After the eruption of the volcano

It has long been wanted to share this Mikhail Tsyganov, which met in LiveJournal, but "hands reached" only now.
I was impressed not only the events described, and the stunning beauty of pictures, in spite of the very tragic events dokumentalizatsiyu.





"On the Indonesian island of Java in the night from Saturday to Sunday, October 30, 2010 the volcano Merapi has passed the stage of active eruption. The eruption began at 01:00 local time. The lava flows, hot ash clouds, volcanic rocks and gases fell on nearby derevni.Posle how the eruption ended, another attack was expecting the locals - lahars. Lahar is a volcanic mud flow consisting of a mixture of water (as in Indonesia is now the rainy season) with ash, pumice, and rock. Due to the fact that Lahar very dense, it has a high breaking capacity and breaking wood as matches








Six weeks after the eruption had already emerged on the ruins of a new life ...















Once there was a blooming valley, but in a "perfect" day - or rather night, it turned into a lifeless desert:




The temperature of the ash during the eruption was about 400 degrees.












The number of victims of the eruption has reached 304 people. The death toll includes deaths caused by emissions from the ashes of exacerbations of lung disease and heart and other chronic diseases, and died of his injuries. The most powerful of the modern period of the eruption in 1930 killed 1, 4 thousand people. "

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