[Island Chris]

Went to Rangitoto island, the youngest volcano in the Auckland NZ field. Last eruption finished 600 years ago. There are footprints in the ash at the next island, so was witnessed from close. Meeting is over, so I walked from near downtown to Eden Hill. Check out the parks in Auckland on Google earth: if they are a hill, and round, they have a crater and are volcanoes. A quake beneath or near, say, LA would not be good, and aftershocks would become part of life for weeks and months. But imagine a volcano erupting for 100-200 years in a city! Not as violent and deadly as Naples Italy, but would get old pretty quickly.

Chris