volcanoes

A very interesting, new video of a deep underwater volcanic eruption. http://news.discovery.com/earth/did-noaa-see-fire-underwater.html The story explains some of what you are seeing. Not sure I'm convinced by his explanation, hough.

Damn Americans One day the Yellowstone caldaria explodes, as it does every 700,000 years or so. The initial eruption killed 25 million people. Red hot projectiles of magma were blasted high into the atmosphere, to rain down on cities as faraway as Las Vegas, St Lous, Los Angeles and San...

I know that this doesn't mean that there is any danger of an imminent eruption, but I thought the article was interesting. Based on the timing outlined in the article, Yellowstone is about "due" for an eruption...plus or minus a few tens of thousands of years, but it seems like it is not...

On the 30th of September, the volcano Jabal Al'tair in the Red Sea erupted and a multi-national NATO task-force became involved in the rescue of several Yemeni Soldiers. (PDF Version) The eruption took place at a strategic location in the Red Sea and is still ongoing. Given the fact that the...

The volcano discussion in the Banwatch thread reminded me that there is a conspiracy surrounding the Yellowston Super Volcano. http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1852.cfm The "russian woodpecker" is supposedly a (now turned off) soviet system that gave off regular electromagnetic signals in the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5258806.stm Can this possibly be relevant?

It has just occurred to me, the world's largest volcano is not as one would expect in Indonesia, Hawaii or Japan - or even Yellowstone (a volcano which could be 1000 time more explosive than Mt St Helens did in 1980) . But in one of the more unlikely places not known for it's volcanic activity...