by the twin star's passing through the Oort Cloud billions of years ago and refurbished by it when it passes again, though the comet cluster has a much shorter period of ~3600 years) moves on in on the leading edge of this 'realm border' or 'wave' of matter-antimatter energy, physical-consciousness energy. This is big event for the planet's mag pole shift, tsunami's, fires, lightning, volcanoes, earthquakes etc as the planet's EM field shifts to 4d and the expansion of this field which is described in those Cassiopaean sessions as like Dorothy through the Looking Glass.
Cayce only had a small part of this puzzle as the answers are dependent upon one's questions and his were mainly along the lines of personal sessions for clients in need of physical assessment. He did discuss Atlantis civilization to some degree, though not easy to assess it all accurately as presented, mostly as it was a very advanced technological civilization, though not spiritually advanced and thus the lessons continue today along the same lines of STS control. The technology, according to the Cassio sessions was said to be about 40-50,000 years ahead of our own. Those crystal pyramids accumulation of energy for various uses, space travel etc.
All these EQ's, volcanoes, fires, lightning, drought, flood, etc are the warning signs of this shift/transition approaching. 3d will be faded out as 4d suddenly appears on the scene and 'unveils' the hidden aspect of those UFO's/aliens/GB1's thousand points of light etc for those remaining during these cataclysmic times. Add a supernova event from Rigel (I think it was) coming along as well to help change our DNA, as all that 'junk' reconfigures itself once again... part of that 'veiling' process to hide the truth etc.
If I understand that Cassiopaean group's info correctly, the ETA is April. That Mayan 2012 is said to be the latest possible date as stipulated also by this Cassiopaean source,
It is weird to take a look at this 'channeled' stuff at first as most channeled stuff out there is crap/disinfo/distraction or just plain fluff like T&A on tv, designed to keep the 'sheep' as 'sheep' and not to allow them to grow/evolve into 'shepherds' for their own souls... all part of the 'game' of existence... part of the challenge of 'waking up' and gathering the willpower to 'move on'. Symbolism is everywhere and can best be seen in scifi or even Harry Potter and those 'magical' means of teleportation, 4d dimensional aspects in the tent,car etc. Star Trek has been using some of these aspects for years too. The warning signs from Hollywood have been out there for decades in the 'disaster' movies, but the problem is understanding it.
Volcanoes, EQ's etc are just like the increased sightings of UFO's and comets/asteroids into our Local Interstellar Medium of space and especially our planets atmosphere... if you are watching this sort of thing. One thing I've learned to to keep my eyes open to everything, because it is all connected in the larger picture or context of events. Without this contextual understanding, it is just an ever increasing pile of content without explanation, and the only explanation I've come across that even tries to explain everything are these 'channeled' sources... same general message for centuries really, only this Cassiopaean source is the most detailed in content in order to try to understand events and their sequencing in our point of view.
As is said in the end of the Matrix, 'where we go from here is up to you'... or something like that.
Cayce only had a small part of this puzzle as the answers are dependent upon one's questions and his were mainly along the lines of personal sessions for clients in need of physical assessment. He did discuss Atlantis civilization to some degree, though not easy to assess it all accurately as presented, mostly as it was a very advanced technological civilization, though not spiritually advanced and thus the lessons continue today along the same lines of STS control. The technology, according to the Cassio sessions was said to be about 40-50,000 years ahead of our own. Those crystal pyramids accumulation of energy for various uses, space travel etc.
All these EQ's, volcanoes, fires, lightning, drought, flood, etc are the warning signs of this shift/transition approaching. 3d will be faded out as 4d suddenly appears on the scene and 'unveils' the hidden aspect of those UFO's/aliens/GB1's thousand points of light etc for those remaining during these cataclysmic times. Add a supernova event from Rigel (I think it was) coming along as well to help change our DNA, as all that 'junk' reconfigures itself once again... part of that 'veiling' process to hide the truth etc.
If I understand that Cassiopaean group's info correctly, the ETA is April. That Mayan 2012 is said to be the latest possible date as stipulated also by this Cassiopaean source,
It is weird to take a look at this 'channeled' stuff at first as most channeled stuff out there is crap/disinfo/distraction or just plain fluff like T&A on tv, designed to keep the 'sheep' as 'sheep' and not to allow them to grow/evolve into 'shepherds' for their own souls... all part of the 'game' of existence... part of the challenge of 'waking up' and gathering the willpower to 'move on'. Symbolism is everywhere and can best be seen in scifi or even Harry Potter and those 'magical' means of teleportation, 4d dimensional aspects in the tent,car etc. Star Trek has been using some of these aspects for years too. The warning signs from Hollywood have been out there for decades in the 'disaster' movies, but the problem is understanding it.
Volcanoes, EQ's etc are just like the increased sightings of UFO's and comets/asteroids into our Local Interstellar Medium of space and especially our planets atmosphere... if you are watching this sort of thing. One thing I've learned to to keep my eyes open to everything, because it is all connected in the larger picture or context of events. Without this contextual understanding, it is just an ever increasing pile of content without explanation, and the only explanation I've come across that even tries to explain everything are these 'channeled' sources... same general message for centuries really, only this Cassiopaean source is the most detailed in content in order to try to understand events and their sequencing in our point of view.
As is said in the end of the Matrix, 'where we go from here is up to you'... or something like that.
