Volcanos: Earth's most fierce expression

[scho63]

I am watching online both photos and videos of the eruption of Iceland's volcano, something that laid dormant for 800 years.

It is both incredibly beautiful and incredibly scary simultaneously.

It is amazing to know that suddenly the Earth could blow it's top and this fiery inferno spills out and flows all over, quickly incinerating everything in it's path.

Hurricanes, tornados, cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, drought, extreme cold, extreme heat, hail, snow, blizzards, rain, flooding, wind have nothing on this king of all nature's expression of fury.

I have never been to Hawaii to see the Kīlauea volcano but can't imagine being caught up in that.

Have any of you CP members seen one up close and what is it like?

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Scooter LaCanforno

Do you know that Volcanic eruptions actually lower global temperatures???

the 1991 Pinatubo/Philippines Volcano was thought to cause the midwest flooding of 1993.

[Scooter LaCanforno]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

the 1991 Pinatubo/Philippines Volcano was thought to cause the midwest flooding of 1993.

Pinatubo lowered global temperatures by 0.9 degrees F.