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Snoopy-shaped island forms after volcanic eruption
Topic Started: 1 Jan 2014, 03:28 AM (95 Views)
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Snoopy-shaped island forms after volcanic eruption

We want to go to there.

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A VOLCANIC ERUPTION in Japan has caused an island to form in what is undoubtedly the exact shape of beloved Peanuts cartoon canine, Snoopy.

Island formed just like Charlie Brown’s dog.

The uncanny landmass rose after a series of eruptions occurred 1,000 kilometres south of Toyko in the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire.

The new islet Niijima (the head) attached to existing island Nishinoshima to form the replica of Charlie Brown’s dog.

Now it really looks like it… doesn’t it?

The pup even has a collar, caused by a stretch of red sea presumed to be coloured by molten magma.

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When the mass first rose in November, volcanologists thought that it might erode.

However, further eruptions caused it to grow, and NASA observations first speculated the fusion of the two islands last week.

Well now it’s a reality, and Twitter users have already nick-named the formation ‘Snoopy Island’.

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Volcanic island eats another off Japan

By Brad Lendon, CNN
April 7, 2014

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On March 30, the Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite captured this image of the combined island.
The merged island is now slightly more than six-tenths of a mile across.

(CNN) -- One Japanese island has swallowed another.

NASA's Earth Observatory reports that Niijima island, a volcano which broke through the ocean's surface last November, has now merged with a nearby island that formed from a volcano which last erupted 40 years ago.

Niijima emerged about 500 meters (550 yards) from the older Nishinoshima in November.

Now, according to observations taken at the end of March, they are one, measuring about a kilometer (six-tenths of a mile) across.

And at its highest point, the new island is 60 meters (almost 200 feet) above sea level.

That's triple the highest point observed in December, according to the NASA report.

At its size in December, the new island was expected to last several years, according to Japanese scientists.

Because it has continued to grow, it could last much longer.

"A lot of it depends on how fast it erodes," Ken Rubin, a University of Hawaii at Manoa professor and expert in deep submarine volcanism, told CNN after the island broke the surface last year.
"Until it shuts off, it's too soon to tell."

The island sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," which stretches from the coast of Chile north to Alaska and Siberia and then south to New Zealand.

The newly merged island is about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Tokyo in the Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands.

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