[californiadisasters] 19th Anniversary of Deadly Pyroclastic Flow

On this date in 1991 Mount Unzen near Shimabara, in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, experienced a dramatic pyroclastic flow that was many times larger in scope than any previous one up to that point of that eruption. 43 journalists and scientists, including world famous vulcanologists and volcano photographers Maurice and Katia Kafft as well as vulcanologist Harry Glicken were all overtaken and burned alive by the broiling cloud of fast-moving gases and ash.

The relevance of this event to California Disasters is quite simple: California can have these at any gray volcano which includes all our California Cascade volcanoes, most notably, Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak.

I share with you all the below video clips in memoriam to both the Kraffts as well as Heny Glicken,  who, ironically enough, had been manning the observation point at what is now Johnston Ridge at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument until the morning of May 18, 1980 when his mentor David Johnston took over to give him a break and thus inadvertently substituted his own life for Glicken's.

Check out the following video clips which are short.

This is a beautiful tribute to the Kraffts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hO381ku1u4&NR=1

This gives more background info to this story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRoTQYXwuY&feature=related

Some famous volcano footage previously taken by the Kraffts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJYKlUoczYw

And even more such: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCQ_goDcP8&feature=fvw

Check the Wikis:

Wikipedia on Mount Unzen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Unzen

Wikipedia on the Kraffts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katia_and_Maurice_Krafft

Wikipedia on Glicken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Glicken


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