Another Icelandic volcano eruption on the cards

[hidetheelephants]

Fire and brimstone!

[DJRC]

I bet they don't hold a Naughty Volcano Stop Changing the Atmosphere march near there! Pussies!

[Gandahar]

Imagine if this little fissure eruption had happened in the UK ! The Icelanders just shrug it off. Mind you they do have a bit more space per person than here.

I see the number of seismic events is decreasing now, also they have stopped to the north near Askja, just now at the fissure and Bárðarbunga.

[jmorgan]

Might get a bit wiffy soon in the UK?
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=jetstrea...

[MrCarPark]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

"That's no sunset. And that thin red line just above it -- that's not a sun pillar. The red glow on the horizon originates from a volcanic eruption, and the red line is the eruption's reflection from fluttering atmospheric ice crystals. This unusual volcanic light pillar was captured over Iceland earlier this month. The featured scene looks north from Jökulsárlón toward the erupting volcano Bárðarbunga in the Holuhraun lava field. Even the foreground sky is picturesque, with textured grey clouds in the lower atmosphere, shimmering green aurora in the upper atmosphere, and bright stars far in the distance. Although the last eruption from Holuhraun was in 1797, the present volcanic activity continues."

[jmorgan]

Cracking shot.

[fathomfive]

Stunning photograph.

[CrutyRammers]

Puggit said:

Amazing video of the lava fields and rivers of molten lava, but the truly jaw dropping part is the magma erupting out of the craters from around 4.00

http://youtu.be/zGMHD6-aV34

Wowzers. Cheers for posting that.

[funkyrobot]

MrCarPark said:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

"That's no sunset. And that thin red line just above it -- that's not a sun pillar. The red glow on the horizon originates from a volcanic eruption, and the red line is the eruption's reflection from fluttering atmospheric ice crystals. This unusual volcanic light pillar was captured over Iceland earlier this month. The featured scene looks north from Jökulsárlón toward the erupting volcano Bárðarbunga in the Holuhraun lava field. Even the foreground sky is picturesque, with textured grey clouds in the lower atmosphere, shimmering green aurora in the upper atmosphere, and bright stars far in the distance. Although the last eruption from Holuhraun was in 1797, the present volcanic activity continues."

Great pic.

Eye of Sauron?

[Puggit]

CrutyRammers said:

Puggit said:

Amazing video of the lava fields and rivers of molten lava, but the truly jaw dropping part is the magma erupting out of the craters from around 4.00

http://youtu.be/zGMHD6-aV34

Wowzers. Cheers for posting that.

250-300 cubic metres of molten rock every second

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/22/1331666/-...

[jmorgan]

Farmer to scientist. "You lot have it easy in your white coats and playing with clip boards, we farmers have to shovel Sh@t all day"

Scientist, "shovel sh@t? pffft"

http://www.bardarbungavolcano.com/Home/News/127

[Puggit]

Love the boiling water with lava trick

[jmorgan]

First glimpse you think it will never all fit in that pan.

[MrCarPark]

Why do they need to take fresh lava samples? What is it they need to know that's so urgent and can't wait until it's cooled down naturally?

[jmorgan]

Better chance of getting at the gasses in the lava to see what it is about?

[MrCarPark]

Ah ok. Extract the gases from the water rather than solid rock.

[jmorgan]

No idea then, never said I was a vulcanologist. Hate Star Trek.

[Ricepilot]

Some stills after Iurie filmed the crater earlier this week.







And another Facebook video (not such great quality this time, but does give a bit of 'scale' to the eruption.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1020466624523...

[jmorgan]

MrCarPark said:

Ah ok. Extract the gases from the water rather than solid rock.

Here you go

http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/collecting-sample

[Puggit]

Nothing exciting, apart from fresh snow: