Ashes to Ashes

摘要

CALIFORNIANS ARE FAMILIAR with all kinds of natural disas-ters: earthquakes, landslides and wildfires, to name a few. But are they ready for a volcanic eruption? They'd better be, the U.S. Geologi-cal Survey (USGS) says. A new report points out that the state has eight volcanic areas that could spring to geologic life. And the odds of one of them posing a problem are on par with the odds of a major quake along the San Andreas Fault.