Second, more powerful Icelandic volcano likely to explode soon

daily beast ^ | 4/21/10 | Martin Hickman

[Nachum]

Despite grounding 100,000 flights across Europe , battering a beleaguered airline industry, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers, disrupting schools and businesses, and giving homes under flight paths their first peace and quiet in decades, the current volcano eruption may be only a teaser of chaos to come.

A far bigger Icelandic volcano, Katla, is tipped to erupt in the coming months, potentially causing much more savage and sustained disruption to industry and society. Eyjafjallajokull erupted on 14 April, forcing European governments to impose a no-fly zone. Each time Eyjafjallajokull has erupted in the past 2,000 years – in 920, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823 – Katla has exploded within six months.

[Godzilla]

Godzilla awakens!

Get your monsters right.

[Mike Darancette]

What about Loki.

[Nachum]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V0T72Ghw

[Waco]

Peelosi will include a special in her climate bill.

[castlebrew]

scratching his backside is above his pay grade...

[gleeaikin]

It was the Laki Fissure, and occurred in 1783, not 1793. Killed 10,000 people and 90% of the livestock.

[gleeaikin]

Boston also saw its worst earthquake in 1755 about a month after Lisbons disaster. That was a busy year. We seem to be having a busy year worldwide too.

[Windflier]

Thanks for the clarification. I’m still learning the history on all this.

[Windflier]

Thanks for the history lesson. It’s very interesting.

When I was a kid, we were taught in our history classes that Leif Eriksson was the first European to lay eyes on North America, and that he founded a small settlement here.

I saw a special on television some time back about the discovery of the remains of one of those settlements that had been lost for centuries.

We Americans have a connection to your people. Keep your chin up.

[Mike Darancette]

MAke that Laki Volcano.

[Buggman]

EXCELLENT post.

Shalom.

[Quix]

This video seems to show shockwaves from the eruptions of the volcano.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/23/stunning-new-video-shows-shockwaves-icelands-volcano/

[winoneforthegipper]

Good stuff, Quix~

[winoneforthegipper]

http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/04/explosions_and_ash_at_guatemal.php

Interesting, since this was in our area of interest for quakes.....looks like that tension went a different direction!

[domeika]

If the greenies really wanted to do something self-less they would all start hurling themselves into the volcano to cork it.

Yes we caaaaaaaaaan!

[Quix]

THX FOR THE LINK AND YOUR KIND REPLIES.

[Steve Van Doorn]

At that same link someone shown a video of a past eruption at the same place a couple years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy58xijSZlg

[winoneforthegipper]

LOL...they were damn lucky a volcano bomb didn’t land in their lap!

Awesome though and I would have been there...lol