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Four of Iceland's Main Volcanoes Are All Preparing For Eruption (icelandmonitor.mbl.is)
Vulcanologists always watch Iceland carefully -- it's the one exposed place on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with 130 different volcanoes -- and something big may be brewing. Applehu Akbar writes: Now that four of Iceland's largest volcanoes are showing signs of impending eruption, the world may be in for another summer of ash. Katla, Hecla, Bárðarbunga and Grímsvötn have all had major activity in the past, including vast floods from melting glaciers, enough ash to ground aircraft over all of Europe, volumes of sulfur that have induced global nuclear winter for a decade at a time, and clouds of poisonous fluoride gas. When the mountains of Iceland speak, the whole world listens.
Eruptions are already overdue for both Hekla and Katla -- Hekla's magma chamber has filled up, and Katla last erupted in 1918. "The Katla eruption would lead to the melting of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, resulting in a glacial flood," reports Tech Times, "likely to hit areas where large crowds are found at any given point of time, especially the black sand beaches of Sólheimasandur and the village of Vik in Southern Iceland."
Eruptions are already overdue for both Hekla and Katla -- Hekla's magma chamber has filled up, and Katla last erupted in 1918. "The Katla eruption would lead to the melting of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, resulting in a glacial flood," reports Tech Times, "likely to hit areas where large crowds are found at any given point of time, especially the black sand beaches of Sólheimasandur and the village of Vik in Southern Iceland."
Mother Earth stands ready to combat global warming with some nice ash clouds. Thus saving civilization as we know it.
Or wiping it out entirely .....
(Just depends on your point of view.)
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
From WikiPedia
The flood discharge at the peak of an eruption in 1755 has been estimated at 200,000–400,000 m3/s (7.1-14.1 million cu ft/sec), comparable to the combined average discharge of the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers (about 266,000 m3/s (9.4 million cu ft/sec)).
THAT is a lot of warm water.
It's a trap!
volumes of sulfur that have induced global nuclear winter for a decade at a time
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Glacier outburst floods are known as "jökulhlaups" in geology, an Icelandic word since it has been the scene of many historic floods of this type.
In 1755 a jökulhlaup from the Katla volcano had a peak flow of up to 400,000 cubic meters/second, about 20 times the flow rate of the Mississippi River, or twice that of the Amazon, making it briefly the largest river in the world.
But that's not the only destructive aspect of Iceland's volcanoes. In 1783 the eruption of the Laki volcano released 14 cubic kilometers of basalt and 1 cubic kilometer of airborne ash. It killed 25% of Iceland's population through poison gas: 500 million tons of hydrogen fluoride and sulfur dioxide were released poisoning the population and the livestock. The fatalities were both from direct poisoning (mostly from the hydrogen fluoride) and later starvation since most of the livestock was killed. The toxic cloud affected much of Europe as well, though not as severely. This eruption also created a three-year long period of unseasonable cold in the northern hemisphere leading to famine killing thousands, and possibly contributing to the French Revolution.
Starships were meant to fly, Hands up and touch the sky - Nicky Minaj
this will happen more and more often. The Republicans will just find new ways to lie to their selves that AGW doesn't exist.
Is the Tech Times article click bait or plagerized? It reads like it was copied, translated by machine, and pasted into somebody else's byline. Broken English quotes are fine, but at least have the pride to edit the copy by hand before publishing. Anne Baker sounds like someone who can write native English, if I can be so presumptive
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
ord.
Katla: I'm going to explode now :-) any second.. 5.. 4.. 3..
Hecla: No sorry you can't you haven't prepared.
Katla: What, prepare? man I want TO EXPLODE NOW, how to prepare???
Hecla, You have to notify the airlines, fill the right govt forms.
Katla what...... boooooooooommmmmmmmm
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You got it backwards. Katla's the one that would go off without giving the airlines any notice. It's actually a serious safety issue; some people are arguing for a permanent no-fly zone over her, because she tends to go off with no warning whatsoever. Not always, but often. And she tends to have explosive eruptions. It's doubtful that an airplane approaching her would have time to divert before the ash cloud reached it.
I spent the evening flickering into your darkness.
Here's some more scientific research on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle
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There world would have to make a major effort to move food production to Australia, South America, South Africa, NZ
to prevent mas starvation which would happen if the eruptions turn into something really big.
And of course it wont do much for Iceland tourist trade !
You can't have nuclear winter induced by a volcano. There's no nuke involved. (also, read "Comrade J")
I recently saw someone post that the most recent winter storm in the U.S. was caused by Mother Earth being pissed off at us because of the drilling related to the Dakota Access pipeline. Good grief.
Come on guys, Rei deserves a much higher score, mod him up some more!
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
So if I got it right, then after the next 'event' the Icelandics will ask Europe for help, which then will list the following demands:
Free our friends the bankers that you (rightfully) have imprisoned,
Accept a privately owned, Rothschild controlled central bank,
Borrow loads of money from our private banks for rebuilding of your country by our construction companies, so in the future you will be under our control, forever.
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
OH MY. See what is happening under the core of the planet? Man-Made GLOBAL WARMING!!! Even under the surface of the planet. All that mining has caused this. OH NO. Let's go back to using stone tools and turn off all those evil computers that are sucking up all that energy turning it into even more warning.
God, Help us. We are too stupid to realize the truth.
Yes, loads of solar and wind power that will rescue these ppl for the next couple of months while these volcanoes errupt and fill the skies.
Oh WAIT. Thank god that they are not 100% dependent on solar based energy (solar, wind, and hydro), because they are about to have it
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
From the statement that 'four of Iceland's largest volcanoes are showing signs of impending eruption' it sounds like that is unusual. I wondered if there were other signs of tectonic activity so I went to the USGS site at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear... and downloaded some data. It would only let me download 20,000 events to a CSV so I took all data since 1/1/98 of 6.5+ on the Richter scale. Once that is thrown into a pivot table and a regression analysis done, it shows a very clear time linear regression of increasing moderate-intensity earthquake activity over the last 20 years. If this apparent trend is not a statistical fluke then let us hope it is due to some natural process and not a particle collider produced microscopic black hole oscillating back and forth through the earth's core exponentially accreting mass like this guy claims http://www.science20.com/big_s... since we don't actually know if Hawking Radiation is real and if it is how quickly it would make a black hole evaporate.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
And every now and then, the volcanoes of Iceland will erupt, cooling the planet. Of course, since the planet is still warning, each time we need bigger and bigger eruptions. Thus, solving the problem once and for all.
"In recent years, more houses have been built in areas that were previously uninhabited"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
. . . damned real estate developer!
Put a bag around Iceland, and make them pay for it.
If I say it's safe to surf this beach, then it's safe to surf this beach! Gunnarson don't surf!
And yet governments put it in our water supplies.
Errrr,
"Rah ! rah ! Rei !" ??
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
So, a more derived (higher silica/ more viscous) magma, most likely. Implying a larger upper-crustal (5-15km depth) magma chamber for differentiation than for the other volcanoes. Interesting.
I'll keep on watching the earthquake reports. And I'll try to get the ö in jökullhlaup right more often until you get your thorn and I can type ÐÐÐÐ (Cyrillic, like :paka") without problems.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Co-Pilot to ATC : "One of our pilots is missing!"
ATC to Co-Pilot : "Good film but what's your message?"
Co-Pilot to ATC : "Also, one of our wings is missing, and half of the fuselage. We were flying over Katla."
ATC to Co-Pilot : "Thanks for the warning. We'll try to find your bodies when it's all over."
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Because Mother Nature isn't a bitch, but he doesn't give a shit about any of the skin rash they've got.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"