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...save lives, 90 scientists from around the world gathered for a U.N.-sponsored conference in the southwestern Colombian city of Pasto. New techniques for detecting pre- eruption changes in the composition of vented gases had shown theoretical promise, and the scientists hoped to test them on Galeras, an active volcano several miles to the west that had not erupted since July 1992. Once again though, the insights of science were employed too late to be effective...
...morning of Jan. 14, Stanley Williams, a U.S. volcanologist from Arizona State University, led a team of nine other scientists to the 13,680- ft. summit. Williams stayed on the rim and watched as two colleagues clambered down ropes toward the volcano's inner cone -- Nestor Garcia, a Colombian, to set up a temperature probe; Igor Menyailov, a Russian, to sample gases coming out of vents. Williams and Menyailov, who had taught himself English by listening to Elvis Presley records, had been friends since they first met in 1982 on a volcano watch in Nicaragua. "Igor was excited because...
...volcano seemed to take a big breath, first sucking in air, then exploding," said a Colombian tourist who survived unhurt. Garcia and Menyailov died in an instant in the 600 degreesC blast of toxic gases. On the western rim of the cone, British geologist Geoffrey Brown and two Colombian colleagues were also incinerated as gas and heat spurted upward...
PREDICTING VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IS A NOTORIOUSLY inexact science, and no one knows that better than people along the "ring of fire" that extends through Southeast Asia. Without warning last week the Philippines' Mayon volcano blew up, killing at least 68 and driving thousands from their homes...
Rymer cautions that gravity data should be used only with more conventional forecasting methods. Moreover, the technique can be dangerous, since researchers often climb into a volcano to take gravity readings. Last month Rymer's colleague Geoff Brown died when Colombia's Galeras volcano blew just as he was setting up his equipment...