This one is still 'warming up' as well.... fair use http://apnews.excite.com/article/20090219/D96EO1S02.html
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Chaiten volcano erupts again in southern Chile
Feb 19, 10:55 AM (ET)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Officials say scores of people who had returned to a Chilean town destroyed by a volcanic eruption are being evacuated again as the volcano roars back to life.
The presidential delegate for the region says an explosion has rocked the dome of the Chaiten volcano and sent volcanic material down the mountain's slope, threatening to block a river and cause flooding.
Paula Narvaez said Thursday that as many as 150 people will be removed from the town at the foot of the 960-meter (2,700-foot) volcano.
Some residents of the town have resisted government efforts to move them to a new settlement following a devastating eruption last year.
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Chaiten volcano erupts again in southern Chile
Feb 19, 10:55 AM (ET)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Officials say scores of people who had returned to a Chilean town destroyed by a volcanic eruption are being evacuated again as the volcano roars back to life.
The presidential delegate for the region says an explosion has rocked the dome of the Chaiten volcano and sent volcanic material down the mountain's slope, threatening to block a river and cause flooding.
Paula Narvaez said Thursday that as many as 150 people will be removed from the town at the foot of the 960-meter (2,700-foot) volcano.
Some residents of the town have resisted government efforts to move them to a new settlement following a devastating eruption last year.
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Fireball Lights Up Hawaii Sky and Causes Jaws to Drop
There's ever more of these sightings as well.
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US: Fireball Lights Up Hawaii Sky and Causes Jaws to Drop
Helen Altonn and Leila Fujimori
Star-Bulletin
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:30 UTC
Flashy, colorful fireball awes sky-gazers.
"Look out!" shouted Gregory McCartney, who runs astronomy education programs at Ko Olina, as a fireball flew overhead.
He thought his group of 18 was about to be hit, but the mysterious object suddenly disappeared.
Another isle resident who saw the green fireball in the sky the night of Feb. 9 "thought the world was coming to an end."
Joanna Spofford, walking with her 3-year-old daughter in Kalama Valley, said, "It was the scariest thing in the world."
Astronomers said the celestial apparition could have been a new meteor, possibly from "a clump of cometary material that hadn't dispersed enough to become an annual shower."
One thing it was not: debris from the collision of U.S. and Russian satellites. That collision did not happen until the next day.
Some people reported seeing a green fireball. Others said it was orange and "scary."
They didn't know what they were looking at about 9 p.m. Feb. 9.
It was a show-stopper for Gregory McCartney, who runs an evening outdoor astronomy education and entertainment program at Ko Olina.
The NASA Solar System ambassador and board member for the University of Hawaii Friends of the Institute for Astronomy Council had about 18 people at a star show that night.
He said they were waiting for Saturn to come into view at about 9:05 p.m. "when all of a sudden, out of nowhere this streaking bullet of a meteor comes ripping across the sky over the Marriott Beach Club timeshare building (from the east) heading downwards at a 45-degree angle towards the ocean (the west)."
He was facing north when he saw it, he said, explaining he usually yells out to the crowd when he sees a "shooting star."
"However, as this meteor came closer to the crowd about two palm trees in height, it suddenly lit up brighter than a full moon as in a glow larger than I'd say a house," he wrote in an e-mail. "I mean, this thing was the largest, brightest meteor I had ever seen.
"It was literally white hot and amazingly clear white - not like milk color, but more like a glossy brilliance. As it went over a palm tree, this time I instinctively yelled, 'Look out!' as it seemed we were about to be hit.
"Then it lit up into a brilliant clear blue color for a split second, then a brilliant red and disappeared."
McCartney and his clients were not alone in witnessing the heavenly phenomenon. People elsewhere on Oahu and throughout the nation reported seeing similar events.
The Federal Aviation Administration had calls from media across the country asking about flashes in the sky that night, a spokesman said, adding that he believed it was a "meteorological phenomenon."
UH astronomer David Tholen said it possibly was "a new meteor shower from a clump of cometary material that has not yet dispersed enough to become an annual shower."
Barry Peckham, Hawaiian Astronomical Society vice president, said, "It probably was a fireball...You can see that most any night. You just have to be looking up, which very few people do."
A fireball is "just a rock falling to Earth," he said. "It's very bright and lasts anywhere from one second to maybe four seconds at the most. It throws off what would look like sparks, and it makes a tail; sometimes there's a smoke stream that follows it. Very often the head is orange. Very often the tail is green."
Peckham said fireballs "can explode, and then pieces go flying in different directions. And that all happens in just a couple of seconds." But they usually disintegrate before hitting the earth, he said.
McCartney said he does not know whether the meteor he saw landed in the sand or the ocean or whether it made it to the ground.
"It definitely stole Saturn's thunder in ending our show," he said. "At least half the group of folks with me saw this, and everyone was literally stunned and breathless with shocked, frozen smiles on their faces in awe."
Joanna Spofford, 32, was walking with her 3-year-old daughter, Journey, in their Kalama Valley neighborhood in Hawaii Kai that night when she saw a green object in the sky.
"It was the scariest thing in the world," she said. "I thought the world was coming to an end. I never experienced anything similar to that."
Spofford said she had read about the Oklahoma fireball, a bright meteor seen Feb. 15 over that state and Texas, but "this disappeared right in front of us."
Mahea Mahiai, 25, said she heard a sound like some electrical short circuit in Kalihi Valley at about 11 that night.
Suddenly she saw "a bright orange light, like a fireball, kind of, just a glow of orange light, but it happened so fast." She thought it fell, hitting the ground or something in the air.
