During the past 1,500 years, the Younger Oshima Group has experienced 12 major eruptions with a total volume of erupted magma of >0.6 km3 dense rock equivalent (DRE; Nakamura 1964).
Within days, it can install monitoring equipment, detect magma flowing to the surface and forecast eruptions with reasonable accuracy.
It is known to have had at least six eruptions, with the penultimate one occurring almost 500 years ago.
Shipp, appearing here as a soloist, can balance his post-Cecil Taylor keyboard eruptions with pools of lyric calm, or, depending on his mood, not.
"People have come to me and reported eruptions with shallow clouds and lightning and in that case there has to be another explanation," he admits.
On his own, Shipp is capable of balancing his post-Cecil Taylor keyboard eruptions with lyric calm — or, depending on his mood, not.
But don't think he shortchanges aggressive moments, like the brass eruptions, with their startling trills, that heighten tension in the council chamber scene.
Lack of snow is rarely a problem, and the terrain at both ski areas is treeless, thanks to past eruptions, with long, wide runs, some of which follow former lava flows.
Some climate researchers have suggested that mimicking the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions with massive injections of sulphate particles into the atmosphere may be necessary in an emergency if global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels continue to rise unabated.
Eruptions with M≥5.0 are named.
It occurs in eruptions with mixed explosive and effusive behavior.
