When will The Big One explode ???

[kopiuncle]

JAKARTA (AFP) - Thousands of villagers fled on Sunday after a volcano erupted on Indonesia's Sumatra island spewing rocks and red-hot ash onto surrounding villages, officials said.

Mount Sinabung in Karo district, North Sumatra province, erupted violently before dawn.

"More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from areas within a three-kilometre radius of the volcano, and they are all safe," Asren Nasution, the head of North Sumatra disaster agency, told AFP.

Five halls normally used for traditional cultural ceremonies had been converted into shelters for those displaced.

 

[kopiuncle]

Recent seismic events in the vicinity of the Toba supervolcano have given rise to a great deal of speculation, much of it apocalyptic.

When will Lake Toba erupt again....???

North Sumatra, like the rest of Indonesia, is a seismically active zone, and the recent quakes there are hardly unusual. It’s a subduction zone - So will Toba erupt again? Very probably. Will it erupt in our lifetimes? Very probably not. It certainly could, but we currently see no indication that it is getting ready to do so. One or two nearby quakes in a subduction zone do not a super-eruption make...But again, we really don't know ....It could happen in our lifetime.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

i don't think we'll see Toba erupt within our lifetime..............

maybe Anak Krakatoa got chance.............hopefully will be as awesome as the original Krakatoa........

 

[kopiuncle]

I think the whole Indonesian region is unstable and we never know when Anak Krakatoa will give way. Certainly, Singapore will be affected in some way.

 

[winnipegjets]

I think the whole Indonesian region is unstable and we never know when Anak Krakatoa will give way. Certainly, Singapore will be affected in some way.

Sinkapore's land mass become bigger as a result?

 

[kopiuncle]

Sinkapore's land mass become bigger as a result?

Most likely we will be absorbed into another land mass or we become a massive lake....