Mahiai said her father told her kahunas are capable of sending out fireballs, "akulele," and wherever one lands, somebody is going to die.
Richard Wainscoat, with the UH Institute for Astronomy, said he had a class on Feb. 11 at Sandy Beach, and the students saw more meteors than usual.
There are no meteor showers this time of year, but sporadic meteors occur year-round that are not associated with any particular shower, he said.
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fair use http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090220_Fireball_lights_up_sky_and_causes_jaws_to_drop.html
There's ever more of these sightings as well.
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US: Fireball Lights Up Hawaii Sky and Causes Jaws to Drop
Helen Altonn and Leila Fujimori
Star-Bulletin
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:30 UTC
Flashy, colorful fireball awes sky-gazers.
"Look out!" shouted Gregory McCartney, who runs astronomy education programs at Ko Olina, as a fireball flew overhead.
He thought his group of 18 was about to be hit, but the mysterious object suddenly disappeared.
Another isle resident who saw the green fireball in the sky the night of Feb. 9 "thought the world was coming to an end."
Joanna Spofford, walking with her 3-year-old daughter in Kalama Valley, said, "It was the scariest thing in the world."
Astronomers said the celestial apparition could have been a new meteor, possibly from "a clump of cometary material that hadn't dispersed enough to become an annual shower."
One thing it was not: debris from the collision of U.S. and Russian satellites. That collision did not happen until the next day.
Some people reported seeing a green fireball. Others said it was orange and "scary."
They didn't know what they were looking at about 9 p.m. Feb. 9.
It was a show-stopper for Gregory McCartney, who runs an evening outdoor astronomy education and entertainment program at Ko Olina.
The NASA Solar System ambassador and board member for the University of Hawaii Friends of the Institute for Astronomy Council had about 18 people at a star show that night.
He said they were waiting for Saturn to come into view at about 9:05 p.m. "when all of a sudden, out of nowhere this streaking bullet of a meteor comes ripping across the sky over the Marriott Beach Club timeshare building (from the east) heading downwards at a 45-degree angle towards the ocean (the west)."
He was facing north when he saw it, he said, explaining he usually yells out to the crowd when he sees a "shooting star."
"However, as this meteor came closer to the crowd about two palm trees in height, it suddenly lit up brighter than a full moon as in a glow larger than I'd say a house," he wrote in an e-mail. "I mean, this thing was the largest, brightest meteor I had ever seen.
"It was literally white hot and amazingly clear white - not like milk color, but more like a glossy brilliance. As it went over a palm tree, this time I instinctively yelled, 'Look out!' as it seemed we were about to be hit.
"Then it lit up into a brilliant clear blue color for a split second, then a brilliant red and disappeared."
McCartney and his clients were not alone in witnessing the heavenly phenomenon. People elsewhere on Oahu and throughout the nation reported seeing similar events.
The Federal Aviation Administration had calls from media across the country asking about flashes in the sky that night, a spokesman said, adding that he believed it was a "meteorological phenomenon."
UH astronomer David Tholen said it possibly was "a new meteor shower from a clump of cometary material that has not yet dispersed enough to become an annual shower."
Barry Peckham, Hawaiian Astronomical Society vice president, said, "It probably was a fireball...You can see that most any night. You just have to be looking up, which very few people do."
A fireball is "just a rock falling to Earth," he said. "It's very bright and lasts anywhere from one second to maybe four seconds at the most. It throws off what would look like sparks, and it makes a tail; sometimes there's a smoke stream that follows it. Very often the head is orange. Very often the tail is green."
Peckham said fireballs "can explode, and then pieces go flying in different directions. And that all happens in just a couple of seconds." But they usually disintegrate before hitting the earth, he said.
McCartney said he does not know whether the meteor he saw landed in the sand or the ocean or whether it made it to the ground.
"It definitely stole Saturn's thunder in ending our show," he said. "At least half the group of folks with me saw this, and everyone was literally stunned and breathless with shocked, frozen smiles on their faces in awe."
Joanna Spofford, 32, was walking with her 3-year-old daughter, Journey, in their Kalama Valley neighborhood in Hawaii Kai that night when she saw a green object in the sky.
"It was the scariest thing in the world," she said. "I thought the world was coming to an end. I never experienced anything similar to that."
Spofford said she had read about the Oklahoma fireball, a bright meteor seen Feb. 15 over that state and Texas, but "this disappeared right in front of us."
Mahea Mahiai, 25, said she heard a sound like some electrical short circuit in Kalihi Valley at about 11 that night.
Suddenly she saw "a bright orange light, like a fireball, kind of, just a glow of orange light, but it happened so fast." She thought it fell, hitting the ground or something in the air.
Mahiai said her father told her kahunas are capable of sending out fireballs, "akulele," and wherever one lands, somebody is going to die.
Richard Wainscoat, with the UH Institute for Astronomy, said he had a class on Feb. 11 at Sandy Beach, and the students saw more meteors than usual.
There are no meteor showers this time of year, but sporadic meteors occur year-round that are not associated with any particular shower, he said.
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Rex Jackson
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Fireballs are in revelation and are a signs to watch for.
They say it's happening for two reasons: one is we are watching more and with better equipment, while two is that they are a 'sign' of incoming events... dark star(brown dwarf) punching through the Oort Cloud sends some before it and after it and this time is followed by the comet cluster (the big regular visiting one every 3600 yrs).
