>how often are big eruptions followed by even bigger eruptions? Extremely often. Just like earthquakes, the #1 predictor of a big quake is a smaller quake shor

>how often are big eruptions followed by even bigger eruptions? Extremely often. Just like earthquakes, the #1 predictor of a big quake is a smaller quake shortly before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993wlZ6XFSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993wlZ6XFSs (not an eruption, but eruptions are a type of explosion) Another - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJ2Z6hrCPc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNJ2Z6hrCPc There's no way to know if you're dealing with that until after the fact. A lot of the gawkers taking video ended up with serious injuries (not sure they all survived, some of those videos are quite close in retrospect)