UN 25 Guatos Die on Volcanic Eruption - No consensus among witch doctors on the cause yet

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ption-kills-25-injures-hundreds-idUSKCN1IZ0Y7

So ealier today it was raining sand out there. And that's pretty fucking cool.

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Also, 25 people died.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - An estimated 25 people, including at least three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano in more than four decades, officials said.

Volcan de Fuego, whose name means “Volcano of Fire”, spewed an 8-kilometer (5-mile) stream of red hot lava and belched a thick plume of black smoke and ash that rained onto the capital and other regions.

The charred bodies of victims laid on the steaming, ashen remnants of a pyroclastic flow as rescuers attended to badly injured victims in the aftermath of the eruption.

It was the 3,763-meter (12,346-feet) volcano’s second eruption this year.

“It’s a river of lava that overflowed its banks and affected the El Rodeo village. There are injured, burned and dead people,” Sergio Cabanas, the general secretary of Guatemala’s CONRED national disaster management agency, said on radio.

CONRED said the number of dead had risen to 25, from an earlier estimate of seven, including a CONRED employee. Some 3,100 people have been evacuated from the area
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(Jesus Fucking Christ, get a decent translator. Call it "Fire Volcano" or leave it as Volcán de Fuego, calling it Fuego Volcano is fucking retarded.)

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So legit question, are those people just covered in ash? Or are they like those people in Pompeii that were turned instantly into pottery?

I ask because in the picture there seems to be something on one guy's face; like an air mask or something. And then the other guy has his arms up.... but that could have been instant pottery...
 
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4Macie said:
So legit question, are those people just covered in ash? Or are they like those people in Pompeii that were turned instantly into pottery?

I ask because in the picture there seems to be something on one guy's face; like an air mask or something. And then the other guy has his arms up.... but that could have been instant pottery...
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I think it’s a burned dead body. The Pompeii thinh happened over time being buried.
 
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I hope I'm wrong but I suspect the death toll will end up in at least the triple digits, Guatemala is a poor and mountainous country with villages scattered all over the place, some of which are now almost certainly inaccessible by road and it may be months before they'll have emergency workers in the most remote villages to finish counting the dead.

Volcanic ash is a horrible way to die, it turns into what is essentially cement in your lungs.
 
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4Macie said:
So legit question, are those people just covered in ash? Or are they like those people in Pompeii that were turned instantly into pottery?
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It's a mixed bag, they're burned to different degrees under the ash and some of those burns might not have been lethal on their own (assuming they wouldn't die from asphyxiation).

There's a particularly unsettling video about rescue workers pulling a child out from the ash, and you can tell how badly burned the poor kid is because his corpse isn't limp at all, he keeps the same posture even though he's pulled from an arm.
 
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Goofy Logic said:
There has been lots of volcanic activity for the last couple of years. is it just a reporting trend or is the earth waking up to swallow us all?
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Its just the reporting. There are ALWAYS volcanos going off in Indonesia and/or South America and/or Iceland or somewhere. Often killing people.

I lived in Indonesia for three years and there was always a volcano going off. People are always dying and then their families move back, rebuild the village, get blown up again ten years later. Very interesting. I remember there was an article about Merapi Gunung (an active volcano) which kept going off every couple of years, killing hundreds each time as people insisted on living on its slopes as the soil is so fertile. Some people eventually gave up on living on the mountain and their local religion because no matter how many chickens they sacrificed it just kept killing them all.

Oh, and hey I just checked and its going off again.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/05/11/mount-merapi-erupts-residents-told-to-evacuate.html
 
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4Macie said:
air mask or something.
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Those are triage tags, which are used also as "toe tags" or body I.d info in a mass casualties incident.

The body on the left also has blood all over the lower face, probably from being cooked alive and the body not able to release the pressure due to the hardened ash shell. The mouth was probably the only exit for the bodies liquid as it expanded.
 
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A Name But Backwards said:
Those are triage tags, which are used also as "toe tags" or body I.d info in a mass casualties incident.

The body on the left also has blood all over the lower face, probably from being cooked alive and the body not able to release the pressure due to the hardened ash shell. The mouth was probably the only exit for the bodies liquid as it expanded.
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Holy crap.

I live on the opposite of a volcano (cold and ice) so I only know what school taught me. Which wasn’t this.

Because this is happening to small mountain villages, are we ever going to know a real number? I feel like if a town gets hit by lava, we wouldn’t be able to get to them for a bit to count the dead. And are dead even left after lava gets them?
 
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Holy crap.

I live on the opposite of a volcano (cold and ice) so I only know what school taught me. Which wasn’t this.

Because this is happening to small mountain villages, are we ever going to know a real number? I feel like if a town gets hit by lava, we wouldn’t be able to get to them for a bit to count the dead. And are dead even left after lava gets them?
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Although death by geology is obviously one of the worse ways to go out, the dead are definitely left afterward; we can count the dead from Pompeii better than we can count the dead from lesser disasters that happened 5 years ago. The cool thing about being burned to death by liquid/particulate stone is that the shell of stone which kills you also happens to preserve your general appearance for years.
 
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Derp Potato said:
Who would've thought living near a fiery mountain of death that likes to explode on occasion would be a bad thing?

I'm looking at you, Hawaii.
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Hawaii is the smartest place regarding it. I think up to today they had one person badly burned by a lava fountain, otherwise they managed to get everyone away and pay attention. Now if you want some examples of when things will get ugly? Mexico City, Portland and Seattle. Yeah them burbs be sitting on some BIG candles.
 
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Goofy Logic said:
There has been lots of volcanic activity for the last couple of years. is it just a reporting trend or is the earth waking up to swallow us all?
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The "Ring of Fire" is more active this year or so. But we do tend to just not here when a lot of the more remote volcano's go off. It's not some doomsday scenario. The earth's orbit around the Sun isn't absolutely round over time. On those cycles when the earth drifts a hair closer geologic activity along certain major fault lines seemingly picks up. At least that is one current theory.
 
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Red Sun said:
Although death by geology is obviously one of the worse ways to go out, the dead are definitely left afterward; we can count the dead from Pompeii better than we can count the dead from lesser disasters that happened 5 years ago. The cool thing about being burned to death by liquid/particulate stone is that the shell of stone which kills you also happens to preserve your general appearance for years.
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Pompeii is also why we know so much about Ancient Roman Culture - while it burned everything alive, the volcanic ash preserved a lot of structures and other stuff that would have otherwise deteriorated. We even know what kind of graffiti they wrote.
 
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RodgerDodger said:
The "Ring of Fire" is more active this year or so. But we do tend to just not here when a lot of the more remote volcano's go off. It's not some doomsday scenario. The earth's orbit around the Sun isn't absolutely round over time. On those cycles when the earth drifts a hair closer geologic activity along certain major fault lines seemingly picks up. At least that is one current theory.
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It seems to do the same for the moons of Jupiter in miniature so it seems to work out as a theory.


III.5.1 (House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door); 7716: To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy.

III.5.3 (on the wall in the street); 8898: Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

Seems like they invoked Jupiter when someone did a Pajeet in their door lol,
 
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It seems to do the same for the moons of Jupiter in miniature so it seems to work out as a theory.


III.5.1 (House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door); 7716: To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy.

III.5.3 (on the wall in the street); 8898: Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

Seems like they invoked Jupiter when someone did a Pajeet in their door lol,
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Damn you kids! Get Offna' Mah' Lawnnnn!!! I mean can you imagine if you were Theophilius being absolutely immortalized that way?
 
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