[TimeStar] Volcanic gases reaching Australia

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Last fall, when the TimeStar forecast volcanic eruptions in New Guinea, the Manam Volcano heated up and began erupting.  New Guinea is an important area because it is subsiding, and nobody knows why.  Several volcanoes in New Guinea have continued to erupt since the 9.0 Sumatra quake in December.  It looks like the crunching of tectonic plates from the Sumatra quake is putting more pressure on the Australian plate boundary where New Guinea sits.  

Of course, it is possible that the forces that are causing New Guinea to subside put pressure on the Indian plate and resulted in the Sumatra quake.  In any event, the two areas -- Sumatra and New Guinea -- have been extremely active since last fall.  We'll see more from these areas in March and April when a new sequence of quakes begins that will also affect Vanuatu and Fiji.  

The carbon dioxide from Manam that is now reaching Australia is what I want to point out in this post.  This is an important point for another discussion that we will have soon.  Volcanic gases have played a key role in the planet's past that will ultimately explain events that still affect us.  Without being too cryptic, please note the movement of volcanic gases from New Guinea to Australia as a reality scene on volcanic eruptions.

Krsanna

Manam Volcano Gases Reach Australia 
Sunday 13th February 2005 

Volcanic gases from an eruption of Manam volcano have reached northern Australia. Sulphur dioxide clouds have drifted 1300 km from Papua New Guinea to Arnhem Land in Northern Territory. Last month a large eruption at Manam volcano released 50,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide. The eruption of Manam volcano was the largest in the world in the past year. 

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