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Iceland’s Second Biggest Volcano on Brink of Eruption: Europe Travel Disruption Feared
Euroweekly News ^ | 17 Jan 2025 | Connor Morpurgo

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.


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KEYWORDS: denmark; iceland; lava; manifestdestiny; vikings; volcano
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To: nickcarraway

in ancient times [and still today amongst many], the chinese believed that major earthquakes portended monumental political change/upheaval ...


21 posted on 01/17/2025 3:36:12 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: vmpolesov

“vOLcANoS rEleASe CO2 iNTo tHe aTMOsPHeRe!!”

So do S. Calif. firestorms. Big Time!


22 posted on 01/17/2025 3:39:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: nickcarraway

in a week!! currently there are 42 active volcanoes around the world iirc. and the fools wanna outlaw cow farts...


23 posted on 01/17/2025 3:46:01 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: lee martell

COWABUNGA!


24 posted on 01/17/2025 3:47:05 PM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice. Psalm 130)
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To: nickcarraway

Hunga Tonga eruption in 2023 launched 100 billion tons of water into the stratosphere. Water vapor is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
That’s why all the “2024 was the warmest year ever”. Nothing to do with humans.


25 posted on 01/17/2025 3:49:04 PM PST by Kozak (Слава Україні Герояам Слава. RuZZia is a terrorist state.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why is this article even written if it doesn’t mention Climate Change? Did it slip through or something?


26 posted on 01/17/2025 3:59:18 PM PST by BobL
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To: nickcarraway

Its government poses a far more clear and present danger to its citizenry than the geology.

For folks who want to keep an eye on the geological situation...

https://en.vedur.is/


27 posted on 01/17/2025 4:01:41 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: nickcarraway

Looks like the freakout has been postponed...

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-01-17-ovissustigi-vegna-bardarbungu-aflyst-433311

If one’s translator is on the fritz, the takeaway...

“Low seismic activity has been detected in Bárðarbunga since Monday morning and the National Commissioner of Police has decided to cancel the uncertainty level.”


28 posted on 01/17/2025 4:04:17 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: vmpolesov; Sacajaweau

Sacajaweau is right - they cause global cooling, not global warming. If Yellowstone cooks off, ice age and glacier time. The WEF elites will love the population reduction.


29 posted on 01/17/2025 4:15:09 PM PST by PAR35
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To: nickcarraway

Nothing.
Only God.


30 posted on 01/17/2025 4:16:39 PM PST by AZJeep
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To: nickcarraway

Isn’t every volcano on the verge of eruption???

We haven’t really got a clue as to how these things work. We pretend we do... but we really don’t have a clue... They will erupt when they decide to erupt... Not when we decide.


31 posted on 01/17/2025 4:32:11 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

additionally, iirc it is on top of a mantle plume. Iirc this plume is believed to have formed at the then-location of the siberian traps - if correct, this plume was directed caused (antipodally) by the P-T impact.


32 posted on 01/17/2025 4:55:37 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Kozak

there actually has been some research on that incident in terms of climate impact. it didn’t read too politically tainted.


33 posted on 01/17/2025 4:58:13 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: sit-rep

“in a week!! currently there are 42 active volcanoes around the world iirc. and the fools wanna outlaw cow farts...”

Let me have some fun here!
I live on an island with a VERY active volcano.
My cow farts all the time.
Yet I’m quite warm and happy.

May be it that you choose the wrong places to live?


34 posted on 01/17/2025 5:23:24 PM PST by rellic (no such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: nickcarraway

This must be Trump’s fault since he wants to buy the place.


35 posted on 01/17/2025 6:18:02 PM PST by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: lee martell
The other volcano starting with an E, is straight up unpronounceable.

My daughter has an Icelandic friend who visited us for a couple weeks one summer. I got her to pronounce it for me - even wrote it out phonetically - but I still couldn't say it.

36 posted on 01/17/2025 9:39:17 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: nickcarraway

The great circle route to Europe will be disrupted. The airlines can still fly a southerly route, but at greater cost in fuel and travel time.


37 posted on 01/17/2025 9:58:08 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: lee martell

Well, it’s actually Bárðarbunga pronounced Ba oohr dar bunga.

I have no idea what it means as I can’t relate it to any proto Germanic words I can think of


38 posted on 01/17/2025 10:04:19 PM PST by Cronos
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To: Cronos
kinda like bunga bunga.

You certainly don't want to die from it.

39 posted on 01/17/2025 10:08:02 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce.)
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To: nickcarraway
I thought I read that volcanoes do more to put carbon in the atmosphere than all human activity, ever.

Back in 1980 after Mt. St. Helen erupted I read it discharged more CO2 than all of humanity up to that time.

40 posted on 01/18/2025 4:02:47 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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