Boom! Forget terror attacks, the real reason for an orange alert in NYC has to do with ... rocks. I'll bet you've never heard of
Cumbre Vieja. In fact, if the first hit on a google
search for something is a PDF, you
know it's obscure.
(It's a volcano in the Canaries). If it erupts, it'll spell the end for Washington, New York and Boston (and parts of Europe will get a bit wet.) Hoo!
Now, short of hoping it will go away, there's nothing you can do, because it will take
35 million years to dismantle the dangerous bits of rock. Instead, the boffins are talking about evacuating the east coast.
Yet more obscure places you wish you could forget menacing the future of the US, hey?
posted by bonaldi
on Aug 9, 2004 -
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