Japanese volcano erupts

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43 points·anon1385··10 comments

This is starting to look like a really difficult game of Sim City.

So correlation != causation but...

Shinmoedake erupted recently (Feb 1), was quiet since March 1st and has now erupted again. Interestingly it has been showing increasing activity the last couple of years (eruptions in 1716, 1717, 1771, 1822, 1959, 1991, 2008, and 2009). One could perhaps draw some arbitrary links between these dates and significant earthquake activity, but that would probably be taking it too far.

An Indonesian volcano (Karangetang) also erupted following the recent earthquakes (Hawaii had smaller unrelated quakes as well which I wasn't aware of).

Russian volcanoes also erupted following the quakes (accompanied by smaller quakes).

Correlation with what? The earthquake? The supermoon correlation is quite intriguing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/extreme-supermoon-2011-3

Yeah I heard about that but thought it might be a bit far-fetched. Yeah I meant correlation with the earthquake (the articles I read strongly mentioned that the volcanoes are coincidental, not necessarily related causally).

Now only Godzilla is missing.

That and a zombie epidemic...

You forgot the alien invasion!

Don't forget the meteor shower...

Isn't the Icelandic volcano called Eyafjallajokull? Did he misspell it that bad?

Apparently, the name Eyafjöll (which is used in the article with the ö changed to oe) refers to part of the site of the famous Icelandic volcano. From Wikipedia: "The name Eyjafjöll describes the southern side of the volcanic massif together with the small mountains which form the foot of the volcano".

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