Or WHAT?
Posted on 03/20/2021 5:46:59 PM PDT by amorphous
Finally! The eruption comes following more than 40,000 earthquakes in the past four weeks, a huge jump from the more normal 1,000-3,000 earthquakes per year since 2014.
The volcanic eruption began in southwestern Iceland near the capital Reykjavik on Friday, the country’s meteorological office said.
A red cloud lit up the night sky after the eruption began in Fagradalsfjall, a mountain about 40km (25 miles) south west of Reykjavik.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said all inbound and outbound flights from Keflavik airport in Reykjavik have been halted.
It is the area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 800 years (some say nearly 900 years). Maybe even longer. According to usnews.com, “the Fagradals Mountain volcano had been dormant for 6,000 years, and the Reykjanes Peninsula hadn’t seen an eruption of any volcano in 781 years.”
“I can see the glowing red sky from my window,” said Rannveig Gudmundsdottir, resident in the town of Grindavik, only 8 km (5 miles) from the eruption.
“Everyone here is getting into their cars to drive up there,” she said. (Even though police and coastguard officials have advised residents to stay away from the area.)
Dramatic images filmed by a coast guard helicopter showed streams of red lava bubbling and flowing out of a fissure in a valley in Geldingadalur. As the lava continued to today (Saturday), clouds of blue gas were also swirling from the site.
“Volcanic eruptions in the region are known as effusive eruptions, where lava flows steadily out of the ground, as opposed to explosive ones such as that of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 which spewed ash paralyzed air traffic in Europe for weeks.
Streams of red lava could be seen flowing out of a fissure in the ground in video footage filmed by a coast guard helicopter and posted by the Iceland Meteorological Office (IMO) on Twitter.
‘The eruption is considered small,’ the IMO, said in a statement Saturday, adding that the ‘eruption fissure’ is estimated to be be about 1,640 – 3,280 feet long, and that the lava is estimated to be less than half-a-square mile in size.
See more videos on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fagradalsfjall?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
See pictures of lava:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9382609/Iceland-volcano-erupts-time-900-years.html
See lots of photos:
Great drone footage:
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2021/03/20/storbrotnar_dronamyndir_af_gosinu/
Watching the LIVE DAY TIME stream, there are NO NEW fissure openings. NONE!
The big cone is a little more active today, and the valley has been just about covered with lava.
You people need to stop with your dammed sensationalism.
WTF? There are volcanoes in SE Asia and the Philippines erupting now that are far more serious than this thing. Then there is Etna..
Yeah, Deccan Traps much larger.
Must have been an amazing sight.
If you weren’t cooked or poisoned to death.
Or WHAT?
Your the one who made the comment that the fissures seemed to be growing.
Just like some of those on Youtube that put up, and continue to put up, vids of Yellowstone.
ITS ABOUT TO BLOW!
Like I said jackweed. YOU are the one who claimed the fissures were growing.
FP.
Here jackweed. If you really want to go on volcano watch and see some real interesting facts concerning threat levels within the USA.
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/long-valley-caldera/
Jackass!
Go down into the crater of Snaefells Jökull, which Scartaris's shadow caresses just before the calends of July, O daring traveler, and you'll make it to the center of the earth. I've done so. Arne Saknussemm
Snaefells Jökull is only 50 miles across the bay from Fagradalsfjall.
-PJ
Live Cam (raining): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_jnF4K0D0
While listening to reports of various volcanoes around the world I Always get a kick out of hearing the SO2 amounts always listed in TPD, tons per day, numbers on the low end of 800-2500, then using those numbers while having conversing with environmental nuts.
Watching some of the footage from the current round of events in Hawaii there had been enough SO2 that it is leaving a visible color streak, even with the normal levels of rain to desolve, Man can’t compete with the output of nature.
Local areas might be effected, but mother earth will handle this as always.
It’s something to watch, even though someone’s the only way to see something moving is through time lake images.
I like to check the webcam on occasion to see how much it’s grown. I think the thing about Icelandic volcanoes is how long they continue to erupt. Over time they produce quite a bit of SO2 and ash.
Nuts. It looks like the live stream has ended.
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