Word: volcanologist
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...have struck without specific warning, as in Italy last week, and in Algeria last October. Only a year and a half after the Haicheng temblor, an 8.2 quake near Tangshan, 90 miles southeast of Peking, caught seismologists by surprise and killed as many as 650,000. Says Polish-born Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff: "At the present level of research, nature almost always surprises...
...form a dome or cap over the vents. Eventually the dome should become massive enough to plug up the volcano like a cork in a bottle. But the corking process may be interrupted by repeated explosions, as pressure builds up underneath and ruptures the newly formed dome. Admits U.S.G.S. Volcanologist Charles Zablocki: "We are going to school on this...
Moreover, as scientists look into space, they are finding that volcanism helped shape the moon, Mars, Venus and smaller bodies, like the Jovian moon Io. Says Volcanologist Martin Prinz of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "I can't imagine an earthlike planet without volcanic activity...
...roadblock into the safety zone, the island was shaken by an earthquake that measured 4 points on the Richter scale. There were reports that the volcano might erupt at any moment with the force of a 350-kiloton nuclear explosion. The next day Professor Robert Brousse, 47, a burly volcanologist from the University of Paris, flew in an Alouette III helicopter over the volcano to see if it had begun to erupt. "We were over the sea when suddenly the cloud into which we were about to fly turned out to be a cloud of ash from the volcano...
Although the increased emission of gases from Etna in recent years gave scientists some hint of impending trouble, they are still unable to predict eruptions with any accuracy. As a result, they concentrate on trying to minimize damage once the lava flows. Belgian Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, whose asbestos-suited sorties into fuming craters round the globe have earned him the sobriquet "The Inferno Detective," has suggested bombing Etna to test methods for diverting the lava flow from villages. The Italians shrugged off the idea. It could raise a Solomonic question: Whose land should be spared and whose should be ruined...