Another Icelandic volcano eruption on the cards
Discussion
Supernova190188 said:
Would that not be a cube 20m x 20m x 20m , which would be 8000 cubic metres? 20 million would be a far larger cube.
Not sure, did sound small. I just ran it through a couple of conversion calculators. All say the same unless I'm doing it wrong.Oakey said:
Is it really not impressive or is it 'not impressive' in the same way that if you took all the water on Earth it fits into a sphere about the sizes of the UK
I just meant it didn't sound as impressive as 20 million cubic metres. As above, perhaps I've got the conversion wrong.Interesting graphic though, thought it would be more. I've no idea what 326 million trillion gallons looks like though
bang on.B17NNS said:
Supernova190188 said:
Would that not be a cube 20m x 20m x 20m , which would be 8000 cubic metres? 20 million would be a far larger cube.
Not sure, did sound small. I just ran it through a couple of conversion calculators. All say the same unless I'm doing it wrong.Oakey said:
Is it really not impressive or is it 'not impressive' in the same way that if you took all the water on Earth it fits into a sphere about the sizes of the UK
I just meant it didn't sound as impressive as 20 million cubic metres. As above, perhaps I've got the conversion wrong.Interesting graphic though, thought it would be more. I've no idea what 326 million trillion gallons looks like though
Wing Commander said:
Well, I am finding this link (posted above) highly addictive...
http://baering.github.io/
There appears to be some smoke now where there wasn't any earlier, and there continues to be lots of tiny little tremors at various depths. This is like some really slow reality TV show that I cannot turn off.
Someones parked a van up there!http://baering.github.io/
There appears to be some smoke now where there wasn't any earlier, and there continues to be lots of tiny little tremors at various depths. This is like some really slow reality TV show that I cannot turn off.
Wing Commander said:
There appears to be some smoke now where there wasn't any earlier, and there continues to be lots of tiny little tremors at various depths. This is like some really slow reality TV show that I cannot turn off.
There was a twitter feed with a similar claim, turns out they were dust devils on the ground away from the volcano. That what you saw?Apparently some small holes have appeared in the ice SE of the Bardarbunga crater - and meanwhile the main magma continues to migrate towards another volcano, Askja - last time Askja erupted was 1875 and apparently it was a big one... This is seen as unlikely, but it's just carrying on with this path.
jmorgan said:
Wing Commander said:
There appears to be some smoke now where there wasn't any earlier, and there continues to be lots of tiny little tremors at various depths. This is like some really slow reality TV show that I cannot turn off.
There was a twitter feed with a similar claim, turns out they were dust devils on the ground away from the volcano. That what you saw?Still waiting! Been a few 2+ magnitude quakes in the last hour, but that seems to have been a continuous pattern over the last 24hrs
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/artic...
Now saying
Now saying
Iceland Met Office said:
Scientists from IES and IMO on a flight to Vatnajökull tonight discovered a row of 10-15 m deep cauldrons south of the Bárðarbunga caldera. They form a 6-4 km long line. The cauldrons have been formed as a result of melting, possibly a sub-glacial eruption, uncertain when. Heightened tremor level/volcanic tremor has not been observed on IMO's seismometers at the moment. The new data is being examined.
So, a split?
It is over a plate so probably no? Not a geowotsit so no idea.
There is a paper that that site above links to and gives the possible scenarios.
PDF link, not too large
Edit. On a bad day, from that PDF linked to. But it might be a quiet one..... love the daily wail to see this.
There is a paper that that site above links to and gives the possible scenarios.
PDF link, not too large
Edit. On a bad day, from that PDF linked to. But it might be a quiet one..... love the daily wail to see this.
paper in above link said:
Explosive eruption: The large explosive basaltic eruption in 1477 CE took place on a ~65 km long volcanic fissure on the southwestern part of the Veiðivötn fissure swarm where ground water level is high, and deposited about 10 km3 of tephra on land affecting 50% of the country (Figures 4 and 5b). Heavy proximal tephra fall clogged water ways and volcanic craters dammed river Tungnaá resulting in formation of unstable lakes behind tephra dams
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