Right, most of North America will be wiped out in weeks (Reply #14)

In the discussion thread: Panic grips Iceland after volcano hit by biggest earthquake tremors in 40 years [View all]

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 01:32 PM

Warpy (109,010 posts)

14. Right, most of North America will be wiped out in weeks

and the rest of the planet will be in a deep freeze for years.

Still, barring that 600,000 year catastrophe (which is due NOW), the worst death tolls have been from stratovolcanoes that have gone silent and picturesque long enough for people to forget their stratovolcanoes. Mt. Rainier, I'm looking at you.

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17 replies	Author	Time	Post
Panic grips Iceland after volcano hit by biggest earthquake tremors in 40 years [View all]	Judi Lynn	Aug 2016	OP
"Katla, named after an evil troll, is in southern Iceland about 87 miles from Reykjavik."	Coyotl	Aug 2016	#1
Yes, and an eruption of Katla has been predicted for the last 3 years	Warpy	Aug 2016	#3
Nah, the ones that go "boom" every few hundred years arent the ones that I would worry to much	cstanleytech	Aug 2016	#9
Worry about the ones that release enough toxic gas to depopulate European areas downwind.	Coyotl	Aug 2016	#12
Right, most of North America will be wiped out in weeks	Warpy	Aug 2016	#14
Well the deep freeze parts debatable but it likely would cause massive famine and starvation	cstanleytech	Aug 2016	#15
I live right in the path of that	gopiscrap	Aug 2016	#16
K&R nt	lillypaddle	Aug 2016	#2
Hasn't erupted since 1918	canetoad	Aug 2016	#4
Iceland is always cracking open - fire and ice, the olde Gods awaken, Thor's hammer!	Baclava	Aug 2016	#5
Nice pix	canetoad	Aug 2016	#17
SO has planned an early Oct trip to Ireland a month long Katla eruption	HereSince1628	Aug 2016	#6
Oh no... Then translatlantic flights will be disrupted.	Helen Borg	Aug 2016	#7
Hurray! Clear skies!	Nihil	Aug 2016	#8
you live in the Atlantic Ocean?	snooper2	Aug 2016	#10
Nope, Southern England ...	Nihil	Aug 2016	#13
Panic grips newsreaders as they have to learn how to pronounce the latest Icelandic volcano	muriel_volestrangler	Aug 2016	#11

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