Is German Dormant Super Volcano Getting Ready to Blow?

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2081219/Is-super-volcano-Laach...

Rsoe EDIS Code: UGE-20120102-33614-DEU

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

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News & Politics

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• volcano
• super-volcano
• Germany
• Hot-Topics
• Bonn
• magma
• ash-cloud
• ash
• eruption
• erupts
• blow
• UK
• Great-Britain
• United-Kingdom
• Europe

[Inhimillinen]

Here's a link to a seismic station in Czech wwwDOTigDOTcasDOTcz/en/structu­re/observatories/webnet/map-of­-epicenters/

You'll see that there is always some movement. I have been following this from time to time.

Thanks Christina for posting!

[ChristiannaGarrett1]

@Inhimillinen  Thanks a lot! :)

[ThePanzerfist44]

Hi there Christianna , I would love it if you had a job as a Tv presenter - nothing trashy but something worthy of you like the discovery channel or national geographic - you have such a nice speaking voice - and even though the subject matter is often grim and serious due to the world we are living in - they way you present the information makes it easier and more pleasant to digest it and take it in.

your a pleasure to listen to .

Thanks

[ChristiannaGarrett1]

@ThePanzerfist44 Thankyou very much. Such a lovely comment. :) I will remeber that when times get tough. This constant doom is very wearing on the spirit sometimes. Happy New Year to you.

[ChristiannaGarrett1]

The Daily Mail writes today "Is a super-volcano just 390 miles from London about to erupt?", suggesting that the Laacher See volcano in Western Germany could "erupt any time" and produce a large eruption such as the devastating (but still moderate, not super-volcano at all) Plinian eruption 11,900 years ago. Unfortunately, what the Daily Mail writes, is more dark fantasy than anything else. Read more and why, please have a look at the brilliant post on Dr. Erik Klemetti's Eruptions Blog. rsoe

[lordcakedude75]

Why are we worried about this, when the Yellowstone National park is over 650,000 years over due? If that happened, it would be worse then this. They found dust from that all the way in Central Russia.

[555pghbob]

@ThePanzerfist44 She does have a beautiful voice, but unfortunately, like so many other Brits, she didn't pronounce the foreign name/word to make it sound like the word it is. Consequently, I had to search for the name of the area about which she was speaking because I couldn't understand her diction. It is pronounced more correctly as "lah-kher zay." But, otherwise, nicely reported.

[TheShinobi32]

They say there is one in bolivia that is acting up,there is the one in yellow stone that is acting funny and thats just these three thats not counting the other supper volcanoes so it is just a matter of time before one or more of them blows.

[KaroKoenich]

The story vastly misrepresents the scientific data. The explosion of the Laacher See volcano 13000 years ago was the result of an extraordinary combination of circumstances. Even IF volcanic activity in the area would start again right now - of which we see no signs at all - it would most probably be several orders of magnitude smaller.

[JasonVladimir]

Thank you for sharing, I have loved ones that live a few miles away from this very location! I had no idea!