Not to ignore the Rigel? supernova light finally making its way to Earth, but this 'wave' or realm border between 3d and 4th density Earth is pushing this comet cluster as mentioned by this Cassiopaean source and mentioned vaguely in the past by other sources. IMO, it is merely a question of what makes sense. Most of my life I've only encountered sources of official information that never makes sense about much of anything. They are constantly changing it and twisting it around in ways that only confuse us so much that we 'tune out' to avoid further mental frustration.
This type of cosmic information that's been around for a few decades in its present form and similiar to the same spiritual information that's been around for eons, seems to explain WTF is going on and why. It makes sense in my opinion. It works and better yet, it allows all the various pieces of the puzzle to come together so that we can get a glimpse of the larger picture... ie., the meaning of life/existence etc.
The ETA is April if I've read it right, and all the various types of 'other' information like astrology and civilizational cycles seem to align correctly with these 'cosmic' intruders into our 'safe' world in which the norm is more of the same... There aren't too many sites following this stuff... Linda' site at www.earthfiles.com is one and www.sott.net is another that has a regular news site listing everything going on today including these 'sightings' on its webpage. There is alot of this stuff occurring if you are paying attention. It just isn't mentioned in the regular media yet and most likely won't until they start showing up everywhere in another month or so.
So far, the blueprint continues to unfold as mentioned... the collapsing economic civilization of the West or as the Bible put it the 'meek shall inherit the earth'... though that 'meek' is strength of humility and not lazy sloths seeking to sink their heads in the sands and forget the world around them. This stuff is all happening and as mentioned on some sites as if time was speeding up due to the increased crap being announced in the press about the inner going ons behind the scences of our civilization. It's all coming out of the closet and it helps bring the system down as well.... 'out with the old, in with the new'... chaos as the agent of change, and it sure helps to see it coming and why. Everything is 'warming up' for the grand finale... or so it seems increasingly everyday. Ready or not, we are 'Alice' preparing to go through 'The Looking Glass'.
Not to ignore the Rigel? supernova light finally making its way to Earth, but this 'wave' or realm border between 3d and 4th density Earth is pushing this comet cluster as mentioned by this Cassiopaean source and mentioned vaguely in the past by other sources. IMO, it is merely a question of what makes sense. Most of my life I've only encountered sources of official information that never makes sense about much of anything. They are constantly changing it and twisting it around in ways that only confuse us so much that we 'tune out' to avoid further mental frustration.
This type of cosmic information that's been around for a few decades in its present form and similiar to the same spiritual information that's been around for eons, seems to explain WTF is going on and why. It makes sense in my opinion. It works and better yet, it allows all the various pieces of the puzzle to come together so that we can get a glimpse of the larger picture... ie., the meaning of life/existence etc.
The ETA is April if I've read it right, and all the various types of 'other' information like astrology and civilizational cycles seem to align correctly with these 'cosmic' intruders into our 'safe' world in which the norm is more of the same... There aren't too many sites following this stuff... Linda' site at www.earthfiles.com is one and www.sott.net is another that has a regular news site listing everything going on today including these 'sightings' on its webpage. There is alot of this stuff occurring if you are paying attention. It just isn't mentioned in the regular media yet and most likely won't until they start showing up everywhere in another month or so.
So far, the blueprint continues to unfold as mentioned... the collapsing economic civilization of the West or as the Bible put it the 'meek shall inherit the earth'... though that 'meek' is strength of humility and not lazy sloths seeking to sink their heads in the sands and forget the world around them. This stuff is all happening and as mentioned on some sites as if time was speeding up due to the increased crap being announced in the press about the inner going ons behind the scences of our civilization. It's all coming out of the closet and it helps bring the system down as well.... 'out with the old, in with the new'... chaos as the agent of change, and it sure helps to see it coming and why. Everything is 'warming up' for the grand finale... or so it seems increasingly everyday. Ready or not, we are 'Alice' preparing to go through 'The Looking Glass'.
Chile's Chaiten volcano spews molten rock, ash
Monica Vargas
Reuters
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:29 UTC
Chaiten Volcano
© Reuters/Cristian Brown / Intendencia Region de los Lagos/Handout
The Chaiten volcano spews a cloud of ash in Chaiten, some 1,220 km (760 miles) south of Santiago February 19, 2009.
Santiago - Chile's Chaiten volcano, which erupted spectacularly last year, spewed a vast cloud of ash as well as gas and molten rock on Thursday in a partial collapse of its cone, prompting a fresh evacuation.
Television footage showed a cloud of ash billowing into the sky over the town of Chaiten, which lies about six miles from the crater.
Authorities evacuated 160 people from the area. Around 7,000 nearby residents were evacuated last year after the volcano, dormant for thousands of years, erupted. The government is planning to relocate the town.
Officials from Chile's national emergency office, Onemi, flew over the volcano and saw a kilometer-long crack in the cone of ash that has steadily grown in the crater, part of which has collapsed.
"Large quantities of gases and pyroclastic material were observed," Onemi said in a statement, adding that rains in the area combined with the ash could cause flooding in and around the town of Chaiten, located 760 miles south of the capital Santiago.
However, while there was a large volume of ash, there had been none of the earth tremors or groaning sounds that accompanied the initial eruption last year, it said.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma ordered all government personnel out of the area, and called on around 30 to 40 civilians who refuse to leave to follow suit.
"It is dangerous to stay in the area. They must leave," Perez Yoma said. "We have insisted for a long time now that it is completely irresponsible to keep living in the town."
