An excellent visual tour of Benford's Law: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march52012/index.html http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march52012/index.html My und

An excellent visual tour of Benford's Law: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march52012/index.html http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march52012/index.html My understanding of this law is that any collection of real-world data/metrics should follow this distribution pattern. There may be exceptions in which there are other factors influencing the data, but most should follow this "law". In that case, I don't see what is surprising about volcanic eruptions following this law. I would have assumed it already did (well, I suppose you have to already know about this law first to assume that).