I herd on bbc news 24 at 6am gmt that a volcano in indonesia hade begun to erupt

Gary

Indonesia Volcano Triggers Evacuations

Friday , July 28, 2006





MANADO, Indonesia — Thousands of villagers were evacuated after a volcano on an island in eastern Indonesia started spewing lava and hot clouds, officials said Friday. There were no reports of casualties.

Mount Karangetang, one of the country's most active mountains, has been rumbling for weeks.

Lava and hot ash avalanched 750 yards down the volcano's slopes on Thursday, its second eruption since July 17, said Saut Simatupang, chief researcher at the government's volcanology agency.

Nearly 4,000 people were evacuated from five villages, said Iskandar Gobel, a North Sulawesi provincial official, and police in the area said more would likely leave in coming days.

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

Karangetan is on Siau, part of the Sulawesi island chain, which has not been affected by a recent string of natural disasters in the country.

A massive earthquake off Java triggered a tsunami earlier this month that left 600 dead and a temblor on the same island in May killed 5,800. Mount Merapi, also on Java, has seen heightened activity in recent months.

from: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_st...,206038,00.html

Thanks for that LF2000 more signs being given


Gary

Indonesia... AGAIN! When exactly did the volcano start acting up? (what date?)

Mount Rainier did a little shaking tonight.

This is a different volcano starting to act up. Mount Karangetang . Mt Merapei has been threatening since April.

Also to note that the Phillipines have 2 volcano's that are threatening to erupt.

And to note even further concerning Indonesia.


Indonesian Province Embraces Islamic Law
The Perfidious NY Times ^ | August 1, 2006 | JANE PERLEZ

Posted on 08/01/2006 5:37:50 PM PDT by neverdem

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Across this most religious of Indonesia’s provinces, brown uniformed policemen in black wagons enforce Shariah, or Islamic law. They haul unmarried couples into precincts and arrest people for drinking or gambling. Increasingly, many of the cases are pushed to the ultimate conclusion, public canings at mosques in front of pumped-up crowds.

In mid-July, a 27-year-old man sentenced to 40 lashes fainted on the seventh stroke of a rattan cane from a hooded man in the yard of a mosque here in the provincial capital.

The caning was televised nationally, with an announcer reporting that the man, who had been arrested for drinking at a beachside stall, would receive the remainder of his punishment once he had recovered.

Battered by the Asian tsunami 19 months ago, Aceh is undergoing a profound transformation that is likely to have considerable impact on the nature of Islam in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country.

For centuries Indonesia has been known for the open-minded, sometimes freewheeling, interpretation of its dominant religion. That is changing as moderate Muslims find themselves under siege from more orthodox proponents, and as the moderates are hesitant to push back.

Aceh, where Islam has always been more rigorously observed, is the first of Indonesia’s 33 provinces to put Shariah law onto the books. Special Shariah courts established to mete out punishments have been operating for a year.

Now, some of Indonesia’s other provincial governments are looking to Aceh as a model for how they might more formalize Shariah laws already on the books. More than a score of townships across Indonesia have introduced Shariah-like laws that fall short of the precision of the religious laws here.

The 1945 Indonesian Constitution is generally considered a secular document. But in a signal of the current mood in Indonesia, leading...

One person killed and 60 others missing in Ecuador following volcano eruption

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/2...or-volcano.html

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) The mayor of a nearby town has said the eruption of the Tungurahua volcano left one dead and 60 missing.


Indonesia, Ecuador, ......

God will take care of His people!

A mass of earthquakes, about 37, have happened around the Virgin Island area, 18 around Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

That is about 55 in one area. A new ridge is developing to the west of Cuba or because Cuba has been given permission to start drilling for oil in the Gulf, they may have started with some underground explosion a little farther from the Gulf of Mexico.