A Marines Disquisition ...

On the 200 mile long Sumbawa Island (located 1600 miles North of Perth, Australia or 1200 miles East, Southeast of Jakarta - see map in link below at older mention, Feb. 28, 2006 entry), smack dab in the middle Northern portion, sits an important Volcano, Mt. Tambora. Though Krakatoa's eruption is far more famous, this volcano which erupted in 1815 ranks as ten (10 x) times LARGER than Krakatoa.

The blast was HEARD 1200 miles away....the distance between Mt. St. Helens and Albuquerque, New Mexico.   It is not clear what the island's population was in 1815, but some 12,000 Islanders were killed as a direct result of that eruption. The current population is 1,330,000. The furthest one can travel to get away from Ground Zero is about 75 miles, and still remain on the island. In August of this year the Volcano Alert system moved it from a Level I, to a Level II up grade. This month it was upgraded to a Level III.  Last time this volcano erupted, the earth experienced "The  Year With No Summer". It produced the worst famine of the 19th Century, and more than 100,000 were said to have lost their lives as a result of this eruption. The global farmer did not do well that year, and food production was bleak as a result. Canned beef or Turkey might be a good investment, Year supply of Herbal Medicines, and a GOOD water filter system that works without pressure. Seeds, non-hybrid, and tools to make a garden....  ITS YOUR SURVIVAL,  awaken or passing will not be fun.

So what is a Level III volcano warning mean?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano_warning_schemes_of_the_United_States

Compared to the 1980 Mt.St. Helens eruption, what are we talking about here? " The doomed mountain was a stratovolcano standing about 14,000 feet high. After many months of awful eruptions, it blew sky high in mid-April of 1815, injecting about 100 times as much ash and sulphur up into the Earth's atmosphere as Mt. St. Helens did in its famous 1980 explosion..... The entire upper 4,000 feet of Tambora mountain was destroyed, compared with only about 1,200 feet of Mt. St. Helens. The eruption column towered far into the stratosphere, some four times higher than commercial jets fly and more than twice as high as the eruption column of St. Helens......The death toll of Tambora will probably never been known, but the best modern estimates place the human toll at 71,000 persons dead. And Tambora Volcano IS NOT DEAD, volcanoloists tell us that it is only dormant...."


Algore, hello, anyone home, Al, you need to pay close attention here fella?
This link ranges chronologically from Feb. 3, 2000 thru last Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.
http://www.crystalinks.com/volcanoarticles.html See 7th picture as you scroll down. Every volcano produces grey gold for the Agriculture of the world. It is the best garden fertilizer money can buy. Any ash from a fire will produce a similar product.

Where are Sumbawa's Capitalist? "grey gold" is about to fall from the sky. Are ships standing by? Crate builders being hired?  Stop, it is just a glass half empty observation.  They will need all the help they can get.

This is really some scary stuff.  This small island is approx. 5,964 sq. miles (just slightly larger than the state of Connecticut and not all flat).  Where will these people move to, if this thing erupts? Those living on the mountain slope, within a 2 mile radius of the cap, have already been told (at gun point) to evacuate.