GLOBAL TRAVELERS BEWARE: Another Icelandic Volcano Is Rumbling

TBI ^ | 1-3-2012 | Nick Jardine

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GLOBAL TRAVELERS BEWARE: Another Icelandic Volcano Is Rumbling

Nick Jardine
Jan. 3, 2012, 11:54 AM

Katla, yet another huge Icelandic volcano, is showing signs that it may soon erupt and cause chaos to world air transport.

Al Jazeera reports that earth tremors around the immense volcano are leading to concerns that an eruption could have both profound effects on Iceland's landscape, as well as disrupting travel worldwide. The volcano last erupted in 1918, making it well overdue for a blast, and it's lava chamber is thought to be some 10 times the size of Eyjafjallajökull, which erupted in 2010.

(By the way, this is hardly the only Icelandic volcano you should be worrying about. Last year we saw reports that Grimsvotn and Bárdarbunga, two other icelandic volcanos, were due to erupt.)

The threat is so great that devices that can be used to track ash particles in the air are currently being tested on European aircraft, Der Spiegel reports. Such devices should hopefully enable flights to continue in the event of an ash cloud following a volcanic eruption.

Some experts say that despite Katla's immense size, perhaps we're overreacting. Xinhua Net reports that scientists in Iceland are uncertain as to whether the volcano will actually erupt and, even if it did, they are unsure whether such an eruption would be large enough to cause major concern.

In 2010 the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, another Icelandic volcano, caused the grounding of numerous flights around the world with airlines concerned about the effect ash particles would have on airplanes' engines.

[SamAdams76]

Hey, if my fate is to be buried in a volcano, I’d rather have it happen while getting a tan on the beach in Hawaii than to have it happen while shivering on an iceberg!

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Astronomers unravel a mystery of the Dark Ages

The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

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The book, Exodus To Arthur, by Baillie is an excellent book.

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Katla is a super volcano?

No.

The last super-volcano to blow was Toba. See here for details.

[muawiyah]

Baille's thesis is more than interesting ~ what we now know about Bolides is far greater than what we imagined just 10 years ago. They could be very large.

BTW, analysts think that St. Gildas may well refer to more than one individual, but so little is known about the fellow (that pesky Dark Age saw so terribly many things burned) that it is a merely a scholarly thing to place his birth at 500 AD rather than earlier or later.

I think it most interesting that he wore a single garment, had 24 brothers over beyond the Wall, and otherwise preached extreme pacificism.

Worth noting ~ why Gildas delayed his writing was because he'd gone to Rome just before the event. What had been an easy trip in 534 was abysmally disastrous in 536. He reports of what he saw on his way back and it does sound like he went overland from Rome to Britain.

Shortly afterward you find King Ad giving away the family farm to the Saxons ~

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News from a few hours ago..

Huge volcano 390 miles from London set to erupt?
http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/01/02/huge-volcano-390-miles-from-london-set-to-erupt/

A volcano with the power to eject billions of tons of magma is due to erupt anytime, say experts.

Located under the Laacher See lake near Bonn in Germany erupts every 10 to 12,000 years, and last exploded 12,900 years ago.

Small earthquakes in the region indicate that it could be waking up, and experts predict ‘widespread devastation, mass evacuations, and even short term global cooling from ash cloud blocking the sun’, says the Daily Mail.

Volcanologists believe that the volcano is still active as carbon dioxide bubbles are rising to the lake’s surface, which indicate the magma chamber degassing.

Experts are not entirely sure of the effects it would have on Britain, but predict that large areas of southern England could be covered in ash.

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See comments, post #1

[elcid1970]

Hey, I second your choice of beach over chill mountains.

I live in beautiful South Carolina which has both miles of coastline and wonderful hills in the Piedmont area. I have vacationed in both places and rich folks whom I know have built huge houses in each of these locations.

But I’ll tell you this much, there are no black bears, snakes, or marauding raccoons on the beach, and there are no hordes of bikini clad girls in them thar hills (except maybe Lake Lure).

For me the choice is simple only please don’t tell my wife.

;^)