[Sca-cooks] Bidding for Count Gunthar

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Phil Anderson <urizen at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> Mount St Helens doesn't really rate compared to
> Caidan volcanoes...
>  :-)
>
> Find a map of New Zealand. Look at the North Island.
> Note New
> Zealand's biggest lake, Taupo, in the middle of the
> North Island...
>
> That's a volcano. Last time it went off, which was
> not its biggest
> eruption, it's theorised that the blast was heard in
> China. This was
> the world's largest volcanic eruption in the last
> few thousand years,
> and the biggest ones are nearly an order of
> magnitude bigger than
> that. Compared to a major Taupo eruption, Mt St
> Helens is down
> around damp-firework status.

I hate to contradict you but there was a very
interesting documentary about Krakatoa earlier this
year which said that, while its eruption during the
19th Century was huge, its previous eruption was the
"world's largest volcanic eruption", in the 14th
Century, which was also heard in China, and that all
the particulate matter that was sent into the air
caused the mini Ice Age that Europe and North America
experienced during that century.  They labeled
Krakatoa the most dangerous volcano in the world.

Me, I say ALL volcanos are dangerous and should be
kept at a distance.

Huette


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