Posted on 08/03/2022 2:27:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Fortunately, at present, no lives appeared to be endangered by the lava flow, according to Iceland’s Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management. The country’s main transportation hub, Keflavík Airport, was briefly alerted, as is standard procedure during eruptions. However, the facility didn’t cancel any flights and operations are continuing to run on schedule.
Hjorleifsson predicts that the eruption will have little effect on air traffic, as it was a fissure eruption, in which lava flows instead of explodes. This is generally less dangerous than the bombastic central variety, in which ejection of debris and lava flows from a central point, such as the ash-riddled 2020 eruption of the glaciated Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Following the latter catastrophe, more than 100,000 flights were grounded, while hundreds of Icelanders were forced to evacuate their homes, Reuters reported.
The recent Geldingadalir eruption occurred in the same region where a six-month eruption started in February 2021, near Grindavík, a fishing town of about 3,600 people, Bloomberg reported. The two eruptions were juxtaposed in a recent tweet by geographer Benjamin Hennig.
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global volcanism!
STOP PLATE TECTONICS!
Isn’t that what volcanos do?
Iceland - sitting as it does at (right on) the north end of the Atlantic ridge, right where the North American plate and the Eurasian plate meet, has about 130 active volcanoes (and abundent geothermal driven electricty).
OH NO! What about global warming and green house gases? We are DOOMED! Quick make a law and pass a tax to stop it!!
Icland is about the size of Kentucky with less than half a million prople, 70% of wich live in Reykjavik.
Al Gore says it’s due to climate change must be right he invented the internet huh.
You can actually stand in the gap between the two plates. Neat stuff.
And the rest live in neolithic conditions.
“You can actually stand in the gap between the two plates. Neat stuff.”
Yes. Been there, done that. We had a great visit in Iceland a few years ago; long before “Covid”.
Women and minorities hardest hit
Half the icelandic population lives in Rekjavik.
I got hooked on watching the live videos last year.
Why not? Russia at war. China at war. Volcanoes spewing.
“Climbit Change.”
Would you guys settle for Gondwanaland?
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