"If they insist on staying there, they do so at their own risk," he added. "We can't keep risking public money or the lives of public workers to protect a few who don't want to face reality."
The government insists on moving the entire town. But some residents vow to stay put and are unfazed.
"I looked up and saw a tremendous column (of ash), just like in the beginning, one-and-a-half kilometers high," Claudio Chelgui, a resident who decided to return to Chaiten despite government warnings, told local radio.
"I didn't see much because it was overcast, and there was this huge column and fierce sound."
Emergency officials are exasperated.
"We have repeatedly said there is a red alert and that people should not be there, and if that had been respected, then police would not be evacuating people," an Onemi official said, asking not to be named.
He said the volcano has been in a permanent state of eruption since May of last year, when a cloud of debris soared as high as 20 miles into the air. The cloud was kept aloft for weeks by the pressure of constant eruptions, covering towns in neighboring Argentina with volcanic ash.
Chile's chain of volcanoes, the second-largest in the world after Indonesia, includes some 2,000 -- of which 500 are potentially active.
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fair use http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNewsMolt/idUKTRE51I77H20090220?sp=true
Monica Vargas
Reuters
Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:29 UTC
Chaiten Volcano
© Reuters/Cristian Brown / Intendencia Region de los Lagos/Handout
The Chaiten volcano spews a cloud of ash in Chaiten, some 1,220 km (760 miles) south of Santiago February 19, 2009.
Santiago - Chile's Chaiten volcano, which erupted spectacularly last year, spewed a vast cloud of ash as well as gas and molten rock on Thursday in a partial collapse of its cone, prompting a fresh evacuation.
Television footage showed a cloud of ash billowing into the sky over the town of Chaiten, which lies about six miles from the crater.
Authorities evacuated 160 people from the area. Around 7,000 nearby residents were evacuated last year after the volcano, dormant for thousands of years, erupted. The government is planning to relocate the town.
Officials from Chile's national emergency office, Onemi, flew over the volcano and saw a kilometer-long crack in the cone of ash that has steadily grown in the crater, part of which has collapsed.
"Large quantities of gases and pyroclastic material were observed," Onemi said in a statement, adding that rains in the area combined with the ash could cause flooding in and around the town of Chaiten, located 760 miles south of the capital Santiago.
However, while there was a large volume of ash, there had been none of the earth tremors or groaning sounds that accompanied the initial eruption last year, it said.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma ordered all government personnel out of the area, and called on around 30 to 40 civilians who refuse to leave to follow suit.
"It is dangerous to stay in the area. They must leave," Perez Yoma said. "We have insisted for a long time now that it is completely irresponsible to keep living in the town."
"If they insist on staying there, they do so at their own risk," he added. "We can't keep risking public money or the lives of public workers to protect a few who don't want to face reality."
The government insists on moving the entire town. But some residents vow to stay put and are unfazed.
"I looked up and saw a tremendous column (of ash), just like in the beginning, one-and-a-half kilometers high," Claudio Chelgui, a resident who decided to return to Chaiten despite government warnings, told local radio.
"I didn't see much because it was overcast, and there was this huge column and fierce sound."
Emergency officials are exasperated.
"We have repeatedly said there is a red alert and that people should not be there, and if that had been respected, then police would not be evacuating people," an Onemi official said, asking not to be named.
He said the volcano has been in a permanent state of eruption since May of last year, when a cloud of debris soared as high as 20 miles into the air. The cloud was kept aloft for weeks by the pressure of constant eruptions, covering towns in neighboring Argentina with volcanic ash.
Chile's chain of volcanoes, the second-largest in the world after Indonesia, includes some 2,000 -- of which 500 are potentially active.
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fair use http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNewsMolt/idUKTRE51I77H20090220?sp=true
Alaska: Okmok Volcano warning level raised to yellow
KUCB News
Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:40 UTC
Unalaska - The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the warning level for Okmok to yellow, or advisory, on Monday after a series of seismic bursts that lasted for six hours. The tremors repeated again Wednesday but have since subsided. AVO coordinating scientist Steve McNutt said these seismic signals could mean anything.
"Signals like this sometimes precede eruptions on the scale of hours to days, sometimes weeks or longer. And then sometimes the volcano just goes back to sleep," he said. "So you have to be cautious and assume that it may erupt and it could do so quickly, so that's the basis for our treating it with caution and changing the color code. On the other hand it could represent a new physical state of the volcano in which case it could do something different and then go back to sleep."
Okmok erupted very suddenly in July but that was unusual. Its current behavior is reminiscent of the tremors between 2003 and 2005. "It kind of turned on, turned off, turned on turned off. And we may be back to that activity now," McNutt said. But if Okmok erupts again, it is likely to be a small eruption.
Mount Cleveland is also marked yellow, but this is typical. It has small eruptions up to half a dozen times per year. McNutt explained that since there is no seismic network on the island to detect minor changes, it is safer to keep the Cleveland warning at yellow most of the time.
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Volcano Erupts in Indonesia
The Straits Times
Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:11 UTC
The tallest volcano on Indonesia's Java island erupted on Friday, spewing smoke and ash high into the sky and coating a nearby town in black dust, an official said.
The 3,676-metre Mount Semeru burst into life shortly after midnight but officials said it posed no danger to people living in the area, 35 kilometres southeast of Lumajang.
'We recorded that it erupted after midnight on Friday but luckily we have had rains so the ash isn't causing serious respiration problems for the residents,' volcanologist Agus Budianto told AFP.
