VOLCANIC ERUPTION IMMINENT
On 5th March, scientists noticed increased heat and at depth magma rising at Mt Cleotra showing an eruption of size VEI4+ realising 0.6^km more of tephra is IMMINENT.The following towns have been force evacuate within a 30 mile radius.
- Volcano
Big Knob
Hungry Knob
And over 50,000 have been evacuated.
With Cleotra being COVID free is a positive thing.
GREEN level within Volcano County is a thing requiring masks.
See my post abour Cleotra for info.
ERUPTION UPDATES
3rd May
Eruption starts when a magnitude 7.2 earthqauke occurs.
Tourists and citizens from a safe distance take videos.
While a helicopter is also filming.
The videos go viral on social media within minutes.
Explosions as large as the April 2021 eruption of La Soufriere also ranked as a VEI4 take place.
Ash rises 32km into the air and by 5th May, other 2km^ of Tephra was released (the ^km means sqaured km)
By May 7th over 6.9^km of Tephra was released, and then the eruption stopped.
The eruption in question ranked as a 5 on the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index
scale also known as the volcanic explosvity index.
Over 6^km of lava was produced, meaning if the VEI scale also counted Lava it would be rated as a level 6 eruption.
The VEI goes up to 8.
This eruption was at least 6.9x bigger than the 1980 Eruption of Mt St Helens with produced only 1.0^km of Tephra and caused the largest witnessed landslide ever.
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 9
Tiny amounts of ash has been reported in the capital over 100km away!
Mt Cleotra violently erupting