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/
“Volcanic eruptions in the region are known as effusive eruptions, where lava flows steadily out of the ground,
This is nothing compared to the Flood Basalts of the
Pacific Northwest.
Gaia angry.
A ban on all fossil fuels is the only way to appease Gaia.
I’m glad that it isn’t like that Hawaiian volcano eruption a couple of years back. More farmland.
There’s other factors to consider. Primarily the total amount of ash and SO2 emitted over time. IIRC, some of these Icelandic volcanoes erupt for a very long time. I’ve been watching the live feed and the fissures seem to be growing?
.....or maybe a carbon tax
They appeared to be getting larger to me too.
I was just amazed at the amount of basaltic lava
released in the Pacific Northwest, it covered
an area of 63,000 square miles!!!
Pretty lava fountains from fissure eruption.
Sorry doomers, it didn’t explode and the world isn’t going to end, lol
Sorry, I missed what you said. And you’re right. No comparison. But what if this is just the beginning of a major increase in worldwide activity? Many other volcanoes are waking up around the world now.
“We’re all gonna die...; You’re gonna die;
I’m gonna die; ... we’re all gonna die; ...
... just not today...”
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... Alex Hopper ... “Battleship” ... 2012.
#9
I remember the one in Klofalækjarkjaftur, which was said to be even larger than the one in Geldingadalur.
How much CO2 is that super spreader spewing into the atmosphere?
Not a bad action movie, if you put your brain in neutral. They stole those lines from some dinosaur 65 million years ago. :)
Nah. Sacrifice Greta Thunberg to the volcano.
The volcano would spit her back out.
Eruption ping.
Never, ever, ever ... not matter what you do ...
analyze ANY Hollywood movie too closely.
That's not true. There is nothing that Gaia likes better than crispy virgins, and here we have an active volcano waiting to cook them.
For every surface volcano, there are many more below the ocean. Might they warm the oceans, causing the oceans to give up CO2 and increase atmospheric moisture? Increased atmospheric moisture in conjunction with increased SO2 and lower output from the sun may cause the earth to enter another ice age in our day.
Maybe rising CO2 levels are simply indicators of earth climate cycle changes we have no control over.
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