2021 Eruption of Sakarias Island

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## Volcanic Eruption

### Part of

Chawo-Uralic War

Depictive images of the 2021 Sakarias Eruption

### Impact

Sakarias Island destroyed and abandoned by its locals, Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces weakened by its loss of its military headquarters

### Outcome

* Chawosauria's war effort in the Chawo-Uralic War derailed
* Volcanic winter arrives to Chawosauria arctic urban centers including Chawopolis City
* Exodus of Sakarias Island

### Casualties

* 7,000+ Chawosaurians projected killed including Leonid Bachvarov
* Uncertain number of survivors

The **2021 Eruption of Sakarias Island**, also known as the **2021 Sakarias Eruption**, was a surprise explosive volcanic eruption that took place on August 11, 2021, in Sakarias Island. The 2021 Sakarias Eruption paralyzed the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces and derailed the Chawosaurian war effort in the Chawo-Uralic War (2021-ongoing) and stricken the Empire of Chawosauria into a paralysis of shock and grief. Chawosauria has faced natural disasters before, but Chawosauria has never faced a volcanic eruption before until the 2021 Sakarias Eruption. The Sakarias Eruption, based on its volcanic severity, type, explosive index, and the fact that it destroyed a Chawosaurian settlement to Chawosauria's surprise gave the eruption its popular nickname "Chawosauria's Pompeii".

On August 11, 2021, at 4:10 AM, Mt. Sakarias unleashes a bright flash deadly enough to disintegrated Sakarias locals who were close to it and blinded locals who were distant from the flash, as well as severely burning their skin and radiating them. The flash wines down and the mountains then explodes and erupts, unleashing a large Plinian cloud of volcanic ash, thundery lightening in which often hits the island and cause wildfires and fire whirls on the island, and explosive fire. Sakarias residents who were fortunately not disintegrated or radiated panicked with shock and horror to the scenes of the surprise volcanic eruption and the presence of radiated fellow-Sakarians, hysteria and confusion plagued the volcanic ground. By 3:00 PM, fireballs shot at Sakarias Island like missiles and by 6 to 7 PM, a mega-tsunami struck the island with extreme force and earthquakes added to the flooding and near-sinking of the island. While Sakarias Island suffered a sinking due to earthquakes and tsunamis, the moderately flooded city of Sakarias was buried by the pyroclastic flow of Mount Sakarias, killing many Sakarians with all rescue missions by the Chawosaurian Imperial Navy and the Chawosaurian Imperial Air Force unsuccessful due to the severity of the eruption and the tsunamis that came with it. The 2021 Sakarias Eruption killed around 7,000+ Chawosaurians with survivors uncertain. The Sakarias Eruption had a VEI (volcanic explosivity index) at 6, making the eruption just as dangerous as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in The Philippines. The devastation and severity caused by the eruption gave the eruption itself its popular nickname "Chawosauria's Pompeii".

11;59 PM, August 11, 2021, the few battleships that had 500+ survivors on board fortunately survived the tsunamis got scattered around the arctic ocean but the loss of Sakarias Island, which was the military headquarters of the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces, cost the battleships access to satellite GPS signals, thus becoming lost in the arctic. By August 13, 2021, the city of Sakarias is completely destroyed, buried by heavy volcanic ash and moderately flooded. Sakarias Island is now in the midst of a volcanic winter that also only affects the Chawosaurian arctic and has came much earlier in August, Chawosaurian arctic cities such as Chawopolis City experienced volcanic ash fall from the clouds of Mt. Sakarias headed towards these Chawosaurian cities, Chawopolis City and other Chawosaurian arctic cities were covered in ash.

The 2021 Eruption of Sakarias Island weakened the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces because Sakarias Island was the military headquarters of the Empire of Chawosauria. All military manufacturing and infrastructure on the island were completely destroyed by the eruption, and those Chawosaurians conscripted for military service by the Caspian Sea Resolution were killed by the eruption, thus greatly disrupting Chawosauria's war efforts in the Chawo-Uralic War. Because Chawopolis City is Chawosauria's capital city, the Parker administration now seeks to turn Chawopolis City into a military headquarters now that Sakarias was unexpectedly dethroned by a volcanic eruption. Chawosaurian Supreme Commander, Leonid Bachvarov, was killed in the eruption.

The Chawosaurian Imperial Government began to cover up the eruption, denying it has ever happened to downplay the severity of the eruption.

Chawosauria completely abandons Sakarias Island because the volcanic eruption has made reconstruction impossible and Chawosauria is in the midst of a costly Chawo-Uralic War.

## Background

Sakarias Island was discovered in 1581 and colonized it in 1582 the following year, the city of Sakarias was constructed in the 1580s. In 1692, Emperor Sakarias died and the island and the city were named after him. Emperor Sakarias invested heavily in the construction of Sakarias, which was why the city and island were named after him. From 1693 to 1895, Sakarias Island lived in peace in the midst of European colonialist presence in the new world. That changed when the Chawo-Wolfsberg War broke out, and Sakarias Island becomes a military headquarters to fight the Wolfsberg Empire. Chawosauria collapsed in the war and becomes quasi-colonized.

