Chapter 360: Earthquake
The height of this mountain peak at the foot is more than 400 meters, and the wooden plank road twists back and forth, and it takes a lot of time to go up the mountain.
It was originally a spot to see a thousand-year-old tree at the summit, and there are facilities such as barbecue grills, but now it is used to look out at the volcano.
Han Xuan's chest was undulating, he was wearing a mask to climb the mountain, he was even more tired under the lack of oxygen, and he couldn't take care of resting, and the volcanic eruption was not something that could be seen if he wanted to see it.
Phillips said that there are a total of 1,500 active volcanoes in the world, and about 60 erupt every year, and not all of them are as suitable as the one in front of them.
A large amount of red-hot lava spilled peacefully from the crater and flowed slowly down the hillside, like boiling rice soup pouring out of a rice pot.
The ground was dyed red, and the fire began to burn, only to be extinguished by a helicopter.
The field of vision is very broad, the volcano of more than 20 meters, the caliber is about seven meters, the magma in it is boiling, constantly coming out, a large amount of volcanic ash floating, making the distance hazy, and a little white ash can already be seen under the feet.
The ground was reflected red by the lava, and as the magma continued to gush out, the previous lava had just cooled and darkened, and the latter covered it again.
The scale of the No. 13 volcano has become much larger than what Han Xuan saw before, and it is still rising at a speed visible to the naked eye, at least thirty-five meters.
"It's so shocking, I didn't expect to see this when I came to travel!"
The tourists behind him poured out mineral water to wash their faces, and the tour guide wearing a yellow hat also remembered something when he saw it, and reminded loudly: "If you have glasses, put them on!
Don't drink any water, go down the mountain and buy it again, and wash your exposed skin more! Cover your nose with a cloth dipped in water if you don't wear a mask! People who don't feel well tell me to go down the mountain and rest in the car!"
"How are you? Are you okay?" asked Jason with his head down.
"It's okay, we're here with the upper hand, not a lot of dust. Han Xuan pointed his camera at the volcano and took a few photos. The tone was regretful, "It would be nice to watch it at night, it must have been beautiful at that time." ”
Gabriel turned to look at him and smiled, "It's only one o'clock in the afternoon, and it's still a few hours before it gets dark, so it won't last that long." ”
"Not necessarily. It erupted for seventeen hours last time, but it was much smaller than that, with only a few lava flowing out, and when they cooled down, I found two sapphires there, which were scavenged by the Park Service. ”
A tall woman next to her was also taking pictures with a camera, she was very well prepared, goggles and gas mask covered her face tightly, and her voice came out, almost not hearing clearly.
Han Xuan asked her suspiciously, "Sapphire, is it brought out of magma?"
The woman smiled and said, "That's right. But there are not many of them, only a small part of the sapphires that are lucky enough not to be melted by the magma, and every time a volcano erupts, someone comes to find them, they are the purest sapphires, and the two I found are worth at least $10,000, but it's a pity......"
On the other side, a staff member of the observatory looked at the crater with a telescope to record magma data. The light is too dazzling, like looking at the sun. Only sunglasses can be worn.
Suddenly, I saw a few large bubbles coming out of the crater, the white smoke became thicker and scattered, and several sparks jumped out and splashed.
He put down his binoculars and asked the people around him, "Did you see it? ”
"You mean ejection, how can a tranquil volcano erupt?" the old man took the telescope in his hand and held it up, and saw that the magma was still the same as before. Calm emerges.
Just as he was about to ask if he had made a mistake, the ground shook violently.
The camera on the tripod fell off the cliff, and the leaves of the thousand-year-old tree rustled and fell a lot.
Han Xuan stood by the railing, looking down at a stream flowing in the valley. When the ground shook, I almost didn't stand firm, and if it wasn't for the wooden fence in the way, I would definitely fall!
It only lasted three or four seconds, my mind went blank, and I closed my eyes and shouted, "There was an earthquake!?"
"Let's go down the mountain!" Jason threw away the water bottle in his hand and threw it into the grass at random, at this time, if there was an earthquake on the top of the mountain, it would be terrible!
Carrying Han Xuan, there were all frightened screams around, and he ran down the mountain, and a person was squeezed and fell, Gabriel saw that the people next to him didn't have the idea of helping him, and pushed away the crowd and pulled him up.
He didn't even say thank you, and with a few footprints on his body, he just stood up, shook off Gabriel's hand and continued to run towards the plank road.
When Jason saw this scene, he decided to go down later, standing on the edge of the cliff far from the observation deck, and shouted, "Don't crowd!
Han Xuan found that the woman who was talking to him just now had fallen, her forehead hit the fence, and she was bleeding, patted Jason and motioned for him to put herself down, pointed at Owen and shouted, "Go and help her up, don't be on the edge of the cliff!"
Owen nodded, ran around a few people, reached out to pick her up, and was about to walk back, when the ground shook again, this time for a longer time, more than five seconds before stopping!
The crying around became louder, several old men, old women, and children fell and lay on the ground, while Han Xuan heard a muffled thunderous sound, quickly looked towards the volcano, and when he saw the scene in front of him, his eyes widened in horror!
The magma in the crater seemed to be boiled, and lava bubbles bubbled, and after the earthquake, a crack opened next to it, and the magma continued to gush out, and the whole volcano collapsed, and the sound of the boom smashed into the lava, and the magma splashed more than ten meters high!
The surface of the earth has collapsed into a large block! The whole crater with a diameter of ten meters is fiery red! Thick smoke is billowing out!
The firefighting helicopter sensed something was wrong and quickly moved away.
Not far from Han Xuan, the old man's lips at the observatory turned white, and the earthquake meant that there was still strong energy under the ground that had not been released, which explained
"Don't squeeze! Get down the hill and get out of here!
The shouts were drowned out by the noise, except for the exploration team members around him, it is estimated that only Han Xuan heard this, Jason hurriedly went down the mountain, and asked Owen to put the woman down and look at the boy.
Bypassing the crowd and looking around, it was all undeveloped woods, and there was no way down the mountain, and the only passage was chaos except chaos!
Under the panic, people forgot all the escape experience they had learned before, and only had the idea of escaping!
Yellowstone previously learned that a volcanic crater was about to erupt and advertised it as an attraction to attract tourists, but now there are at least 500 visitors on this wide observation deck, and the boardwalk is only more than a meter wide, so it is unlikely that you will be able to evacuate quickly.
The muscles in his neck burst out, and at this time, there was a violent shaking, and the interval was even shorter, Han Xuan, Owen and Gabriel squatted down against the old tree with their backs, and put the injured and unconscious woman in front of them.
"We should be able to squeeze in!" shouted Gabriel and Jason, who was not far away, making eye contact.
Turn your head to look at the exit of the boardwalk.
It's all human, it's all crazy!
Someone falls and steps directly on them, and only a few who are rational will help them up!
"Don't!" a puppy seemed to be looking for support, Han Xuan reached out to hug it and shouted, "It's more dangerous to go down now!"
The staff at the observation post, not knowing what they saw, stood up one after another, struggling to get up even after the earthquake and falling.
Han Xuan's neck was numb, and he leaned on the old tree to look at the volcano, and there were several cracks on the surface of the ground that were more than ten meters long, and there were all fiery red magma below...... (To be continued.) )