Icelandic Volcano Appears on Verge of a Far More Powerful Eruption than Last Year

Reaganite Republican ^ | February 10, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Bárdarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, 

which shut-down most of Europe's airspace in May 2010

Local experts have observed all the signs that another -much larger- Icelandic volcano is ready to blow, an event that could dwarf last year's series of eruptions that shut down air travel throughout Europe and changed weather patterns for months...

Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after evaluating an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano. 

Pall Einarsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, says the area around Bárdarbunga is showing signs of increased activity, which provides "good reason to worry". 

He told the country's national TV station that a low number of seismometer measuring devices in the area is making it more difficult to determine the scale and likely outcome of the current shifts. But he said there was "every reason to worry" as the sustained earthquake tremors to the north east of the remote volcano range are the strongest recorded in recent times and there was "no doubt" the lava was rising. 

The geologist complained that the lack of coverage from measuring devices means he cannot accurately detect the depth and exact location of the increased number of localised earth movements.

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The last recorded eruption of Bárdarbunga was in 1910, although volcanologists believe its last major eruption occurred in 1477 when it produced a large ash and pumice fallout. It also produced the largest known lava flow during the past 10,000 years on earth.

It is the second largest volcano on Iceland and is directly above the mantle plume of molten rock.

By comparison, Bárdarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which shutdown most of Europe's airspace last year after its ash cloud drifted across the continent's skies...

The Telegraph (UK)

Iceland Volcano Update:

Latest update re. volcanic and seismic activity available
from the Icelandic Met Office -here-

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[PGR88]

Bárdarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano

At least we will be able to pronounce the source of our doom this time.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Bárdarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano

At least we will be able to pronounce the source of our doom this time.

I gave up last year and just pronounced "Eyjafjallajökull" as "Cat-on-keyboard".

[UCANSEE2]

I bet the spelling will still be a challenge.

[dfwgator]

Baddaboombaddabing!

[The Great RJ]

Let’s hope the eruptions brings some global warming to the frozen US.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Must be because of Global Warming. Wonder how much this might contribute to Carbon Emissions being released into the atmosphere.

[dead]

"How can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland. You think it's too cold to have a volcano there!"

- CNN's Rick Sanchez

[painter]

Caldera? Like Yellowstone?

[Panzerlied]

“At least we will be able to pronounce the source of our doom this time.”

Death or Bardarbunga!

[Reaganite Republican]

How bout Cowabunga dude lol

[Foolsgold]

Now algore will be able to say "see I told you the glaciers in Iceland were melting

[Smokin' Joe]

The irony in that is that the Icelandic and Hawaiian volcanoes have similar types of magma, and are both bassaltic. While Hawaii is on a 'hotspot', the Icelandic volcanoes are on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rift system extending roughly from north to south down the middle of the Atlantic where new oceanic plate is generated.

Of course, Sanchez probably hasn't figured out Mount Fujiyama or the volcanoes in Alaska yet, either, and would probably suffer some sort of cranial eruption if he heard there were submarine eruptions in the Arctic Ocean as well...

[Darren McCarty]

That one would be bad. The one that would really be bad news would be another Laki.

[who knows what evil?]

Drama queens...nothing we can do about it; so if and when something happens; I’ll pay attention to it...

[Darren McCarty]

Yellowstone and Lake Toba are in a league of their own when it comes to Calderas. Two biggest eruptions in the last millions of years.

[greatplains]

lol! He’d get to the cranial eruption about halfway through your first paragraph!

[Young Werther]

GLOBAL WARMING!

[painter]

I know.I was wondering if this might be one too,maybe not as big.