Is Germany's Super-Volcano Awakening???
Story:
Extinction ProtocolGermany's
Laacker See volcano erupted 12,900 years ago, at the onset of the Younger Dryas reglaciation period.
The eruption lasted two or three days, spewed forth some 16 cubic kilometers of tephra and 6 cubic kilometers of magma, in that brief time period, at which time the caldera collapsed
These tephra deposits from the eruption dammed the Rhine, creating a 140 km2 (50 sq mi) lake. When that dam broke, an outburst flood swept downstream, leaving deposits as far away as Bonn. The collapsed caldera is a lake today.
VOLCANIC EXPLOSIVITY INDEX (VEI)
The Laacker See eruption is recognized on the
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) as a 6. (larger than the 1991 Mt Pinatubo eruption that was also a 6)
The Volcanic Explosive Index scale is logarithmic, with each interval on the scale above 1 representing a tenfold increase in observed eruption criteria. The scale is open-ended - as in having no top index number (not limited to 8).
Mount St. Helens (1980) was a 5
Yellowstone (Mesa Falls eruption), 1.3 Mya, was a 7 (VEI), 100 times Mount St Helens.
Yellowstone (Huckleberry Ridge eruption), 2.2 Mya was an 8 (VEI), at least 1000 times Mount St Helens.
Yellowstone (Lava Creek eruption) 640,000 ya, was also an 8 (VEI).
The last Yellowstone eruption was the explosive equivalent of 1 Million Hiroshima atomic bombs.For Physical Perspective: the Laacker See Lake, occupying the majority of that volcano's caldera, is about the same scale of just
ONE of the orange 5-pointed stars seen at the
north end of Lake Yellowstone, on this map.Another interesting note: that
1959 Hebgen Lake quake of 7.5, marked on the above map, outside the park, outside of Wyoming, to the west in Utah, is a major reason for geologists finally recognizing that Yellowstone was even a volcano!
Photos of 1959 Yellowstone Quake:
http://www.seis.utah.edu/lqthreat/nehrp_htm/1959hebg/c1959he1.shtmlHere's the Gooogle Map of "Earthquake Lake" instantly formed from that 1959 quake, at the north-west end of Hebgen Lake, downstream from Hebgen Lake dam.
The landslide is rather obvious.
This whole area west of Yellowstone, outside Oklahoma, in Montana and northern Idaho, represents the area where the Yellowstone plume is expanding, and has evidently been doing so as far back as 1959.
