Posted on 01/17/2025 2:58:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
Baroarbunga, one of the largest volcanoes in the whole of Iceland, has seen 130 earthquakes shatter its surrounding surfaces in just five hours, leading many to feel a full scale eruption will force flights to be severely disrupted.
Iceland has been the unfortunate home of many severe volcanic eruptions, with the most famous in recent times coming in 2010, when Eyjafjallajokull erupted, causing some 20 countries to close their airspace completely to travellers, impacting 10 million passengers looking to fly through, and out of Europe, as 100,000 flights were called off, and 80 million dollars was lost due to airport inactivity.
Aviation code yellow as fears spark that eruption imminent from earthquakes Now experts fear a new travel threat may be on the horizon, albeit on a much smaller scale, as the aviation colour code (a signal for pilots warning them of volcanic ash, or other debris in the sky) has been set to yellow in Baroarbunga.
The volcano is situated under the single largest ice cap in Iceland, Vatnajokull, which last erupted ten years ago.
Any earthquake at a magnitude of six or greater can spur an eruption, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and a multitude of quakes at magnitude 5 have shaken the nearby area in central Iceland, worrying citizens and travellers alike that travel chaos may be on the horizon if an eruption takes place here.
“The unrest at Baroarbunga is an addition to long term inflation of the system over the last few years and could herald developments toward a new eruption”, Valentin Troll, Professor of Petrology and Geochemistry at Uppsala University in Sweden, told the Daily Mail.
Why do volcanoes erupt? Volcanoes may indeed erupt if nearby tectonic plates shaken by earthquakes place enough magma in its volcanic system and apply significant pressure within its storage regions. “If these conditions exist, it is possible that large plates might cause dissolved gases to come out of the magma (like a shaken fizzy drink bottle), increasing the pressure and possibly leading to an eruption”, USGS states.
In addition to Eyjafjallajokull in 2010, Iceland has been the site of various other devastating volcanoes. In 2011, a volcano under the Vatnajokull glacier, the same glacier as Baroarbunga, erupted, which caused 900 flights to be cancelled throughout the whole of Europe in a short period.
A decade ago, the largest volcano eruption in Iceland in over 200 years, Baroarbunga, took place, but it only impacted local travel.
So, while the threat looms of travel fear, citizens can be confident that this particular possible eruption will not pose too much of a danger to airports and flights throughout Europe.
The travelers should take the train.
I see what you did there. ;)
But! But! But!
Muh global warming!
vOLcANoS rEleASe CO2 iNTo tHe aTMOsPHeRe!!
And guess what....Volcanoes cause global cooling....
Baroarbunga is an interesting name for a volcano.
It sounds more like a folk dance or a fancy dessert.
The other volcano starting with an E, is straight up unpronounceable. Try saying that name,three times, really fast!
It belonged to Denmark before WWII, the US occupied it to prevent the Nazis from getting it, and then in 1944, they voted for independence from Denmark.
For those that do not know, Iceland is actually an exposed section of oceanic crust on the Atlantic Ridge. The volcanism is from the sea floor being torn apart along the ridge.
I thought I read that volcanoes do more to put carbon in the atmosphere than all human activity, ever.
Hey, hey, hey!! We’re trying to keep that bit of trivia quiet or the whole Green Scam falls apart.
I just read the opposite. I left that link so I don’t err in my statements.
Baroarbunga...Eyjafjallajokull ....Vatnajokull
Were those names given so people couldn’t talk about them?
Wait a minute...”Valentin Troll”...troll, maybe that explains it.
Mr. Morpurgo needs to change his first name to Baroarbunga.
Mr. Baroarbunga Morpurgo has a certain virile masculinity about it.
No silly that goes from Australia to India. Or somewhere.
This earthquake swarm was almost two days ago. Not a peep since.
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The first one is actually more pronouncable than the other two.
The eruption of Laki on Iceland in 1783-84 caused a severe cooling which led to widespread crop failures and massive famine in Europe, India even widespread food shortages in the U.S.
today would prob be even worse due to huge number of people living in hunger , about 10% of the world.
The elves are angry.
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