In the beginning of the 20th century, Sakarias Island gains heavy dependence from Chawosauria, Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster made heavy investments to Sakarias Island when the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces were founded, and during World War I and the Revolutions of 1917-1923 were going on, Webster made Sakarias Island prepared Chawosauria for potential war and made industrial development projects with the help from labor unions into Sakarias City. Sakarians becoming a military city now saw massive industrialization and being well cared for by Chawosauria's emerging labor union elites being brought to power by Prime Minister Webster.

When Chawosauria intervened into the Russian Civil War in 1921 under Prime Minister Theodore McClellan, Sakarias City was of the few pro-war areas in Chawosauria, but Chawosauria abandoned the Russian Civil War defeated in 1923 and a humiliated Chawosauria then uses Sakarias to improve Chawosauria's tarnished military image. It worked out OK during World War II though Chawosauria never directly fought there. During the Cold War, Sakarias becomes a military superpower city in the Empire of Chawosauria.

The Cold War ended in 1991 alongside the fall of the USSR, but from 1991 to 2021, Sakarias had been experiencing strange natural disasters, constant earthquakes and sinkholes. Sakarias has gained reputation of being "Chawosauria's Sparta", and from the beginning of the 21st century, Sakarias was attracted many Chawosaurians who have enlisted into the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces, but earthquake and sinkhole issues were made worse by 2011, and from 2011 to 2021, Sakarias repeatedly lost coastal land to the earthquakes as more land slides off the island. In 2013, Sakarias had over 26 earthquakes mainly from Mount Sakarias, which was when the first signs of volcanic eruption began to take stem and it worried Chawosaurian Volcanologists and tried to warn the Chawosaurian government.

The Chawosaurian government downplayed the severity of Sakarias' worsening natural disasters, believing that there no such things as "volcanos in Chawosauria", though Mount Sakarias is now showing clear signs of volcanic eruption, though won't actually erupt until 2021. From 2013 to 2021, Mount Sakarias kept smoking and clouds began to appear around the mountains, while the rest of Sakarias continued to suffer from endless earthquakes, which then made Sakarians feel fearful of such. Sakarias Beach collapsed to the earthquakes and subsequent flooding in 2015, forcing the beach to close down. Sakarias National Park was also closed down because of the intense earthquakes that continued on in 2017. In 2019, Sakarias infrastructure suffered from countless sinkholes that derailed Sakarias transportation.

By 2020, Sakarias gained the reputation of being Chawosauria's sole ring of fire island. Speculations of a soon eruption of Sakarias started to gain stem in Chawosauria outside of Sakarias, and fear of volcanic eruption spread all over the Sakarian public. There was also occasional fear that Sakarias may be a supervolcano among the rest of the Chawosaurian public. Chawosaurian scientists and volcanologists have sound the alarm to the government constantly and desperately, only to be stonewalled and after the eruption had occurred, whitewashed.

## Eruption of Mount Sakarias

At 12:03 AM, August 11th, 2021, a bomb-like sound occurred and the mountain exploded like a nuclear bomb, and when its fireball disappeared, the eruption beings. The residents of Sakarias began to panic as those who looked into the volcanic fireball suffered from blindness and are unable to see when trying to run. Chawosaurian law enforcement were put on standby and try to retained law and order in the panicking city because Chawosaurians in general have never seen a volcanic eruption in the whole history of Chawosauria.

## Aftermath and Reaction

The Chawosaurian government had mixed feelings towards the eruption, seeking to downplay the severity of the eruption while giving condolences to those who died.

On the day of the eruption, the Chawosaurian government assured that of zero causalities, though a volcanic eruption is likely to cause considerable causalities, both injuries and death. The Chawosaurian government took a Trumpian approach to handling media coverage of the eruption, ranging them from being just hysterical to inaccurate to just straight up fake news.

## Chawosaurian Government's Response

The 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government's handling of the Sakarias Eruption was very inadequate, following the Exodus of Sakarias Island, the Chawosaurian Imperial Navy struggled to find refugee destinations with military GPS guidance that was provided from Sakarias Island, which is now destroyed, and the Chawosaurian government had refused to support the Sakarias survivors.

In 2022, the Chawosaurian Imperial Government began a coverup campaign to either deny the eruption had ever happened or just downplay the severity and seriousness of the eruption. The Chawosaurian government refused to allow volcanologists survey the damages and environmental impact on the eruption, threatened to penalize them with deportation to Antarctica. The Chawosaurian government labeled media coverage of the eruption as a media frenzy and occasionally fake news, Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker criticized the media for "fearmongering the eruption for ratings" and said the eruption "wasn't severe" despite the objections from volcanologists.

## Impact of the Eruption

The Sakarias Eruption caused a volcanic winter in Chawosauria, all of Chawosauria's arctic urban centers were effected by ashfall,