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To: silverleaf
"Might not be a bad idea to start now, for long term canned goods. History seems to indicate that Katla always follows this one."

Yup...I think I read that the last three times this one erupted, Katla followed.

If Katla blows, well.....

67 posted on 04/17/2010 6:52:21 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

There is also a chance that a horizontal sheet of magma under Eyjafjallajokull could shoot out and enter a magma chamber beneath Katla. Hitting the roots of its neighbor would almost certainly trigger an eruption.

The three eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull on record were each associated with a subsequent eruption of Katla. There are no signs of turbulence beneath Katla but, since it last erupted in 1918, a new blast is overdue. Katla tends to erupt every 40 to 80 years.

“So far there have been no signs of the reawakening of the Katla volcano, but a lot of things can still happen, so we are monitoring it quite closely,” said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-scientists-iceland-volcanos-big-sister-poses-real-threat-fc-20100416_7095834


86 posted on 04/17/2010 7:04:13 AM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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