Idle question of the day...

[seawasp]

... how many of you have actually witnessed (as in, with your own eyes, not on TV screens, etc.) a volcanic eruption? I have, I'm just wondering how large a percentage of the population has.

(Mine was the 1970 eruption of Hekla on Iceland; we overflew the lava field and then circled the erupting cone for some time in a private aircraft)

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Very interesting. I wonder what effect that has/had on the New Madrid quake/fault area. Or on the slight earthquake we had a couple months ago.

Oh, no, Ryk, you're not old. For certain values of "old."

[seawasp]

New Madrid is a separate phenomenon; currently I believe it's thought to be a mostly "fossil" fault that's just slowly releasing old pent-up energy, rather than being active.

I'm definitely young. The mirror here is just lying.