Residents claim they often choke on the dust in the air in the evenings.
Measurements in the town on Monday showed levels of the dust in the air were three times the maximum safety level.
The explosion is similar to blasts that have occurred in industries, such as in a coal mine when coal dust in the air ignites and explodes.
As one who has conducted field research and been mountaineering in the Himalayas for over four decades, I can personally attest to unbelievably dramatic changes in the glacial profiles I have witnessed over those many years, as well as recognizing what is now termed aerosol hot spots, the warming combination of dust and carbon in the air.
Plowing the same patch on Thursday that he had plowed on Monday, sending up a cloud of dust that hovered in the air.
The heat from the friction of its descent into the denser air can ignite the dust and debris in a display of astronomical fireworks.
Deegan cautioned that workers in the disaster site should continue using dust masks and respirators and keeping the debris wet to reduce particulates in the air.
Alerted by the disruption caused to all air traffic by the Iceland volcano dust explosion in April 2010 to the power of using social media to communicate with frustrated passengers, KLM started intercepting their customers' Tweets and Facebook remarks and dreaming up little surprise, individualised gifts or events - when, at least, some of them travel.
But then throw in the Kamchatka volcanoes, which are throwing massive amounts of dust into the air, causing the Arctic to be even colder and Arctic winds to push farther south, and you get a very drastic change in patterns.
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Dust from two wood recycling plants in Greater Manchester could be making people living near the sites ill, air quality experts have said.
One theory is that a growing mass of particulates, such as coal dust and biomass (from the widespread use of cow dung as fuel, for instance) in the air above India, now hinders rainfall.
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