Ring of Fire Page #2
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- Year:
- 1991
- 100 min
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forming complex volcanic conduits
and immense magma chambers
on its way to eruption.
Through repeated eruptions
this tectonic process
has formed the volcanoes
of the ring of fire.
Mount Sakurajima is one of
hundreds of volcanoes
which make up the
island arc of Japan.
The fire drummers of
Mount Sakurajima
enact the fury of the volcano.
Each year, Sakurajima explodes
in scores of ash eruptions
which blanket the island
and the port city of Kagoshima.
An annual evacuation drill
commemorates the terrible eruption
of Sakurajima volcano in 1914.
The islanders live in harmony
with active volcano
which affects nearly every
aspect of their lives.
Across the bay in the city of
Kagoshima, even the shopping malls
have been designed
with domed skylights
to keep out the regular
storms of ash.
Life goes on for a people living
in the shadow of destruction.
Kagoshima survives, in part,
because of the vigilance
of the scientists
who live and work at
the center of the bay
on the very flank of the volcano.
Here every fluctuation
of the volcano
is carefully monitored by a
team of volcanologists
headed by dr. Kusuke Kamo.
Vigilance is a way of life
in a country with
more than 50 active volcanoes
and more than 10,000 earthquakes
every year.
In the great Tokyo earthquake of 1923
more than 140,000 people perished
mostly from the fires
started by the quake.
Today the people of Tokyo
are part of a national
earthquake preparedness program
designed to save thousands of lives.
Buildings are structurally
engineered to survive
the tremendous forces generated
by earthquakes.
No people on earth are as prepared
for natural disaster as the japanese.
Humans are not the only primates
adapted to life on the ring of fire.
Heat from volcanic sources
warms the hot springs of Nagano
allowing the japanese snow monkey
to survive as the world's
most northerly species of monkey.
In Beppu, people have
also learned to live
with volcanic powers,
harnessing their
geothermal energy for health
and relaxation.
The therapeutic hot springs
of Kirishima...
and the lava sand baths of Beppu
have become popular health spas.
A respite from the relentless
pace of modern life
which, in Japan, is always
just a step away.
3,000 miles southwest,
where the ring of fire
crosses the equator
buddhas keep watch
over the volcanoes of Indonesia
at the temple of Borobudur.
Writer/anthropologist Lawrence Blair
has lives in Indonesia for many years
studying the ancient bond between
its volcanoes and its people.
The temple of Borobudur...
it was built in
this highly unstable valley
to commemorate
the achievement, not of
architectural engineering
but of serene harmony
in the human heart.
For 10 centuries, it has survived
earthquakes and eruption
which have long since eclipsed
the enlightened empire which built it.
For Indonesia is the most fertile
and eruptive nation on the planet.
Perhaps the long memory of
a shifting, unstable earth
has taught the indonesians
to rely less
on the physical world
than on the unseen forces behind it.
the notorious volcano
of Kawah Idgen, there are those who
seek their living directly from
the cauldrons of hell.
For here is a rare surface
source of pure sulfur
to be mined by hand and
borne on their backs
for 15 miles down the volcano's slopes.
Within their lungs
the poisonous fumes
turn into sulfuric acid
condemning them to a life of
less than 30 years.
Still they accept Kawah Idgen's terms
grateful for the volcano's gift
confident of their destiny
beyond this world of shadows.
On the indonesian island of Bali
towers the sacred volcano
of Gunung Agung.
"The Navel of the Universe."
Worshippers still climb the flanks
of the sacred mountain
where, in 1963, thousands died
in an eruption of superheated
ash flows.
High on the slopes of
the sleeping volcano
at the surviving mother temple
of all bali
the kecak dance unfolds.
A ring of fire pulsates as
a single organism
but is soon divided by strife.
Two god kings emerge
leaders of the warring opposites.
The king of the monkey people...
and the king of the demons.
Their battles violently divide
then reunite the community
restoring its balance
just as the holy mountain above
regularly destroys and renews.
The rich, fertile land, which is
the wealth of Indonesia
is a gift of the volcanoes.
A deep and ancient understanding
of the connection
between life and death gives
indonesians an easy intimacy
with both the creative and the
destructive powers
of the earth and with
their own mortality.
In Bali even the bodies of the
dead together with their
finest funeral arts
are returned to fire.
To god Shiva's purifting furnace
of renewal and rebirth.
The fire god in different forms,
is alive atop nearly all of
Indonesia's some 140 volcanoes
reflecting an ancient understanding
that paradise and catastrophe
go hand in hand.
To witness creation in all its power
we return to the very center
of the ring of fire.
The volcanic island of Hawaii
has been created
in just a few million years.
Measured from its base
on the Pacific floor
Mauna Loa is the tallest
mountain on Earth,
and together with its
sister volcano Kilauea
it is among the most active.
In 1984, Mauna Loa and Kilauea
came to life in rare
simulaneous eruptions.
For 21 days and nights
Pele, the Hawaiian goddess
of volcanoes, danced.
Unlike the explosive strato-
volcanoes on the pacific rim,
the more fluid lavas of
most hawaiian volcanoes
form fiery lakes and rivers,
which flow down
the broad slopes of
the great hawaiian
shield volcanoes toward the sea.
but Kilauea continued to erupt,
and between the volcano and the sea
lay the village of Kalapana.
Beneath the cooled surface,
the lava continued to flow,
forming its own underground arteries
as it rushed toward the sea.
Shere the lava flows into the ocean,
the island frows.
This is the newest land on Earth.
In less than a year, life will emerge.
In less than a decade.
hundreds of species
of plants and animals have returned
to Mount St. Helens.
In less than a century, forests
filled with life
will once again dominate the land.
Creation did not happen just once.
Creation continues.
It is a beginning without end.
The Earth is alive.
We recognize it in the volcanoes
of the ring of fire.
And we bear witness to it
in the indomitable spirit of its peoples.
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