…the most prominent volcanic feature of the South Island. Geologically, the peninsula comprises the eroded remnants of two large composite shield volcanoes (Lyttelton formed first, then Akaroa). These formed due to intraplate volcanism between approximately eleven and eight million years ago (Miocene) on a continental crust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It is remotely possible that volcanic activity is returning to the area. I have been informed that there has been “a strong smell of sulphur wafting from the ground in several places, and hot water emerging in the harbour, and off Rapaki”<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Might be nothing, but the Laacher See volcano in Germany erupted around the time of (perhaps) the last global cataclysm – roughly 12,900 years ago. While scientists say it wasn’t responsible for much back then,
\nThe Laacher eruption coincides with the onset of the abrupt\u00a0Younger Dryas re-glaciation, which brought renewed very cold conditions to the northern hemisphere from 12.9 to 11.6 ka. However, any relationship between this climate change and the eruption is speculative; eruptions of the size of the Laacher See eruption usually cause only short-term global cooling.
\n…speculations do exist. Combine that with this:
\nToday the region near Koblenz was shaken by a swarm of 7 earthquakes beginning with a 4.5 magnitude quake which erupted at a depth of 6 km.
\n…and it might be something else to worry about.
\n—
\nIn other volcano news, seems that Christchurch (where several hundred people died in a recent earthquake) is like much of the rest of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}