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German Volcano Could Devastate Europe (ticking tectonic timebombs could wreak havoc globally)
Yahoo ^ | 1/3/12 | Charles Simmins

Posted on 01/04/2012 1:30:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge

The Daily Mail stirs up some Euro anxiety with a headline today "Is a super-volcano just 390 miles from London about to erupt?" The story talks about the little known Laacher See volcano in northwestern Germany. It last erupted about 12,000 years ago and the Daily Mail believes it is due to erupt again.

It is not considered extinct, merely inactive. An eruption of the Laacher See volcano would destroy much of Europe as we know it. London is 390 miles away. The German capital of Bonn is about 25 miles away.

The potential eruption of the Laacher See volcano is not the only geologic threat to the industrialized nations.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; devastate; europe; german; searchisyourfriend; volcano
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To: NormsRevenge

Just what we need. Maybe it will happen between the Euro collapse and the Iran war.


21 posted on 01/04/2012 2:11:21 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: gr8eman
a lot of Germans seem to wish it was true for some reason

In days past, the Germans would have used it as an excuse to conquer lebensraum somewhere else. Drang nach osten!

22 posted on 01/04/2012 2:15:04 PM PST by hellbender
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bonn is still the German capitol? I thought they moved back to Berlin after reunification.

Shhh! Don't tell the East Germans that they have been secretly deunified. Also don't pay attention to that little bit of masonry being built through Berlin.

23 posted on 01/04/2012 2:18:02 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: Disambiguator
Pssst.

Aryan Alliterations Astonishingly Amusing

24 posted on 01/04/2012 2:25:00 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats:always looking for someone else to blame)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

I’m in Yoda mode.


25 posted on 01/04/2012 2:25:39 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: NormsRevenge

There’s a bunch of them in France too! Chaine des Puys — last eruption was around 6kya.


26 posted on 01/04/2012 2:28:35 PM PST by Lady Lucky
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To: NormsRevenge

BTW - What happened to the super volcano under Yellowstone. You couldn’t go long without hearing how doomed we all were. Now I can’t remember the last time I heard it mentioned. Did it just go away? Did it move to Germany? Was it made up?


27 posted on 01/04/2012 2:28:48 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy

Its still there, scientists still think we are due for an eruption, but due is a window of a thousand years.


28 posted on 01/04/2012 2:43:05 PM PST by jbwbubba
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To: NormsRevenge

Maybe Yellowstone will blow at the same time, then we will no longer need to worry about what our country is becoming.


29 posted on 01/04/2012 3:11:02 PM PST by jimmango
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To: fireforeffect

This is just a hit mongering post. The WEST EIFEL VOLCANIC FIELD is a volcanic naught. Doesn’t even make the large eruption list which starts at VEI 4. Supervolcanos start at VEI 8 and up. Mt. St. Helens was a VEI 5.

Authoritative Volcano info:
Global Volcanism Program
http://www.volcano.si.edu/index.cfm


30 posted on 01/04/2012 4:50:51 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: cartan
The German capital is Berlin, not Bonn.

You can't blame the reporter, Berlin has only been the capital of Germany for ages./SAR

Doesn't the stupidity of so called journalists amaze you? It does me.

31 posted on 01/04/2012 6:44:09 PM PST by calex59
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