Winds had also helped to carry the harmful debris away from the most populated areas nearby, he said.
Mr Budianto said there had been no evacuation order but authorities were monitoring the eruption closely for signs of lethal heat clouds.
The Indonesian archipelago sits on the seismically active Pacific 'Ring of Fire' where continental plates collide, and is home to about 130 active volcanoes.
Source: Agence France-Presse
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KUCB News
Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:40 UTC
Unalaska - The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the warning level for Okmok to yellow, or advisory, on Monday after a series of seismic bursts that lasted for six hours. The tremors repeated again Wednesday but have since subsided. AVO coordinating scientist Steve McNutt said these seismic signals could mean anything.
"Signals like this sometimes precede eruptions on the scale of hours to days, sometimes weeks or longer. And then sometimes the volcano just goes back to sleep," he said. "So you have to be cautious and assume that it may erupt and it could do so quickly, so that's the basis for our treating it with caution and changing the color code. On the other hand it could represent a new physical state of the volcano in which case it could do something different and then go back to sleep."
Okmok erupted very suddenly in July but that was unusual. Its current behavior is reminiscent of the tremors between 2003 and 2005. "It kind of turned on, turned off, turned on turned off. And we may be back to that activity now," McNutt said. But if Okmok erupts again, it is likely to be a small eruption.
Mount Cleveland is also marked yellow, but this is typical. It has small eruptions up to half a dozen times per year. McNutt explained that since there is no seismic network on the island to detect minor changes, it is safer to keep the Cleveland warning at yellow most of the time.
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Volcano Erupts in Indonesia
The Straits Times
Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:11 UTC
The tallest volcano on Indonesia's Java island erupted on Friday, spewing smoke and ash high into the sky and coating a nearby town in black dust, an official said.
The 3,676-metre Mount Semeru burst into life shortly after midnight but officials said it posed no danger to people living in the area, 35 kilometres southeast of Lumajang.
'We recorded that it erupted after midnight on Friday but luckily we have had rains so the ash isn't causing serious respiration problems for the residents,' volcanologist Agus Budianto told AFP.
Winds had also helped to carry the harmful debris away from the most populated areas nearby, he said.
Mr Budianto said there had been no evacuation order but authorities were monitoring the eruption closely for signs of lethal heat clouds.
The Indonesian archipelago sits on the seismically active Pacific 'Ring of Fire' where continental plates collide, and is home to about 130 active volcanoes.
Source: Agence France-Presse
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Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts
The Sakurajima volcano in Japan has erupted again throwing debris as far as two kilometres away. An eruption had been expected following a series of smaller explosions over the weekend.
The volcano is one of Japans most active volcanoes with thousands of minor explosions reported each year.
It is not thought there was any damage caused by the latest eruption.
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Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts
The Sakurajima volcano in Japan has erupted again throwing debris as far as two kilometres away. An eruption had been expected following a series of smaller explosions over the weekend.
The volcano is one of Japans most active volcanoes with thousands of minor explosions reported each year.
It is not thought there was any damage caused by the latest eruption.
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Redoubt Volcano downgraded to yellow from orange and alert status from watch to advisory reported by Anchorage Daily News via e-mail. I think they hyped it a little too much at the beginning of its stirring, but maybe people will remember if it doesn't wait too long to become more active.
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Underwater volcano near New Zealand blows its top
Times of the Internet
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:46 UTC
An underwater volcano off New Zealand has lost more than 300 feet in height, suggesting a recent "fairly catastrophic" eruption, scientists said.
The volcano, Rumble III, is about 200 miles offshore and part of the South Kermadec Ridge. The volcanic cone rises more than 7,000 feet from the sea floor.
Cornel de Ronde, one of the chief scientists on a research ship operated by GNS, a scientific agency owned by the New Zealand government, said that the volcano has changed shape since it was mapped in 2007, The Dominion Post reported. The top of the summit cone is now almost 1,000 feet below the surface, and the 2500-foot-wide crater has almost filled in.
"This suggests there has been a major eruption that collapsed the summit cone and filled the adjacent crater," de Ronde said.
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Underwater volcano near New Zealand blows its top
Times of the Internet
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:46 UTC
An underwater volcano off New Zealand has lost more than 300 feet in height, suggesting a recent "fairly catastrophic" eruption, scientists said.
The volcano, Rumble III, is about 200 miles offshore and part of the South Kermadec Ridge. The volcanic cone rises more than 7,000 feet from the sea floor.
Cornel de Ronde, one of the chief scientists on a research ship operated by GNS, a scientific agency owned by the New Zealand government, said that the volcano has changed shape since it was mapped in 2007, The Dominion Post reported. The top of the summit cone is now almost 1,000 feet below the surface, and the 2500-foot-wide crater has almost filled in.
"This suggests there has been a major eruption that collapsed the summit cone and filled the adjacent crater," de Ronde said.
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Well, we know about Mt Redoubt having another blow in Alaska yesterday.. fair use http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_on_sc/alaska_volcano
But here's a reminder of others being affected by our 'shift' in events or whatever you want to call this transitional surge of energy... fair use http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040402317.html
But here's a reminder of others being affected by our 'shift' in events or whatever you want to call this transitional surge of energy... fair use http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040402317.html
Galapagos volcano erupts, could threaten wildlife
Galapagos volcano erupts, could threaten wildlife
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Apr 12, 8:25 AM (ET)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife.
The Galapagos National Park says La Cumbre volcano began spewing lava, gas and smoke on uninhabited Fernandina Island on Saturday after four years of inactivity.
