Activity at Iceland Volcano Katla

[oilydan]

I have been watching this one for a while and, usually, there are 1-2 'quakes per day at up to 2.5 on the Richter scale.

After a week away from my computer I return to find this.... (check the graph at the bottom)

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earth...

I am a geoscientist (not in the realm of volcanology) but it seems to me that this is a massive earthquake swarm indicative of an imminent erruption.....

If it doesn't side-vent like last time in 2011 it might be an interesting event.

Or it could just end with a little puff of smoke.

[oilydan]

Puggit said:

I think the OP underplays the potential of Katla a bit...

I didn't want to come across all "tabloid headline sensationalistic", but yes....If Katla goes off with a bang, it will be a major planet-changing event.

I wonder what happens if it is really bad? Meldown of markets, ice-age, lawlessness kind of bad.

At least I'll be mortgage free

[oilydan]

Simpo Two said:

oilydan said:

I wonder what happens if it is really bad? Meldown of markets, ice-age, lawlessness kind of bad.

It will be like a giant 'Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls' - only without Bear Grylls to rescue us when the yucca root we spent an hour cooking turns out to be a piece of wood.

Would be interesting to see how the different part of society would cope; from the benefit scroungers who would no longer get paid for doing nothing, to the wealthy with nothing as it dissappeared with the stock market collapse.

I would enjoy the cooler climate in the Middle East, the climbing oil prices, and the surge of shale gas exploration drilling in the UK

I think a mini ice-age for a few years would be great, one of those defining points of human history, and we'd be able say 'I was there'.

Unless we're all dead.