Mount Ontake, Japan (CNN) - At least 31 people are presumed dead after rescuers found them showing no signs of life Sunday near the summit of a Japanese volcano that started erupting a day earlier.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/28/world/asia/japan-volcano-ontake/index.html?c=homepage
Police said the people were in a state of "cardiac arrest," meaning that they were discovered without a pulse and weren't breathing but hadn't been declared dead by a doctor. It's interesting to find out that they all died the same way. This has been a very strange case and is so od, but we look at this and it goes into the book of history.
I don't know why they didn't evacuate. Either they new to evacuate and chose not to or their government failed to warm them of the situation. The United States can learn from other countries mistakes so we make sure not to make the same ones.
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This reminds me a little bit of Pompeii and how a society, or in this case, a small group of individuals, were affected by nature. Unfortunately, they might not have had resources or the knowledge to know how to flee the area in time. We have learned in previous science classes that dormant volcanoes can randomly become active without showing any signs. That might have been the case. Elizabeth Muscari P6
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