Popocatépetl.
Behind this friendly name stands one of the most dangerous volcanoes on the planet.
A mountain which, if it released all its lava, would threaten the entire city of Mexico.
And including a recent plume of smoke led to the suspension of around twenty flights.
The students of the region, we see in the documentary, prepare for all eventualities.
“Drowning volcanoes are more dangerous
,” recalls a young schoolgirl.
We don't know when they will wake up.
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Shamans prefer not to anger the skies and speak well of the volcanoes that dot the region.
They even belong to local folklore.
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Dormant volcanoes, giants under close surveillance
jump from one continent to another.
On the globe, 67 metropolises would be threatened in the same way as Mexico City.
The voice-over also takes a certain pleasure in describing the calamities that could affect them.
This film shot in 2015 is interesting as soon as white coats appear.
Scientists are analyzing, for example, how a volcano in the 5th century favored the spread of the plague in Constantinople.
Pandemic which recorded up to 10,000 deaths per day.
Memories of Eyjafjallajökull
The clouds, due to the eruption, were black with sulfur, which prevented the sun's rays from passing through.
The temperature dropped, the harvests diminished, the inhabitants grew weaker.
The ideal conditions for an illness.
Reconstructions immerse us in a Constantinople of fire and blood.
It's rare enough to be noted, they wouldn't stand out in a fiction film.
We then learn that the sulfur which obstructed the sky had been spat out... in El Salvador, in Central America.
The eruption of Ilopango, ten times more powerful than that of Vesuvius, had consequences 10,000 kilometers away.
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There are other examples in history of this kind of phenomenon.
The explosion of the Indonesian Tambora in 1815 transformed even the skies of Europe.
Turner's paintings bear witness to this.
Today, we would not be safe from new disasters.
Images of the last major European eruption, that of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, replay on the screen.
It led to the suspension of flights across the continent.
And put the TV news presenters to grief.