Deep Quakes Reveal That Magma Is Moving Beneath An Ancient German Volcano - News Summed Up

Deep Quakes Reveal That Magma Is Moving Beneath An Ancient German Volcano


Just take Germany’s Laacher See Volcano (LSV), found in the Eifel mountain range within the Rhineland-Palatinate state. A new study, published in Geophysical Journal International, reveals that there are some curious rumblings going on beneath LSV. The seismic network then, in all likelihood, has identified the movement of magma beneath the LSV, and it appears that it’s moving in a vertical (i.e. Interestingly, the shallowest of the DLF quakes are beneath the magma reservoir that is thought to have fed the caldera-forming paroxysm 12,900 years ago. Hensch explains that although the volcanic system could reactivate, this could take thousands to tens of thousands of years.


Source: Forbes January 22, 2019 08:26 UTC



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