In that article I quoted from a story in the Daily Mail, “This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years and last went off 12,900 years ago, so it could blow at any time.”
If Laacher See (see photo below) should blow, much of Europe would be covered in ash.
A reader then complained that I should have been quoting “REAL volcanologists.”
Although it’s not entirely staffed by REAL volcanologists, I wonder if that reader would accept information from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
When he checked earthquake history at the USGS within a 10 to 50 kilometer radius of the volcano, reader Paul Messenger found that “something is still active down there, at a depth of 10 km or so.”
Then Messenger took it one step further. “Just did a map plot of earthquakes since 1988 (or so) for a 200km (120-mile) radius around Laacher See,” says Messenger.
“2340 earthquakes!”
This doesn’t mean that it’s going to erupt tomorrow, certainly, but as Messenger says, it’s obvious that “something is still active down there.”
bron:
http://iceagenow.info/201(...)40-earthquakes-1988/