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The volcano that erupted in Iceland last year and disrupted the world’s air traffic is about to do it again. Volcanologists say that Eyjafjallajokull threatens to send out a cloud of dust and it could even set off a swarm of earthquakes around the world. The February 8th edition of the Telegraph quotes geophysicist Pall Einarsson as saying we have a "good reason to worry." Earthquake tremors to the northeast of the remote volcano range are the strongest recorded in recent times and Einarsson says there is "no doubt" that the lava was rising.
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Two thousand years ago Mount Vesuvius exploded and destroyed Pompeii. Today, a larger, more deadly supervolcano called Campi Flegrei, on the other side of Naples, shows signs of getting restless. If it erupts, it could wipe out all life in Europe.

Campi Flegrei is an active four-mile-wide sunken volcano which hides beneath the seemingly placid landscape. If (when?) it erupts, it will throw hundreds of billions of cubic feet of volcanic rock up into the atmosphere, in an explosion 200 times greater than that of the Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which grounded planes in Europe for a week and cost the world $3 billion.
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Something ominous could be on the way: ANOTHER huge underwater volcano may erupt soon (and no, it’s not Katla or Laki).

Just off Italy’s southwestern coast, beneath the Tyrrhenian Sea, lies Marsili, which is Europe’s biggest underwater volcano. Geologists have recently discovered that its walls are weakening and could collapse at any moment, sending thousands of tons of magma into the sea. This would set off a tsunami that could engulf the coast of southern Italy, drowning Calabria and Campania, as well as the island of Sicily.

The Ethiopian Review quotes volcanologist Filipo Muccini as saying, “This could happen due to an eruption, seismic events or another scenario, and these factors can change the equilibrium of the volcano.”
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Volcano, that is – While the effects of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull are slowly beginning to dissipate, there are new worries about the Katla volcano, which is hidden beneath another ice cap 12 miles away. It erupts much more often than Eyjafjallajokull and with much greater force and an even larger plume of ash.
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