The deadliest volcanic event in history.
The deadliest volcanic event in history.
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On June 14, 1783, the third and most violent explosive eruption of the laki volcano occurred, located in Iceland, whose activity began on June 8 and continued for eight months, in Iceland the earth literally opened, because the laki did not shows the typical image of the volcano with a mountain with a crater on top that ejects lava.
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Experts estimate that this event directly or indirectly killed some 6 million people and plunged European peasants into misery, historians believe that the situation was one of the engines that set fire to the French Revolution.
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This laki eruption was not the first nor will it be the last, Iceland is an island with a surface area of just over 100,000 square kilometers that is similar to the surface of Cuba or Guatemala, it was created by volcanic action on the mid-Atlantic ridge, which is a huge crack that runs through the Atlantic Ocean from which that ocean is expanding.
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😮 I didn't know that story. When I read the title I thought it was about Pompeii. Thanks for the important information.🙂
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