The park says in a statement the eruption is not a threat to people living on nearby Isabela Island.
But it says lava flowing to the sea will likely affect marine and terrestrial iguanas, sea lions and other fauna.
The Galapagos are home to unique animal and plant species that became the basis for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Scientists say Fernandina is the island with the most volcanic activity in the archipelago. La Cumbre last erupted in May 2005.
(AP) In this photo released by Galapagos National Park, La Cumbre volcano erupts in Fernandina Island,...
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Galapagos volcano erupts, could threaten wildlife
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Apr 12, 8:25 AM (ET)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife.
The Galapagos National Park says La Cumbre volcano began spewing lava, gas and smoke on uninhabited Fernandina Island on Saturday after four years of inactivity.
The park says in a statement the eruption is not a threat to people living on nearby Isabela Island.
But it says lava flowing to the sea will likely affect marine and terrestrial iguanas, sea lions and other fauna.
The Galapagos are home to unique animal and plant species that became the basis for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Scientists say Fernandina is the island with the most volcanic activity in the archipelago. La Cumbre last erupted in May 2005.
(AP) In this photo released by Galapagos National Park, La Cumbre volcano erupts in Fernandina Island,...
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Colombia: Galeras volcano erupts again
Colombia Reports
Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:00 UTC
The Galeras volcano in the south Colombia Nariño department erupted again Friday, causing authorities to raise the alert level to red.
The eruption occurred Friday night, only a few hours after authorities noticed the first seimic activity within the volcano. The population living in the vicinity of the volcano, were ordered to evactuate. Some 200 people responded to that request.
Authorities reported no deaths or injuries.
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Colombia Reports
Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:00 UTC
The Galeras volcano in the south Colombia Nariño department erupted again Friday, causing authorities to raise the alert level to red.
The eruption occurred Friday night, only a few hours after authorities noticed the first seimic activity within the volcano. The population living in the vicinity of the volcano, were ordered to evactuate. Some 200 people responded to that request.
Authorities reported no deaths or injuries.
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Russia: Kamchatka volcano Shiveluch emissed a 7-km column of ash
Russia Info Centre
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:49 UTC
Kamchatka volcano Shiveluch has emissed a column of ash. Its height reaches 7 km above sea level. According to satellite observations an ash plum caused by last emission extendes 325 km southwestwards from the top of the mountain.
Shiveluch is one of the largest and most active Kamchatka volcanoes. It belongs to the Kliuchevskaya volcano group and is about 65,000 years old. Shiveluch is erupting during the last year being observated by Volcano logy Institute of Kamchatka. Volcano consists of two cones called Maliy and Bolshoy Shiveluch. Maliy Shiveluch is erupting now. The mountain grows constantly because of volcanic materials rising from the depths throughout crater.
In addition to the huge size and high degree of activity Shiveluch is the one that has had the most violent eruptions. Catastrophic eruptions took place in 1854 and 1956, when a large part of the lava dome collapsed and created a devastating debris avalanche. The nearest settlement from the volcano is Kljuchi. It is situated in 50 km from the mountain. The settlement is small enough to evacuate the people rapidly if Shiveluch would try to surpass itself.
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Russia Info Centre
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:49 UTC
Kamchatka volcano Shiveluch has emissed a column of ash. Its height reaches 7 km above sea level. According to satellite observations an ash plum caused by last emission extendes 325 km southwestwards from the top of the mountain.
Shiveluch is one of the largest and most active Kamchatka volcanoes. It belongs to the Kliuchevskaya volcano group and is about 65,000 years old. Shiveluch is erupting during the last year being observated by Volcano logy Institute of Kamchatka. Volcano consists of two cones called Maliy and Bolshoy Shiveluch. Maliy Shiveluch is erupting now. The mountain grows constantly because of volcanic materials rising from the depths throughout crater.
In addition to the huge size and high degree of activity Shiveluch is the one that has had the most violent eruptions. Catastrophic eruptions took place in 1854 and 1956, when a large part of the lava dome collapsed and created a devastating debris avalanche. The nearest settlement from the volcano is Kljuchi. It is situated in 50 km from the mountain. The settlement is small enough to evacuate the people rapidly if Shiveluch would try to surpass itself.
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Scientist says volcanic eruption in Congo imminent
Scientist says volcanic eruption in Congo imminent
May 7, 4:58 PM (ET)
By EDDY ISANGO
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Scientists found evidence of intense volcanic activity - including tremors, pools of lava and plumes of smoke - at two volcanoes near a major city in eastern Congo, and said some residents had fled for fear of an eruption.
The volcanoes in the central African nation could be about to erupt, threatening Goma, which has a population of more than half a million people, scientists said Thursday. They made their observations on visits to the two volcanic peaks of Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira.
"The eruption could be tomorrow, or the day after - or at any other time," said Dieudonne Wafula, the head of Goma's Volcanological Observatory.
The Nyiragongo crater is only 11 miles (18 kilometers) north of Lake Kivu, where Goma is located. Wafula estimates that 1.3 million people are threatened by the two volcanoes, including the residents of Goma, the villages surrounding it and the inhabitants of Gisenyi, located across the Rwandan border.
"The villagers living near Nyiragongo have already left their villages after they saw the volcano shake today. They thought it was already erupting," Wafula said.
He said government agencies and Red Cross workers were making preparations, although the country's infrastructure has been destroyed by decades of civil war.
