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
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
Thanks. If half of Hollywood is wiped out, that is a good thing.
“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.
Thanks for the post.
I DID actually know, but welcome affirmation...
Yowser!
I wanted to get stationed there but Minot was as close as I got.
Something’s cooking.
No, that'll hurt me; Big Time.
I went there in July 2017. I loved it there, but it was crazy expensive.
that’s got eruption written all over it...
In before Laz causes an international incident with a lascivious offer to shelter Icelandic maidens in his home.
Bookmark. Thank you for the links.first I have heard this.
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.
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.
Mom, get the helmet. Put the helmet on.....
Iceland looks like the MOON!! The topography is UNBELIEVABLE....!!!FANTASTIC!
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!
Hawaii had so many homeless camps in that PARADISE, I was embarrassed!!
NOOOO!! My Bitcoin mining rigs are there!
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