Icelandic Volcano Could Blow Any Moment

[dronefromsector7g]

:-(

Make that double :-(

At least with me, it's only the flight over, one night's accommodation and the match ticket. About €300. Would be worse if it was a wek or so out in Spain/Cyprus/wherever.

I'm doing 2 nights in Barcelona, 3 of us but very cheap, and not for 5 weeks yet

 

[jimharri]

Make that double :-(

At least with me, it's only the flight over, one night's accommodation and the match ticket. About €300. Would be worse if it was a week or so out in Spain/Cyprus/wherever.

I'm doing 2 nights in Barcelona, 3 of us but very cheap, and not for 5 weeks yet

You'll probably be okay then. If it's going to blow, it'll probably have done so long before then.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

At least with me, it's only the flight over, one night's accommodation and the match ticket. About €300. Would be worse if it was a week or so out in Spain/Cyprus/wherever.

I'm doing 2 nights in Barcelona, 3 of us but very cheap, and not for 5 weeks yet

You'll probably be okay then. If it's going to blow, it'll probably have done so long before then.

Kinky ;-)

 

[jimharri]

I'm doing 2 nights in Barcelona, 3 of us but very cheap, and not for 5 weeks yet

You'll probably be okay then. If it's going to blow, it'll probably have done so long before then.

Kinky ;-)

You wanna head for the sexlife/film title thread if you want ''kinky''!

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

For those of you with holidays, you are covered by the EU package travel regulations as long as you bought flight and hotel together. In simple terms its then for the tour operator to look after you.

If you bought it all online separately, you're stuffed if it goes wrong. And as noted, it's been excluded from travel insurance now.

Aah, thankyou

 

[Challenger1978]

Scientists are warning that one of Icelands most active volcanoes could erupt at any time, the Hekla volcano is filling up with magma and earthquakes have been monitored around the base of the volcano leading to fears it's about to blow
Airlines have already been warned that if it does there will be as much disruption to European airspace as in 2010 when the Eyjafjallajoku volcano on Iceland erupted
Hope not i'm flying to Crete in a couple of weeks!

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From what I've read it's Bárðarbunga that could possibly Erupt and its a big big fucking volcano.

This is not an Eyjafjallajökull. Eyjafjallajökull was tiny. Bárðarbunga is a monster. And this is not a normal earthquake swarm. The quantity, scale, and depth of them have never been observed there before by modern equipment on this volcano, and are similar to what was observed in nearby Grímsvötn shortly before it went off. That said:

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Up­da­ted at. 12:49: The Meteorological Office has sent a notice that says that the GPS positi­on mea­surements give strong evi­dence of magma mo­vement Bárðarbunga.

The winter of 1783-1784. The Revolutionary War had just ended, and Benjamin Franklin was puzzling over the nation's bizarre weather. Congress had been delayed getting to Annapolis to vote for the Treaty of Paris because the Chesapeake Bay just wouldn't melt. The Mississippi River froze down to New Orleans, and ice was reported floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Reports from Europe were of a bizarrely hot summer with thick fog that was choking people to death in Scotland, massive hailstones, lightning, and crop failures. The sun was blood-red at noon. Mass starvation that would ultimately kill 1/6ths of Egypt's population took hold due to a historic drought of the Nile. As many as six million people would die from the bizarre weather.

Franklin was one of the few scientists of the era to (almost) correctly speculate as to its cause:

"The cause of this universal fog is not yet ascertained [...] or whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing, to issue during the summer from Hekla in Iceland, and that other volcano which arose out of the sea near that island, which smoke might be spread by various winds, over the northern part of the world, is yet uncertain."

He, however, had mixed up his Icelandic volcanoes, for it was not Hekla that erupted that year, causing the planet-altering weather, but Laki (Eldgjá). A rift 23 kilometers long opened up in places up to 100 meters wide with lava fountains at times reaching over a kilometers into the air - and it continued erupting for 8 months.

 

[scotty123]

Scientists are warning that one of Icelands most active volcanoes could erupt at any time, the Hekla volcano is filling up with magma and earthquakes have been monitored around the base of the volcano leading to fears it's about to blow
Airlines have already been warned that if it does there will be as much disruption to European airspace as in 2010 when the Eyjafjallajoku volcano on Iceland erupted
Hope not i'm flying to Crete in a couple of weeks!

