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To: Kevin Curry
Or it could be a much smaller blast with a continuous weeping of magma, with little or no effect.
34 posted on 01/01/2004 8:49:32 PM PST by Porterville (Every time a liberal speaks an angel is shackled in chains.)
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To: Porterville
Is there some way the pressure could be let off more gradually, such as digging into the magma?
42 posted on 01/01/2004 8:51:18 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Porterville
Another site relates that there have been more than a dozen smaller eruptions in the past 600,000 years--smaller, but still very powerful.
47 posted on 01/01/2004 8:51:58 PM PST by Kevin Curry ("When I was growing, we didn't even treat the servants like servants." Andree Dean, Howie's mom)
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