Posted on 09/06/2014 7:10:26 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Not only did the caldera collapse but there has unprecedented spread of the tectonic plates this past month as well.
Truly fascinating and indeed quite concerning.
Who gives a rip?
Drum roll please....lol
I’m on a tear!
A true cinder”fella you are...
Why, the people of Bárðarbunga and them.
*sigh* True.
I should probably quit before I make a total ash of myself.
Over there by Kenyabungaport, ain’t it?
From the article: “middle of last century” OK is that like 60 years ago? Tell me again in geologic time, how big an issue is this.
Next up from the climate change crowd, please enlighten me as to how climate change causes ice to melt when the melting is due to a volcano.
Times up, so, unless I plan on flying to Europe, which I don’t, wake me later.
*nully refraining from making any comment about ripping them a new Bárðarbunga hole*
While seismic activity around the volcano was intense in the years preceding the cataclysmic 1883 eruption, a series of lesser eruptions began on May 20, 1883. The volcano released huge plumes of steam and ash lasting until late August. On August 27 a series of four huge explosions almost entirely destroyed the island. The explosions were so violent that they were heard 3,110 km (1,930 mi) away in Perth, Western Australia and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 km (3,000 mi) away. The pressure wave from the final explosion was recorded on barographs around the world, which continued to register it up to 5 days after the explosion. The recordings show that the shock wave from the final explosion reverberated around the globe seven times. Ash was propelled to a height of 80 km (50 mi). The sound of the eruption was so loud it was reported that if anyone was within ten miles (16 km), they would have gone deaf.
The combined effects of pyroclastic flows, volcanic ashes, and tsunamis had disastrous results in the region and world-wide. The death toll recorded by the Dutch authorities was 36,417, although some sources put the estimate at more than 120,000. There are numerous documented reports of groups of human skeletons floating across the Indian Ocean on rafts of volcanic pumice and washing up on the east coast of Africa up to a year after the eruption. Average global temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the year following the eruption. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.
The eruption darkened the sky worldwide for years afterwards, and produced spectacular sunsets throughout the world for many months. British artist William Ashcroft made thousands of colour sketches of the red sunsets half way around the world from Krakatoa in the years after the eruption. The ash caused "such vivid red sunsets that fire engines were called out in New York, Poughkeepsie, and New Haven to quench the apparent conflagration." This eruption also produced a Bishop's Ring around the sun by day, and a volcanic purple light at twilight.
For several years following the eruption it was reported that the moon appeared to be blue and sometimes green. Blue moons resulted because some of the ash clouds were filled with particles about 1 µm wide—the right size to strongly scatter red light, while allowing other colors to pass. White moonbeams shining through the clouds emerged blue, and sometimes green. People also saw lavender suns and, for the first time, noctilucent clouds.
I just tried to ping core wrecked. When did he become a non-person?
When I saw “crustal movement” I thought this would be about Hillary
Maybe they should look into a crustal ball?
It’s early September ...
Down here, the leaves fall on the land and make earth.
Up there, the iceland falls as the earth leaves.
When yellowstone goes can’t wait to read your posts. :-)
If the ocean is bigger, that means it can hold more water...so much for the sea levels rising.
Now we have to heat up the globe or all the boats will run aground!
Doomage! Disaster! an' all that...
Well the last time the Yellowstone caldera exploded it wiped out half of North America.
Must be global warming.
And it’s Bush’s fault.
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