From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 07:38:48 MDT
I said previously
At 4:17 PM +0000 6/5/03, Amara Graps wrote:
>
>Greetings from Stromboli (the town, the island, and the volcano)
>
>Here I am, on this tiny island with amazingly good
>services for a population of 300. Yes, the volcano
>is smokin' ...!
>
>Last night I saw a volcano rockfall. We hiked halfway
>up the mountain (group with guide), and spent hours
>watching and listening the spectacle. At night, a volcano
>rockfall is a fiery dance; glowing boulders cascading
>down the slope- the 'music' sounds like a combination
>of waterfalls and streams, but punctuated with pops
>and roars and and low frequency rumbles. mesmorizing.
The volcanic rockfall I saw at night looked like this (photos by J. Alean)
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/photos/photo03/icons/block_sea.jpg
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/photos/photo03/icons/cloud.jpg
(the 'music' cannot be believed...)
Stromboli photos by the volcanologists:
(Note: Their thousands of photos and volcano
movies, explanations, and more can be found
at "Volcanoes of the World": http://www.stromboli.net)
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/photos/index-en.html
Click on the April-May 2002 and April 2003 links
See in particular :
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/sciara0203/index-en.html
for recent Stromboli eruption over New Years and the Tsunami
this one is a favorite of mine
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/photos/photo02/icons/mf_2002_15.jpg
Some of these (by Marco Fulle) are now postcards, distributed widely
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/sciara0203/flow-en.html
One example:
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/sciara0203/icons/s45.jpg
Another:
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/sciara0203/icons/s47.jpg
This one is my favorite Stromboli 'postcard':
http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/photos/photo02/icons/mf_2002_17.jpg
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