[Psycho_Bunny]

Wired had a tidbit on this article:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/fearmongering-gets-started-in-2012-laacher-see-is-not-ready-to-blow/

[george76]

Thanks

[Strategerist]

Yep, Klementi’s volcano blog at Wired is pretty awesome - he really savages this crappy article.

One other thing is that actually nobody has ever been able to agree on the definition of a “supervolcano” but Laacher See definitely isn’t one - the eruption 12,000 years ago was indeed enormous, but the VEI was 6 (indeed similar to Pinatubo) but that’s drastically less than a VEI 8 like Yellowstone, a genuine supervolcanic eruption.