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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Just what we need. Maybe it will happen between the Euro collapse and the Iran war.
In days past, the Germans would have used it as an excuse to conquer lebensraum somewhere else. Drang nach osten!
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.
Aryan Alliterations Astonishingly Amusing
I’m in Yoda mode.
There’s a bunch of them in France too! Chaine des Puys — last eruption was around 6kya.
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?
Its still there, scientists still think we are due for an eruption, but due is a window of a thousand years.
Maybe Yellowstone will blow at the same time, then we will no longer need to worry about what our country is becoming.
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
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.
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