Laacher See

Laacher See (leeterally: Loch Laach; German pronunciation: [ˈlaːxɐ ˈzeː]) is a volcanic caldera loch locatit in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The diameter is 2 km (1.2 mi), an it is locatit 24 km (15 mi) from Koblenz, 8 km (5.0 mi) from Andernach an the Rhine river, an 37 km (23 mi) from Bonn. Its last volcanic eruption, which wis a Plinian eruption, wis aroond 11,000 B.C., wi a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) o 6, havin the same magnitude as the Plinian eruption o Munt Pinatubo in 1991. It is pairt o the Eifel region, an the East Eifel Volcanic Region, which wis formed after the collision o the African an Eurasian continents millions o yeirs ago. Bubbles o odorless CO2 gas called mofettas are released from the loch, which means that the volcanae is dormant. Tae the west o the loch is the Maria Laach Aibey, built in 1092 by Henry II o Laach, Coont o the Hoose o Luxembourg. References Freemit airtins Continuous event display of the 10 most recent registered seismic activities measured from the Laacher See Apokalypse im Rheintal (Cornelia Park und Hans-Ulrich Schmincke) Martin Hensch, etal.: Deep low-frequency earthquakes reveal ongoing magmatic recharge beneath Laacher See Volcano (Eifel, Germany). Geophys. J. Int. (2019) 216, 2025–2036 doi:10.1093/gji/ggy532 Michael W. Förster, Frank Sirocko: Volcanic activity in the Eifel during the last 500,000 years: The ELSA-Tephra-Stack .Global and Planetary Change (2016) (PDF)