Geological Survey Authority: This is the truth of the fumes rising from Umm Jurasan Cave

Written By سنان خلف on 2020/03/07

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A spokesman for the Saudi Geological Survey Authority, Tariq Aba Al-Khail, revealed that a specialized technical team from the Volcanoes Department of the National Center for Seismology and Volcanoes at the Geological Survey Authority made a field visit to Umm Jarsan Cave on Saturday morning, after social media circulated a video clip showing the escalation of fumes and fire </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /><br /> And Aba Al-Khail stated that the technical team examined the rising fumes and it turned out that they are quantities of dung and debris from birds and bats that have accumulated over the years on top of each other in the cave floor and not volcanic smelter as mentioned in the rolling video. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84?src=hash&amp;ref_sr... <br /> Citizens monitor the escalation of volcanic fumes and fire from the mouth of Umm Jarasan, north of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9_%... Medina_Munawara today .. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85_... Burkan_am_jarsan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%... Burkan_Madina</a> <a href="https://t.co/G2ZXV5Fo0s">pic.twitter.com/G2ZXV5Fo0s</a> </p> - Arab Weather - Saudi Arabia (@ArabiaWeatherSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArabiaWeatherSA/status/1235994098647121920?ref_src=t... 6, 2020</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> A spokesman for the Geological Survey stated that all the evidence and evidence of the smell of fumes and their shape indicates that they are not caused by volcanic smelting but rather by burning of the residues of these birds, stressing that the fumes resulting from volcanic smelter consist of sulfur oxides that resemble the smell of rotten eggs, carbon dioxide and water vapors There are none of these gases on the site. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /><br /> He added that the temperature surrounding the cave was confirmed by measuring a number of existing and close wells and showing its constant temperature from the previous measurements. Therefore, we conclude that the area is thermally stable and there is no fear of it, God willing. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

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