The American Dream Is Becoming A Nightmare And Life As We Know It Is About To Change
By Michael Snyder, on November 1st, 2015
More
than 25 million people live in the vicinity of North America’s
2nd-highest volcano, and in recent weeks this volcano has been steadily
rumbling and has been spewing out massive amounts of black smoke and
ash. I have previously written about “the most dangerous mountain in
the United States” (
Mt. Rainier),
but if the volcano that I am talking about today experiences a
full-blown explosive eruption it could potentially be a cataclysmic
event beyond what most of us would dare to imagine. Popocatepetl is an
Aztec word that means “smoking mountain”, and it is also the name of a
giant volcano that sits approximately 50 miles away from Mexico City’s
18 million residents.
“Popo”, as it is called by locals, was dormant
for much of the 20th century, but it came back to life in 1994. And now
all of this unusual activity in recent weeks has many wondering if a
major eruption may be imminent.
Historians tell us that
Popocatepetl had a dramatic impact on the ancient Aztecs. Giant mud
flows produced by massive eruptions covered entire Aztec cities. In
fact, some of these mud flows were so large that they buried
entire pyramids in super-heated mud.
But
we haven’t witnessed anything like that in any of our lifetimes, so it
is hard to even imagine devastation of that magnitude.
In addition
to Mexico City’s mammoth population, there are millions of others that
live in the surrounding region. Overall, there are about 25 million
people that live in the immediate vicinity of Popocatepetl. Thankfully,
we haven’t seen a major eruption of the volcano in modern times, but at
some point that will change.
As most of you already know, Mexico
sits on the “Ring of Fire” that stretches along the outer rim of the
Pacific Ocean. Over the past couple of years seismic activity
throughout this area has started to really heat up, and
according to Volcano Discovery there are dozens of volcanoes associated with the Ring of Fire that have recently erupted.
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By Michael Snyder, on November 8th, 2015
