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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

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well, the world didn’t end in 1918 or earlier epochs of our recorded histroy, even though there were lots of disasters and suffering and life changing events.

Let’s hope despite the Mayan/Hopi and other calendars, this age isn’t coming to an end either.

Otherwise, dayum.
All those social security payments...wasted