You don't know what volcano monitoring is? Did you stay away in Geology 101?
Alaska and Hawaii, man, we live in the paths of these things. You monitor them to protect people living in harms way. Oh, and these things cause plane crashes and major disruptions to airline traffic.
Mount Saint Helens, anyone?
Damn, for someone from Louisianna, you don't know bupkis about a natural disaster. Have we learned anything about preparing for disaster? Are we looking to see why the seismic shift in our financial system is happening? And we're worried about volcano monitoring?
Back to your normally scheduled blues programming.