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Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:58 pm
by alphacat
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/23977 ... -to-erupt-
A sleeping super-volcano in Germany is showing worrying signs of waking up.
It's lurking just 390 miles away underneath the tranquil Laacher See lake near Bonn and is capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma.
This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years and last went off 12,900 years ago, so it could blow at any time.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:59 pm
by wub
alphacat wrote:capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma
Fuck sake Si, sort it out.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:00 pm
by particle-jim
alphacat wrote:This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years
that's quite an error margin...
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:06 pm
by alphacat
particle-jim wrote:alphacat wrote:This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years
that's quite an error margin...
Must be government run.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:10 pm
by DRTY
all that water will put the fire out
but no
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:11 pm
by jameshk
WE'RE ALL GONA DIE.
I'm surprised the mail havn't got hold of this yet.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:17 pm
by HamCrescendo
particle-jim wrote:alphacat wrote:This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years
that's quite an error margin...
and this volcano calls itself German...
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:33 pm
by Backslang
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:43 pm
by autobot
Actually my worst nightmare
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:46 pm
by wolf89
Could happen in one day or one hundred years really no way of knowing.
either way we should definitely be hysterical/taking as much coke and banging as many hookers as possible just in case we all die.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:46 pm
by ketamine
autobot wrote:Actually my worst nightmare
Really? Volcanoes don't scare me but Earthquakes to my head in.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:53 pm
by apmje
North of England doesn't seem to badly effected.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:58 pm
by wub
apmje wrote:North of England doesn't seem to badly effected.
How could you tell if it was?
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:59 pm
by autobot
ketamine wrote:autobot wrote:Actually my worst nightmare
Really? Volcanoes don't scare me but Earthquakes to my head in.
Used to earthquakes but nuclear winter for two yrs after one of these explodes - agghh
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:01 pm
by wolf89
^^^ Watch the film The Road and think about being plunged into ash induced winter...
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:30 pm
by horsefeather
don"t believe that shit it will erupt one day but tbh i think that can take some years, the media is just trying to scare us again.
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:31 pm
by pikeymobile
wolf89 wrote:
either way we should definitely be hysterical/taking as much coke and banging as many hookers as possible just in case we all die.
way ahead of you
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:52 pm
by LACE
A sleeping super-volcano in Germany is showing worrying signs of waking up.
It's lurking just 390 miles away underneath the tranquil Laacher See lake near Bonn and is capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma.
HOLY SHIT, billions of tons of magma! think of all the reading material, humanity just won't be able to cope! FFS IT'S THE END I TELL U, THE END!
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:56 pm
by lloydnoise
the article Alphacat posted was actually taken straight from the Mail, it says so at the top.
pretty sensationalist but interesting nonetheless
Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:01 pm
by kay
But the last time it erupted it only covered 659 square miles! How does that even allow it to be counted as a supervolcano?
