Will a volcanic eruption be a burp or a blast?
Perhaps monitoring from space will become the best way to see future phreatic eruptions coming. But so far, no successful long-term forecast of a phreatic eruption has taken place. 鈥淧hreatic eruptions are terrifying,鈥 said , a volcanologist and seismologist at Western Washington University. 鈥淵ou really don鈥檛 know they鈥檙e coming.鈥