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Icelandic Volcano About to Cut Loose?
Ice Age Now ^ | 25 February 2021 | Robert Felix

Posted on 02/25/2021 2:21:34 PM PST by amorphous

“Unprecedented,” say experts. Look at the number of earthquakes in the last 48 hours!

Southwestern Iceland was rocked by a series of earthquakes Wednesday. According to geological experts, the epicenter of the main quake was located near Mt. Keilir, roughly 30 km (19 miles) south of the capital Reykjavik.

Experts say shocks from the quake, which registered 5.7 in magnitude, sparked increased volcanic activity, triggering a number of aftershocks registering over 4.0 for hours after the initial quake hit.

“I’ve never experienced or felt so many strong earthquakes in such a short period of time. It’s unusual,” Icelandic Meteorological Office’s (IMO) earthquake hazards coordinator Kristin Jonsdottir told Icelandic public broadcaster RUV.

Experts are used to intense geothermal activity in Iceland but say the amount of rumbling at the moment is unprecedented

Though the region has yet to experience eruptions as a result of the increased activity, the IMO nevertheless raised aviation warnings from green to yellow over the Krysuvik volcano system.

The last eruption to occur in the area was in the 12th century but more recently, the eruption of Iceland’s more southerly Eyjafjallajokull volcano over six days in 2010 caused massive disruption to international air travel, affecting as many as 10 million travelers.

The Reykjanes peninsula, located on a tectonic fault, has been rocked by numerous earthquakes for more than a year.

https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/

https://www.dw.com/en/iceland-heavy-earthquakes-trigger-volcanic-activity/a-56681610

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1400025/quake-rocks-reykjavik-raises-icelands-volcano-activity

Thanks to Bill Sellers for these links


TOPICS: Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: earthquakes; fagradalsfjall; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; iceland; katla; reykjavik; tectonic; tectonicplates; volcano; volcanoes
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To: Paladin2


61 posted on 02/25/2021 4:11:00 PM PST by EEGator
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To: immadashell
In his books The Earth's Shifting Crust (1958) (which includes a foreword by Albert Einstein) and Path of the Pole (1970), Hapgood speculated that accumulated polar ice mass destabilizes the Earth's rotation, causing crustal displacement but not disturbing the Earth's axial orientation. Hapgood argued that shifts (of no more than 40 degrees ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothesis

62 posted on 02/25/2021 4:11:04 PM PST by amorphous
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To: EvilCapitalist
Not in Iceland...


63 posted on 02/25/2021 4:14:10 PM PST by EEGator
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To: amorphous

Thanks. If half of Hollywood is wiped out, that is a good thing.


64 posted on 02/25/2021 4:14:42 PM PST by vis a vis
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To: nascarnation

“So you’re sayin’ all the billions spent on pollution control in the developed world were p*ssing in the wind? LOL”

Nope, but all the effort to reduce AGW is worthless if a mega-eruption happens.


65 posted on 02/25/2021 4:15:46 PM PST by Fai Mao
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To: EEGator

Thanks for the post.

I DID actually know, but welcome affirmation...


66 posted on 02/25/2021 4:16:20 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: EEGator

Yowser!

I wanted to get stationed there but Minot was as close as I got.


67 posted on 02/25/2021 4:17:37 PM PST by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun". "WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT")
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To: amorphous

Something’s cooking.


68 posted on 02/25/2021 4:17:55 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Some days i just want the yellowstone caldera to go."

No, that'll hurt me; Big Time.

69 posted on 02/25/2021 4:18:46 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: mcshot

I went there in July 2017. I loved it there, but it was crazy expensive.


70 posted on 02/25/2021 4:20:17 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

that’s got eruption written all over it...


71 posted on 02/25/2021 4:20:41 PM PST by heavy metal (covid covid covid is the new russia russia russia...)
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To: amorphous; Lazamataz

In before Laz causes an international incident with a lascivious offer to shelter Icelandic maidens in his home.


72 posted on 02/25/2021 4:23:52 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: amorphous

Bookmark. Thank you for the links.first I have heard this.


73 posted on 02/25/2021 4:24:46 PM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: amorphous

We’ll be without all those lovely fossil fuels that keep us so warm in winter, thanks to that idiot in the White House and his kooky climate-change clique.


74 posted on 02/25/2021 4:28:59 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: amorphous

The good news is another eruption might ground John Kerry’s private jet. The bad news is that a major eruption will put more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than would be saved by thousands of windmills and untold acres of solar cells.


75 posted on 02/25/2021 4:35:28 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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To: amorphous

Mom, get the helmet. Put the helmet on.....


76 posted on 02/25/2021 4:58:38 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: amorphous

Iceland looks like the MOON!! The topography is UNBELIEVABLE....!!!FANTASTIC!


77 posted on 02/25/2021 5:01:54 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: EEGator
Hey, but their stop slights are in the shape of HEARTS!! CUTE!

Iceland Air allows you to stop over in Iceland up to 7 days, then fly off to your other destination and it's only ONE FARE! GREAT DEAL!

78 posted on 02/25/2021 5:04:39 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kozak

Hawaii had so many homeless camps in that PARADISE, I was embarrassed!!


79 posted on 02/25/2021 5:07:12 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: amorphous

NOOOO!! My Bitcoin mining rigs are there!
/s


80 posted on 02/25/2021 5:07:34 PM PST by pingman ("I ain't in no ways tarred.." of WINNING!)
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