A fissure eruption has started north of Dynjujökull, seen in the photo. A live YouTube stream is available below
Authorities in Iceland say the fissure is ~10 km north of Vatnajökull and currently measures about 100 meters long. The eruption started shortly after midnight on August 29 in Iceland, however the eruption seems to be subsiding in recent hours.
Another webcam view.
Mynd úr vefmyndavél Mílu.
Live YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoISDUAPNgc
Earthquakes:
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40!
40?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/climate-fail-files/list-of-excuses-for-the-pause-in-global-warming/
Thanks, my telepathy is always a bit weak before my first coffee.
Actually, I think pathetically small non tropical volcanoes was implausible excuse no. 2 for the ‘pause’.
In fact major stratospheric eruptions were the cause of a large part of the late 20th century warming. The lack of major eruptions is the reason temps have been fairly flat since.
http://climategrog.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=902
2!
indeed. Having found out what 40! was, I realise you are saying the same thing as my comment:
“Actually, I think pathetically small non tropical volcanoes was implausible excuse no. 2 for the ‘pause’.”
8<)
At least we have half a chance of pronouncing the name of this one.
My son and DiL have a lovely Icelandic friend who assured me that they can’t pronounce the names of some of those volcanoes, either. That made me feel somewhat better. 🙂
Oh, I’m sure I would get close to pronouncing it correctly but that’s not what I said.
The last one that made the news was called something like Ekjlasodiagnpoanbeacvu. Which even after looking it up and finding an mp3 and hearing it, I could not utter.
How could anyone possibly have any problem with pronouncing Eyafjallajökull? It is pronounced just as it is spelled. The only difficult points might be the “ö” which sounds more or less like the vowel in “girl”, and that vowels followed by double consonants are always short in Icelandic (and other North Germanic languages).
Thanks for the tips but even if try eating an apple and strangling myself at the same time, I don’t think I could make a sound like that.
I can manage welsh railway stations if I concentrate by icelandic volcanoes are beyond me. 😉
It could be worse…it could be in Welsh.
I prefer to just call it Bunga.
Kowa BUNGA!! surely? 🙂
Then we call the crater Bunga Hole.
And if it is noisy. Bunga Din! (Carry on up the Kyber)
Those are all good nicknames and as a bonus, they are easy to pronounce.
The “á” is pronounced rather like the vowel in english “call” and the “ð” (the fourth letter in the name) is a voiced lisp similar to the initial sound in english “this”. Otherwise it’s plain sailing.
The Icelandic letter ‘eth’, ‘ð’, is similar to the Anglo Saxon ‘thorn’. this is still to be seen in a debased form as a ‘Y’ on shop signs in the UK, especially England. If you see ‘Ye Olde Tea Shoppe’, the first word is actually ‘The’.
Quite a good summary on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29
lol try this one
Warning: insufficient number of vowels.
A proper long word: supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus
Many, many more are in German.
Favorite Three Stooges ingredient: anacanapanasan.
…von Ulm.
I think that in the dark of night some time ago, the Finns stole all the vowels from Wales… how else could they have enough for their heavily umlauted (double dots, e.g. ä, which is ae) language? I mean, really, they often have strings of double umlauted vowels
(pääsisivätkin as a small example from an article on volcanoes in Wiki), almost like
nya (nyää?), nya, nya, got your vowels and I’m not giving them back 🙂
Icelandic seems to be similar (looking at some of the articles on “the Bard”…today).
Quick, grab the marshmallows! It’s time to make s’mores!
Good Comment, magma is simply moving — Wow the scale of it is amazing.
On the other side of the world, a volcano erupted in Papua New Guinea, causing a population exodus from nearby.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/png-volcano-tavurvur-eruption-may-disrupt-australian-flights/story-e6frfq80-1227040827996
looks bad …
ah but in every dark cloud..
the silver lining might be that the aerial debris causes some rains for the drought areas of qld etc
we can hope.
and some speccy sunsets soon:-)
Rabaul is a very bad place to put a town, there being several very active volcanoes all around the place. However it has one of the best natural harbours in the World, in an area where good harbours are very scarce.
Thanks Tom
Coconut palms usually recover in about 2-3 years.
