Saturday, February 16, 2008

Dangerous natural Disaster


Burst of Volcano:
Volcano eruption is one of the natural disaster, it allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface.Volcanoes can be caused by "mantle plumes". These so-called "hot spots" , for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hot spot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons.
volcano as caused many disaster. The word volcano comes from the Roman god of fire, Vulcan. Vulcan was said to have had a forge (a place to melt and shape iron) on Volcano, an active volcano on the Lipari Islands in Italy. The volcano, known as Barren 1, is located some 135 kilometers (80 miles)northeast of the capital Port Blair, and last erupted in 1996.
It runs about 150 fathoms deep under the sea and usually gives off smoke. M.M. Mukherjee of the Geological Survey of India told AFP the volcano presents little real danger.

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