About That 'Something Called 'Volcano Monitoring'

'Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington.'
- Governor Bobby Jindal, February 24, 2009

If this video is any indication, both eruptions have the potential to do a lot of damage and it seems to me they're not mutually exclusive. So let's keep an eye on each.

(And spare the fruit fly funding too).

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The eruption at Eyjafjallajökull-Fimmvörduháls continues on - the explosive spatter and bomb eruptions at the new central vent (on the second fissure) were
The fissure vent eruption on Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland on March 21, 2010.

Why spend money on volcano monitoring when the Internet will do it for us for free?

If a volcano erupts in the middle of the ocean and there is no video camera there to record it, does it make a sound?