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From what I've read it's Bárðarbunga that could possibly Erupt and its a big big fucking volcano.

This is not an Eyjafjallajökull. Eyjafjallajökull was tiny. Bárðarbunga is a monster. And this is not a normal earthquake swarm. The quantity, scale, and depth of them have never been observed there before by modern equipment on this volcano, and are similar to what was observed in nearby Grímsvötn shortly before it went off. That said:

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Up­da­ted at. 12:49: The Meteorological Office has sent a notice that says that the GPS positi­on mea­surements give strong evi­dence of magma mo­vement Bárðarbunga.

The winter of 1783-1784. The Revolutionary War had just ended, and Benjamin Franklin was puzzling over the nation's bizarre weather. Congress had been delayed getting to Annapolis to vote for the Treaty of Paris because the Chesapeake Bay just wouldn't melt. The Mississippi River froze down to New Orleans, and ice was reported floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Reports from Europe were of a bizarrely hot summer with thick fog that was choking people to death in Scotland, massive hailstones, lightning, and crop failures. The sun was blood-red at noon. Mass starvation that would ultimately kill 1/6ths of Egypt's population took hold due to a historic drought of the Nile. As many as six million people would die from the bizarre weather.

Franklin was one of the few scientists of the era to (almost) correctly speculate as to its cause:

"The cause of this universal fog is not yet ascertained [...] or whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing, to issue during the summer from Hekla in Iceland, and that other volcano which arose out of the sea near that island, which smoke might be spread by various winds, over the northern part of the world, is yet uncertain."

He, however, had mixed up his Icelandic volcanoes, for it was not Hekla that erupted that year, causing the planet-altering weather, but Laki (Eldgjá). A rift 23 kilometers long opened up in places up to 100 meters wide with lava fountains at times reaching over a kilometers into the air - and it continued erupting for 8 months.

The power of nature is truly awesome

 

[Challenger1978]

Scientists are warning that one of Icelands most active volcanoes could erupt at any time, the Hekla volcano is filling up with magma and earthquakes have been monitored around the base of the volcano leading to fears it's about to blow
Airlines have already been warned that if it does there will be as much disruption to European airspace as in 2010 when the Eyjafjallajoku volcano on Iceland erupted
Hope not i'm flying to Crete in a couple of weeks!

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From what I've read it's Bárðarbunga that could possibly Erupt and its a big big fucking volcano.

This is not an Eyjafjallajökull. Eyjafjallajökull was tiny. Bárðarbunga is a monster. And this is not a normal earthquake swarm. The quantity, scale, and depth of them have never been observed there before by modern equipment on this volcano, and are similar to what was observed in nearby Grímsvötn shortly before it went off. That said:

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Up­da­ted at. 12:49: The Meteorological Office has sent a notice that says that the GPS positi­on mea­surements give strong evi­dence of magma mo­vement Bárðarbunga.

The winter of 1783-1784. The Revolutionary War had just ended, and Benjamin Franklin was puzzling over the nation's bizarre weather. Congress had been delayed getting to Annapolis to vote for the Treaty of Paris because the Chesapeake Bay just wouldn't melt. The Mississippi River froze down to New Orleans, and ice was reported floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Reports from Europe were of a bizarrely hot summer with thick fog that was choking people to death in Scotland, massive hailstones, lightning, and crop failures. The sun was blood-red at noon. Mass starvation that would ultimately kill 1/6ths of Egypt's population took hold due to a historic drought of the Nile. As many as six million people would die from the bizarre weather.

Franklin was one of the few scientists of the era to (almost) correctly speculate as to its cause:

"The cause of this universal fog is not yet ascertained [...] or whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing, to issue during the summer from Hekla in Iceland, and that other volcano which arose out of the sea near that island, which smoke might be spread by various winds, over the northern part of the world, is yet uncertain."

He, however, had mixed up his Icelandic volcanoes, for it was not Hekla that erupted that year, causing the planet-altering weather, but Laki (Eldgjá). A rift 23 kilometers long opened up in places up to 100 meters wide with lava fountains at times reaching over a kilometers into the air - and it continued erupting for 8 months.

The power of nature is truly awesome

It most certainly is.

 

[moggymoz]

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From what I've read it's Bárðarbunga that could possibly Erupt and its a big big fucking volcano.



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The power of nature is truly awesome

It most certainly is.

 

[jimharri]

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