Did you know?
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
June 14, 2022 5:18pm CST
There are volcanoes in Germany?
Ya know, I really don't think about volcanoes in Europe, but I do know that there is a piece of Africa on top of the Matterhorn.
And if I do think about them, I think of Italy and Sicily...
So, I watched a documentary on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWVQP8uTpPM about the volcanoes in the Eifel region of Germany. And... wow! any one of those volcanoes could make those better known volcanoes in Italy or Sicily look like fireworks.
Honestly, volcanoes that don't erupt often are the "sleeping giants" (stolen phrase from some other video I've watched) of the world. There are lots of people who would die very quickly if one of these erupted without warning. But there are people watching, looking for earthquakes and other signs that a volcano might erupt.
Oh, and another volcano that is just waiting to kill a lot of people not in Germany... Mt. Rainier...
Be afraid! Be very afraid!
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@LadyDuck (502204)
• Italy
15 Jun 22
Yes, there are volcanoes in Germany, I think there are 30 or even more. There are 10 (active) in my native country. Switzerland has no active volcanoes. Etna in Sicily was very active the past week, sooner or later Mount Vesuvius will erupt again.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
15 Jun 22
@LadyDuck oh, yeah, it is active, and if it erupts, again, there are a lot of people in the cross hairs. But the Phlegraean Fields is a way more dangerous volcano since it is a super volcano and Naples is sitting just outside of the caldera!
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@m_audrey6788 (58468)
• Germany
15 Jun 22
I have not heard about that around here but it can be true 
I am scared living near volcanoes because you really don`t know when they will explode 
I am scared living near volcanoes because you really don`t know when they will explode 1 person likes this
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
15 Jun 22
Well, we have better ways to predict them than in the past, both St. Helens in 1980 and Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 were pretty well predicted. Neither erupted exactly like they had in the past, but they were both expected. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was pretty unexpected, but since it wasn't inhabited, it wasn't as worried about as volcanoes around inhabited places. Part of the reason it wasn't as expected to be that violent was because it had been erupting pretty steadily since December 20th and, on the whole, it is kind of like a soda, if you let the fizz out slowly it normally won't blow up... yeah, that didn't happen... The documentary is in English, but you could probably listen to the scientists talking in the background in German.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Jun 22
Mt St Helens blew her top back in 1980, I think it was. Just a lot of ash but it kept the BC/Washington border closed for a day.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
15 Jun 22
Yep, 1980 was when Mount St. Helens erupted. No fun for those in the area, but really not too big an eruption for a Cascade eruption. The worst thing was that it didn't do what it had historically always done, erupt out of the top, the north face collapsed and it went that way.
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