[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KoRn. Any volcanic eruption is a mole on the ass of the Earth. It can do damage locally, but is never, ever on a scale of the large impacts that have brought on extinctions of whole taxa. Krakatoa caused beautiful sunsets for a couple of years, whoa. The "year without a summer" has been attributed to an eruption of Tambora along with a few other eruptions, but it was also (weird coincidence!) a period of very low solar activity; monitoring the solar disk was pretty new then. [ * ]

With a Volcano of that size, you’d think we would have obvious warning signs of an imminent eruption in the way of seismic activity.

The only thing the specialists can do is say whether a volcano is active, dormant, or extinct, and they're usually right about it. When a volcano starts throwing out gas, building a dome, or belching molten material, they know, but of course, everyone else does too.

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[Monkey Face]

When I go, I want it to be quick. I don’t want to linger.

[Vermont Lt]

Not trying to be one of those guys. But a caldera explosion would make Krakatoa sound like a lady finger. I am not worried about it happening; but the result would be cubic yards of ash deep from Wyoming to Chicago, then just feet of it on the East Coast.