Posted on 07/09/2010 6:44:30 PM PDT by Errant
9 Jul 10 - Fourteen earthquakes have occurred below Iceland's Mýrdalsjökull glacier during the past 48 hours - one within the last 4 hours. Katla Volcano lies beneath the Mýrdalsjökull glacier.
Katla Volcano usually erupts every century, says Iceland's President Olafur Grimsson. and the last eruption was in 1918. "The time for Katla to erupt is coming close."
"I don't say if, but I say when Katla will erupt," Grimsson says. "We have been waiting for that eruption for several years."
"It can create, for a long period, extraordinary damage to modern advanced society."
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Katla Can’t Wait!
Welcome Back Katla!
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Seems like a lot of activity in Iceland recently.
Seems to be more things happening all over the world.
Next...Yellowstone???
Just inventoried and donated older stock; have to replenish and add more.
What I am waiting for is a totally new volcano somewhere like Parícutin in Mexico where, in the 1940's, one day a guy was plowing his corn field and literally the next day a crack in the earth opened up and a volcano was born. That sort of a thing could put you off your feed for a while.
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The floor of Yellowstone Lake had been lifting in the past. What is happening now, I'm not sure.
Though not in a subduction zone, should something start this thing up, it could make an eruption in Iceland seem like nothing more than a burp.
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14 earthquakes in the past 48 hours at Katla.
Worth more than it's weight in gold someday. Pork fat rules!
Is that bacon pretty good? I’ve thought about getting a case.
Yellowstone has “end of civilization as we know it” capability certainly.
It’s the Year of the Kat-la.
I'll say.
Since 17-May-2010 until this post 9-July-2010, there have been approximately 96 earthquakes at the Katla volcano site within the region of the Myrdalsjokull glacier. Of the 96 earthquakes, 27 have been within the Katla caldera. The image shows the earthquake locations with respect to the past volcanic eruption sites of 1755, 1823, and 1918. There was also a suspected region of eruption during 1955 which never broke through the ice glacier. It is located on the eastern edge of the caldera.
As you can see, only a few of the earthquakes occur directly underneath a previous eruption location, while the majority occur around the perimeter, particularly the east-northeast perimeter. Several others are scattered in other locations within the caldera.
It is interesting to note that of the approximate 96 Katla earthquakes since 17-May, the majority have occurred just off of the northwest rim of the caldera as you can see in the image above.
Katla has been fickle during the past number of weeks in that there have been days when hardly an earthquake has appeared, while there have been other days that have been fairly active. There was one stretch of several weeks that was very quiet, while during the past several days there has been quite a lot of activity, much more than average since I’ve been watching this.
Katla historically erupts following the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull (which first erupted April 14). Katla is about 10 times more powerful, and has the potential to cause worldwide disruption.
They should have named it Mt. Obama.
MyrdalsjökullThe volcano usually erupts once a century, so this is an uh-oh.
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Looks like another webbot hit, to me.
Time may soon tell.
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