[Geysers] Kamchatka disaster

[Karl and Lori Hoppe]

First heard it on Minnesota Public Radio and found
this at abcnews.com:

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A powerful mudslide has destroyed
Eurasia's only geyser valley in the remote Kamchatka
peninsula in Russia's Far East, RIA news agency
reported on Sunday quoting local sources. 

"A torrent of mud, trees, snow and stones covered
two-thirds of this unique nature park," RIA quoted an
unnamed witness as saying. Twenty five tourists and
personnel were evacuated from the area, it said.

...

"The biggest springs may still come through the debris
but most of the others are probably lost forever," RIA
quoted an unnamed scientist at a local institute as
saying.

The whole article can be read here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3239982

-Karl Hoppe


       
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