Nyiragongo is listed as one of the eight most dangerous volcanoes in the world and its lava can flow at up to 24 miles (40 kilometers) per hour, according to Wafula.
The crater last erupted in 2002, destroying about a fifth of the residential areas of Goma, the provincial capital of Congo's North Kivu province. About 100 people died as lava flows as deep as 10 feet (3 meters) overtook parts of the city.
Nyamulagira erupted later the same year, shooting plumes of lava 300 feet (91 meters) into the air, but without threatening Goma.
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Scientist says volcanic eruption in Congo imminent
May 7, 4:58 PM (ET)
By EDDY ISANGO
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Scientists found evidence of intense volcanic activity - including tremors, pools of lava and plumes of smoke - at two volcanoes near a major city in eastern Congo, and said some residents had fled for fear of an eruption.
The volcanoes in the central African nation could be about to erupt, threatening Goma, which has a population of more than half a million people, scientists said Thursday. They made their observations on visits to the two volcanic peaks of Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira.
"The eruption could be tomorrow, or the day after - or at any other time," said Dieudonne Wafula, the head of Goma's Volcanological Observatory.
The Nyiragongo crater is only 11 miles (18 kilometers) north of Lake Kivu, where Goma is located. Wafula estimates that 1.3 million people are threatened by the two volcanoes, including the residents of Goma, the villages surrounding it and the inhabitants of Gisenyi, located across the Rwandan border.
"The villagers living near Nyiragongo have already left their villages after they saw the volcano shake today. They thought it was already erupting," Wafula said.
He said government agencies and Red Cross workers were making preparations, although the country's infrastructure has been destroyed by decades of civil war.
Nyiragongo is listed as one of the eight most dangerous volcanoes in the world and its lava can flow at up to 24 miles (40 kilometers) per hour, according to Wafula.
The crater last erupted in 2002, destroying about a fifth of the residential areas of Goma, the provincial capital of Congo's North Kivu province. About 100 people died as lava flows as deep as 10 feet (3 meters) overtook parts of the city.
Nyamulagira erupted later the same year, shooting plumes of lava 300 feet (91 meters) into the air, but without threatening Goma.
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Second eruption rattles Colombia's Galeras volcano
Mon Jun 8, 2009 11:25am EDT
BOGOTA, June 8 (Reuters) - Colombia's Galeras volcano erupted on Monday for the second time in 24 hours, showering villages in the surrounding area with ash, but causing no damage or injuries, authorities said.
"An eruption of explosive nature has been registered," the national geological institute Ingeominas said in a statement.
No damage was reported from an eruption on Sunday, but authorities ordered 8,000 residents to evacuate the area. Residents often stay in their homes even though Ingeominas puts the zone on alert, warning of more eruptions.
No immediate impact was reported on the country's coffee crops, a spokesman for the national coffee federation said.
An eruption of the volcano, located near the Ecuadorean border, killed 10 people in 1993.
Galeras, which has registered minor eruptions in recent years, is closely observed because of the threat it poses to nearby populations. Eight eruptions have rattled the volcano so far this year.
(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta in Bogota)
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Mon Jun 8, 2009 11:25am EDT
BOGOTA, June 8 (Reuters) - Colombia's Galeras volcano erupted on Monday for the second time in 24 hours, showering villages in the surrounding area with ash, but causing no damage or injuries, authorities said.
"An eruption of explosive nature has been registered," the national geological institute Ingeominas said in a statement.
No damage was reported from an eruption on Sunday, but authorities ordered 8,000 residents to evacuate the area. Residents often stay in their homes even though Ingeominas puts the zone on alert, warning of more eruptions.
No immediate impact was reported on the country's coffee crops, a spokesman for the national coffee federation said.
An eruption of the volcano, located near the Ecuadorean border, killed 10 people in 1993.
Galeras, which has registered minor eruptions in recent years, is closely observed because of the threat it poses to nearby populations. Eight eruptions have rattled the volcano so far this year.
(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta in Bogota)
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Ash plumes from Russian volcano prompt Air Canada travel advisory
The Canadian Press
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:09 UTC
Vancover, B.C. - A remote volcano on Russia's central Kuril Islands is affecting air travel between Vancouver and Asia.
Air Canada has issued an advisory warning that its flights between Vancouver and Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong could be disrupted by volcanic activity at Sarychev Peak.
The airline says weather conditions could be affecting the volcano in the North Pacific Ocean and delays or cancellations are expected in the coming days.
Air Canada says impact on its Toronto-Asia flights is expected to be minimal.
Sarychev Peak belched ash plumes on June 12, spreading clouds of volcanic material over several hundred kilometres to the northwest and southeast.
Eruptions have been recorded at Sarychev Peak for more than 200 years, ranging from relatively calm lava flows to explosive blasts.
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The Canadian Press
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:09 UTC
Vancover, B.C. - A remote volcano on Russia's central Kuril Islands is affecting air travel between Vancouver and Asia.
Air Canada has issued an advisory warning that its flights between Vancouver and Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong could be disrupted by volcanic activity at Sarychev Peak.
The airline says weather conditions could be affecting the volcano in the North Pacific Ocean and delays or cancellations are expected in the coming days.
Air Canada says impact on its Toronto-Asia flights is expected to be minimal.
Sarychev Peak belched ash plumes on June 12, spreading clouds of volcanic material over several hundred kilometres to the northwest and southeast.
Eruptions have been recorded at Sarychev Peak for more than 200 years, ranging from relatively calm lava flows to explosive blasts.
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