In preparing a business plan I found the volcanologists expected the Rabaul volcano to blow about every 113 years or so (as I recall) and at the time were only about half way thru that. Well about 2 years later it blew. Now “it” is blowing again 20 years later.
So much for “average eruption frequency”!
or may be those are “different” volcanoes?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/27/should-we-bomb-icelands-bardarbunga-volcano
MOST sites world-wide CENSOR ANY providence talk, except this one!!! Large eruption of Rabaul volcano, Papua New Guinea. 18km ash could and air flights rerouted: AVERTABLE!
The proposal says: widen the crater in case of an eruption”, that means bombing will NOT cause any eruption, tactical weapons will NOT worsen any condition, instead widening an exit hole decreases speed flow, thus we will NOT face the results of another air-traffic chaos, taking also into account that Bardarbunga gave in 1477 a very strong SIX VEI eruption, adding to the longitude of the Little Ice-age!…
tides are driving the magma flow.
by Monday they reach a peak. If the caldera doent explode by Tuesday, it wont in this cycle.
Hofn is the nearest tidals charts. It is about 95 minutes ahead of the tides at Bardarbunga.
http://www.windfinder.com/tide/hornafjordur_airport_hofn
This live webcam provides a good view of the activity:
http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga-2/
the other more important factor is pressures within the magma. once a relief to atmospheric pressure is found, just like a dropped but closed beer bottle it is relatively stable. but once you open it to atmospheric pressure, the gases want to evolve out. A fizzing bear bottle that runs over the top. Icelandic magmas are known for their high content of dissolved gases.
the best updated expert running commentary is here:
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2947
There is an erruption in PNG too, don’t have any detail, but 18km ash could and air flights rerouted.
That cone has a nasty history of repeated major lateral blasts that extend put for 30 km radius on average, but it is just a lump of poop on the rim of a huge caldera siting under the water beside it. Look out humanity if that one ever gets active again.
Just call it the bada – bing, bada-boom
Great video of an overflight of the eruption site…
http://www.ruv.is/frett/magnadar-myndir-af-eldgosinu
I would give credit to the person who posted this link, but I do not remember who it was. In any event, thanks.
Real time seismology + a webcam. http://baering.github.io
icelandic volcanicity is highly complex.
Large eruption today as well at the Tavurvur caldera on the eastern side of New Guinea. This caldera has a long history of small eruptions but also an occasional VEI 6 and, then given it is a large caldera, much larger eruptions would have happened in the distant past.
Impressive lava fountain and it is in a populated area.
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/08/29/10/01/volcano-eruption-in-png-casts-cloud-of-ash
Live continually update webcams for Bardarbunga and the fissure here (first has a voiceover from Iceland news, second is a very high zoom-in of the fissure).
http://www.ruv.is/ruv
http://www.livefromiceland.is/e/
This was a very very small eruption that lasted only a few hours. Only a very small amount of lava is visible.
It was so small that it has no effect on the volcanic activity in the Bárðarbunga-Askja region.
From 10:40 GMT this morning. Icelandic Coast Guard image:
Black is lava.
http://www.vedur.is/media/jar/myndsafn/medium/IR-20140829-104117-0000-061.jpg
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
For those of you having difficulty connecting to the Mila webcams, a live stream is available on youtube :
Whoops, sorry. Didn’t mean to embed the link which had already posted, just wanted to clarify that it was still working despite the Mila cams being offline.
More coffee!
I think with the new format they auto embed now.
5.2 temblor this AM, “subsiding” may not be the term we’re looking for.
Wonderful 3d visualization of seismic activity here:
http://baering.github.io/earthquakes/visualization.html
This way you can get a very clear view of the fissure structure.
Interesting web showing GPS measured displacement and earthquakes:
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/gps-measurements/bardarbunga/
Three areas of activity.
There is the beginning of a NE lineation of activity, NE of Askja.
It is not as active as the area midway between Bardarbunga and Askja.
And the quakes bigger than Mag 3.5 quakes for the past 48 hrs are all under the Bardarbunga crater.
Past 4 hrs:
A 3.1 and 3.6 in the Bardarbunga crater.
A 3.1 and 3.2 midway to Askja. (at least 10 above Mag 2)