* 4.5 quake 6 km - Germany
* 3.2 quake 11 km - Germany
* 2.4 quake 12 km - Germany
* 3.7 quake 20 km - Germany
* 2.1 quake 20 km - Germany
* 3.4 quake 12 km - Germany
* 2.0 quake 10 km - Germany
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Earth Changes
* 4.5 quake 6 km - Germany
* 3.2 quake 11 km - Germany
* 2.4 quake 12 km - Germany
* 3.7 quake 20 km - Germany
* 2.1 quake 20 km - Germany
* 3.4 quake 12 km - Germany
* 2.0 quake 10 km - Germany
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Reader Comments
Much too small for supervolcano!
[Link]along with other sites I have looked at defines a Supervolcano as a volcano that is capable of delivering 1000km^3 of ejecta, corresponding to level 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index scale (VEI).
For more on VEI: [Link]
The Eifel volcano is not listed as having been a supervolcano within the last 50 million years. For those volcanoes that have been see [Link]
The eruption that the Eifel volcano delivered 12.900 years ago is estimated to have been a category VEI 6 eruption delivering 6 km^3 of ejecta according to [Link]
Actually when one looks at the VEI index 6 km^3 only counts as a VEI 5 eruption or in the VEI range of the Mount St Helens eruption of 1980 see [Link]though that one is estimated to have produced about 1 km^3 of ash. A better comparison would be the the 1991 eruption on Mount Pinatubo which ejected an between 6 - 16 km^3 of ejecta making it a VEI5-VEI6 eruption see [Link]
There is summary of a paper on the effects at a distance, North-East Germany, from the eruption of the Eifel volcano 12.900 years ago on the ecology in surrounding areas: [Link]
Then I looked into the German sites and found [Link]and indeed there has been a recent symposium about the Eifel volcano on the 15th of January 2011. In the memorandum it is mentioned that the last eruption in the area was from Ulmener Maar 11000 years ago. To download the memorandum [Link]
[Link]along with other sites I have looked at defines a Supervolcano as a volcano that is capable of delivering 1000km^3 of ejecta, corresponding to level 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index scale (VEI).
For more on VEI: [Link]
The Eifel volcano is not listed as having been a supervolcano within the last 50 million years. For those volcanoes that have been see [Link]
The eruption that the Eifel volcano delivered 12.900 years ago is estimated to have been a category VEI 6 eruption delivering 6 km^3 of ejecta according to [Link]
Actually when one looks at the VEI index 6 km^3 only counts as a VEI 5 eruption or in the VEI range of the Mount St Helens eruption of 1980 see [Link]though that one is estimated to have produced about 1 km^3 of ash. A better comparison would be the the 1991 eruption on Mount Pinatubo which ejected an between 6 - 16 km^3 of ejecta making it a VEI5-VEI6 eruption see [Link]
There is summary of a paper on the effects at a distance, North-East Germany, from the eruption of the Eifel volcano 12.900 years ago on the ecology in surrounding areas: [Link]
Then I looked into the German sites and found [Link]and indeed there has been a recent symposium about the Eifel volcano on the 15th of January 2011. In the memorandum it is mentioned that the last eruption in the area was from Ulmener Maar 11000 years ago. To download the memorandum [Link]
How soon the end?
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
Matt 24:58
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
Matt 24:58
Earthquakes
There were more earthquakes near Laacher See: There was a swarm of 15 small earthquakes (magnitude 0,1-2,2) only 7 km south of Laacher See last week! I’m living in Germany(100 km north of Laacher See) and an eruption of this volcano would be the extinction of three of the largest towns in Germany! But there was no 5,6 earthquake on July 30, 2010 in this region, there was an 3,6 earthquake 150 km south of Laacher See: [Link]
There were more earthquakes near Laacher See: There was a swarm of 15 small earthquakes (magnitude 0,1-2,2) only 7 km south of Laacher See last week! I’m living in Germany(100 km north of Laacher See) and an eruption of this volcano would be the extinction of three of the largest towns in Germany! But there was no 5,6 earthquake on July 30, 2010 in this region, there was an 3,6 earthquake 150 km south of Laacher See: [Link]
I'm living in germany and I didn't know that here is a super-vulcano, too.
"...scientists believe that a new eruption could happen at any time" really ?