Now this will be interesting
From the
UK Telegraph:
Volcanic 'geyser' erupts close to Rome airport
Motorists on Saturday were alarmed to notice hot, stinking gas spurting from a newly formed crater in the middle of a roundabout close to the perimeter fence of Rome�s Fiumicino airport -- less than 900 yards from the end of a runway.
Spectators gathered around the smoking crater, which measured about six feet wide and three feet deep, before firefighters and vulcanologists arrived to seal off the roundabout to prevent inhalation of the gas, suspected to be a cocktail of carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane. Tests are now underway.
While initial reports suggested the gas came from rotting organic matter trapped underground, one expert said volcanic activity was more likely.
�From Mount Etna in Sicily up to the Alban hills around Rome there is a good deal of underground volcanic activity,� Alberto Basili, a seismologist at the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology, told the Daily Telegraph.
I am reminded of a
similar event in a farmer's cornfield back in 1943 -- Mt. Paricutin grew to over 9,000 feet in a few years.
Posted by DaveH at August 25, 2013 8:27 PM