Happy Tunguska Day to all! That's right, today is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event. On June 30, 1908, something exploded over the boreal forests of central Siberia, flattening tens of millions of trees in an area of over 2000 square kilometers. The explosion is estimated to have been the size of 1000 Hiroshima …
Month: June 2008
Month old pictures from Chaiten Volcano, Chile
I'm a little slow. Maybe you saw these over a month ago. Good pictures of the May eruption of Chaiten Volcano in Chile can be found on the Daily Mail. Here's a sample: Go to the link for more. Grace and Peace
The Volcanism Blog
Thanks to The Volcanism Blog for including The GeoChristian in its blogroll.
Major life changes
Here's my explanation for the six-week hiatus in blog entries: For more than a year, my wife and I have been talking and praying about leaving the mission field and moving back to the United States. We have been in Bucharest, Romania, since January 2003, where I have been serving as the grades 7-12 science …
Midwest flooding
These NASA images show the rapid increase in flooding along the Mississippi River in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri in the past week. We drove through the area around Alexandria, Missouri earlier this week, as well as through the Des Moines area, and we saw extensive areas under water along the Mississippi, Des Moines, and Skunk …
