# VOLCANO! Sumatra/Indonesia Gets It In The Neck AGAIN! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898 "2005-04-18T15:05:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/1 "2005-04-18T15:05:08Z")
> **[Top alert: 25,000 evacuate as volcano comes alive](https://www.smh.com.au/world/top-alert-25-000-evacuate-as-volcano-comes-alive-20050414-gdl4dd.html)** 25,00 people on the run. OG! The whole country must be punch-drunk on tragedy by now! :eek: ☹ :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/2 "2005-04-18T15:12:39Z")
Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, oh my! What in great Og’s name is going _on_ over there? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/3 "2005-04-18T15:18:01Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, oh my! > What in great Og’s name is going _on_ over there? :eek: It’s what’s going on _under_ there, that’s the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/4 "2005-04-18T15:26:05Z")
That teutonic plate is breaking up. That area of the world is probably in for long-term woes. [Study: Break-up of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate](http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_2033.html) > [@](#): > > “The Indian Ocean quakes are, in effect, leading to the active rupture of the Indo-Australian plate into separate Indian and Australian plates. This new research provides us with important information about the stresses that are driving this drawn out tectonic plate divorce.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/5 "2005-04-18T15:28:23Z")
The link requires registration, so I haven’t read the story. The thing about living in the Ring of Fire, is that you have to put up with earthquakes and volcanos. They’re not unusual, but they sure can be a pain in the arse! (Actually, I quite enjoyed the earthquakes in SoCal.) When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, it wiped out about 36,000 people; most of them with the tsunamis it created. As it happens, Krakatoa is building up again. The new island is called Anak Krakatau. No doubt that eventually ‘The Son of Krakatoa’ will have a similar catastrophic eruption to Krakatoa’s – only this time there are a _lot_ more people in its way. [sub]Incidentally, the 1969 movie got it wrong. Krakatoa is actually _west_ of Java. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/6 "2005-04-18T15:29:49Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > That **teutonic** plate is breaking up. That one’s in Northern Europe, innit? 😉😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/7 "2005-04-18T15:30:43Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > That teutonic plate is breaking up. Won’t somebody _please_ think of the Aryans! ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/8 "2005-04-18T15:31:50Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > The thing about living in the Ring of Fire, is that you have to put up with earthquakes and volcanos. They’re not unusual, but they sure can be a pain in the arse! (Actually, I quite enjoyed the earthquakes in SoCal.) Except that Sumatra, of course, is on the _Indian_ Ocean whereas the “Ring of Fire” refers to the _Pacific_ Ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/9 "2005-04-18T15:32:05Z")
Serves me right for not previewing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/10 "2005-04-18T15:55:36Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#): > > Except that Sumatra, of course, is on the _Indian_ Ocean whereas the “Ring of Fire” refers to the _Pacific_ Ocean. True; but it’s right there where the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea come together. [This site](http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire) depicts the ‘Ring of Fire’ as including Java. [Map](http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Image:Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.png). ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/11 "2005-04-18T16:22:08Z")
When I have a ring of fire, I use Preperation H. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/12 "2005-04-18T16:24:47Z")
\*I fell in to a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down and the flames went higher. And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire the ring of fire \* ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/13 "2005-04-18T16:56:25Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > True; but it’s right there where the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea come together. [This site](http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire) depicts the ‘Ring of Fire’ as including Java. [Map](http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Image:Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.png). Java isn’t Sumatra. But you knew that. 😉 I’ve never seen the Ring of Fire depicted as extending as far west as Sumatra. But I note that the map you linked to seems to have been ripped-off from the [USGS website](http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/fire.html), so I guess they should know what they’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/14 "2005-04-18T17:16:15Z")
Me either. That map looks less like _The Ring of Fire_ and more like _The Duck of Fi…_ err… _The Duck of Death!_. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/15 "2005-04-18T18:12:33Z")
Funny, that map shows a big red dot labeled “Challenger Deep”. Haven’t I heard of that before? For about 20 minutes, in 1960? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/16 "2005-04-18T18:16:01Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Won’t somebody _please_ think of the Aryans! Yeah, they have sweaters to knit! ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/17 "2005-04-18T21:02:03Z")
And another volcano erupting on [Comoros](http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8213226) ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/18 "2005-04-18T21:44:21Z")
I wonder what continuing affect all these tragedies are going to have on the psyches of the people. ☹ Between the volcanoes, tsunamies, and earthquakes, it must feel like they’re being targeted by an angry god. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/19 "2005-04-18T22:11:29Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Between the volcanoes, tsunamies, and earthquakes, it must feel like they’re being targeted by an angry god. \*\*GOD \*\* **slap** **IS** **slap** **PISSED** **slap** But really, those poor people out there are really having a bad year. I bet whatever money Indonesia was getting from tourism is going to drop down to absolute zero thanks to all these natural disasters. When I heard about the volcano last week, I made another little charity donation. Not a whole lot, but there’s not much else I can do. A [link](http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=664974) for those who don’t want to register at the other site. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898/20 "2005-04-19T00:50:16Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > [This site](http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire) depicts the ‘Ring of Fire’ as including Java. [Map](http://encyclopedia.lockergnome.com/s/b/Image:Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.png). Depends. Did that cup of Java come from a McDonalds? 😉 > [@Homebrew](#): > > That teutonic plate is breaking up. That’s what happens when Thor starts swingin’ that hammer a bit carelessly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/volcano-sumatra-indonesia-gets-it-in-the-neck-again/299898.md?page=2)