The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii just started erupting again, after being pretty much quiet for the last two years. A small lake had formed in the bottom of the volcano, so when it erupted, it first turned the lake into steam, So are there have not been evacuations that I have heard of. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/kilauea-volcano-erupts-on-hawaiis-big-island/ Now, Mount Etna in Sicily has also become active after an earthquake there. No one seems to know if the two are related at this point, but it will be interesting to see if we have more activity. Some people think it might be connected to the planet conjunction we just had with Saturn and Jupiter , but that seems to be just conjecture at this point. Photo of Mt. Etna.
How ‘Silent Night’ Originated From The Most Powerful Volcanic Eruption In Modern History (link) "Silent Night" (in German "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") is nowadays a popular Christmas carol existing in many versions recorded by many singers across many music genres". "The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the district of Lungau on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. After river flooding had damaged the church organ, a young priest, Father Joseph Mohr, asked Franz Xaver Gruber, a local school teacher, church organist and composer, to compose a simple melody and guitar accompaniment for a song he had written in 1816". "The winter of 1816/17 began early. In some parts of Austria the temperatures fell as low as -20°C. A contemporary article reports that "No one recalls such immense and destructive snow masses and avalanches as fell in this season." The harvests of cereal, hay and potato could not be brought in, causing widespread famine. The cold weather contributed to infectious diseases spread. The Lungau district was isolated by "an enormous amount of snow." It was in this sorrowful situation that the twenty-four-year-old Mohr composed "Silent Night, Holy Night" to lighten up the mood of his community. Mohr couldn't imagine that the bad weather was caused by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in modern history". The collapsed Tambora as seen from space. "In spring 1815, the Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia, erupted. An estimated 12,000 people were killed by the eruption in the first hours, as the explosion caused a series of pyroclastic flows, earthquakes and tsunami. Based on the reconstructed volume of erupted material, the Tambora eruption was a VEI 7, the most powerful eruption in the last 1,000 years".