Episode #943
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Bald Eagles
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
About 30% of the world’s population live under potential threat from volcanic activity. https://appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13617-017-0067-4
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Item #2
Science
The Pacific Ring of Fire contains 75% of the world’s volcanoes, and is the location of 90% of all earthquakes. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/plate-tectonics-ring-fire/
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Item #3
Science
The largest recorded volcanic eruption was Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed about 100,000 people, and rated a 7/8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. https://www.livescience.com/11001-11-wild-volcano-facts.html
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.’ – Karl Popper