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Has God got something ELSE in store for us? Italy may be the next site for a huge natural disaster. Europe’s largest undersea volcano could explode, creating a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy at any time. An Italian vulcanologist says, “It could even happen tomorrow.”

Yahoo News quotes Enzo Boschi as saying, “Our latest research shows that the volcano is not structurally solid, its walls are fragile, the magma chamber is of sizeable dimensions.”

It happened to humans in the past: We know that dinosaurs became extinct due to an asteroid impact, but why did they rise to such power in the first place? It turns out this was caused 200 million years ago by volcanoes.
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It’s Mount St. Helen’s again! – Is there a supervolcano lurking underneath Mount St. Helens in Washington State, which already erupted in 1980? Scientists now have special instruments that enable them to “peek” beneath the seemingly dormant volcano, and they have seen a large amount of semi-molten rock, which could set off another eruption at any time.

A supervolcano is a major eruption that can send up enough ash into the atmosphere to block sunlight for years, thus cooling off the planet (which might be just what we need right now. Together with the lack of sunspots, the earth may be desperately trying to save itself). Since these only occur about once every hundred thousand years, scientists tend to ignore this very real threat.
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Volcanoes may have originally been the source of life on Earth. But today they cause death, and nearly 500 million people live close enough to the planet’s 600 currently active volcanoes. We need to find a way to PREDICT when these mountains are going to explode!
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