--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Too lazy to look it up, but I did read that Katla is able > to be almost a world killer -- but that was about almost > killing all life on Earth -- the lesser damage of "killing > humanity due to mass starvation" is a much more possible > result out of a Katla event.
Conceivable, but unlikely. AS I SAID, Katla erupts about twice a century, and it hasn't killed the world or killed humanity by mass starvation yet. Icelanders living anywhere near it should be worried, and depending on what it spews and which way the winds are blowing, it could cause big problems in Europe with air travel and maybe some crops. Iceland's Laki eruption in 1783 killed thousands across Europe and caused a famine in France and a very cold winter around the globe. Could that be what you're thinking of? That was the worst one in recent history from Iceland. What you really need to worry about, of course, is the Yellowstone caldera. Definitely a potential world-killer. But apparently the uplift has slowed way down recently, so geologists aren't as concerned as they were. <snip> > The crust is thinner than an egg shell and the inside of > the egg is up to about 10,000 F degrees....hotter than the > surface of the sun. > > There's your protection that volcanoes so easily pierce. > > Feeling a bit more at risk? My job is done here. Not even a tad bit. But you've shot your wad, so your job is done here anyway.
