EcoAlert --Iceland's Laki Volcano may be Poised for a Massive Historic Eruption

EcoAlert --Iceland's Laki Volcano may be Poised for a Massive Historic Eruption: "What if one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recent history happened today? A new study suggests that a blast akin to the Laki eruption that devastated Iceland in the 1780s would waft noxious gases southwestward and kill tens of thousands of people in Europe. And in a modern world that is intimately connected by air traffic and international trade, economic activity across much of Europe, including the production and import of food, could plummet. At least four Laki-sized eruptions have occurred in Iceland in the past 1,150 years."

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