Volcano (kazan)

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Volcano (kazan)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Earth

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Explanation

A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.
The word volcano is derived from the name of Vulcano island off Sicily which in turn, was named after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.



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kazan 火山 volcano
kazanbai 火山灰 volcanic ash


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アイスランドの火山噴火
エイヤフィヤトラヨークトル氷河



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Southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier began erupting for the second time in a month on Wednesday, sending ash several miles (kilometers) into the air.

Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland on Friday as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars.

Polish officials worried that the ash cloud could threaten the arrival of world leaders for Sunday's state funeral for President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria in the southern city of Krakow.

The air traffic agency Eurocontrol said almost two-thirds of Europe's flights were canceled Friday, as air space remained largely closed in Britain and across large chunks of north and central Europe.

The agency said about 16,000 of Europe's usual 28,000 daily flights were canceled Friday — twice as many as were canceled a day earlier.

more in the Yahoo News of April 17
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_volcano


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Passengers face further disruption after flight restrictions were extended until 1300 BST on Sunday as the danger from Icelandic volcanic ash continues.

Prof Brian Golding, head of forecasting research at the Met Office, said it was likely the volcanic cloud would remain over the UK for several days.
"We need a change of wind direction that stays changed for several days and there is no sign of that in the immediate future,"

BBC NEWS Saturday, 17 April
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8627545.stm


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April 19
Flights are still disrupted, Japanese are stranded, the mozarella (of all things) is running out of supplies, so are cancer medicine and fresh fish from the mediterranean.
Japanese worry about the travel during Golden Week, which starts on April 29. Many consider cancelling their trips to Europe, just to be safe.



April 20
Eyjafjallajokull, that spitty big volcano in Iceland, continues to ground air travel throughout Europe today, with new eruptions and a new cloud of ash aimed toward the suffering Continental across the Pond.

According to The Met Office, an official advisory department in Britain, 'Eruptions from Eyjafjallajökull have continued through today with debris being emitted up to [13,100 to 16,400 feet] for much of the time.

The Met Office continued, 'Weather patterns continue to blow areas of ash towards the UK.'
Although airports were supposed to be open throughout the UK today, this new development from Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland meant that in the United Kingdom, only Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Inverness airports in Scotland were open, while in England, flights were only going in and out of Newcastle.
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978185954



April 21
Hundreds of flights remain cancelled at Britain's airports despite a lifting of the UK airspace ban which has allowed some passengers to land at Heathrow for the first time in six days.

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quiet skies
all over Europe . . .
nature calls

Gabi Greve


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This news clip on a UK airport inspired my haiku:

Kites and joggers on empty runway
Staff at Bristol Airport have made use of the empty runway to fly kites and run the airstrip.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8625564.stm



empty runway
airline staff practise for marathon
in the spring sun


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This news item on the uncertain wait for the Polish State Funeral inspried the next:

Family insists ash must not cast cloud over state funeralPremium Article !
Date: 17 April 2010
THE family of late Polish president Lech Kaczynski has urged that his state funeral be held tomorrow in Krakow as planned, despite fears that the volcanic ash cloud emanating from Iceland may keep some world leaders from attending.
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Family-insists-ash-must-not.6234557.jp


Poland -
President and wife lie in state
under pall of ash cloud

Sonam Chhoki
Bhutan, April 17, 2010

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the black cloud
pushing from Iceland pushes
up our taxes

dick pettit
WHCsenryu


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crescent moon
the belly of Iceland
straight up

Nicole Hyde
Kigo Hotline


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. . . from WHCitalian


nell'aereoporto
un vuoto a perdere
sopra la pista

in the airport
a non-returnable bottle
on the runaway

Tarquinio Brodo



mentre passeggio
intorno al lago penso
questo è un vulcano...

walking
all around the lake I think
this is a volcano...

Paul Anthony


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Related words

***** Vog in Hawaii (Volcanic Smog)


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