Volcano erupts near Eyjafjallajoekull in south Iceland
An Icelandic volcano, dormant for 200 years, has erupted, ripping a 1km-long fissure in a field of ice.
The volcano near Eyjafjallajoekull glacier began to erupt just after midnight, sending lava a hundred metres high.
Icelandic airspace has been closed, flights diverted and roads closed. The eruption was about 120km (75 miles) east of the capital, Reykjavik.
What volcanic scientists fear is the fact that this eruption could trigger an eruption of Katla, one of the most dangerous volcanic systems in the world.
Eruptive events in Eyjafjallajökull are often followed by a Katla eruption. The Laki craters and the Eldgjá are part of the same volcanic system. Insta-melt could occur:
At the peak of the 1755 Katla eruption the flood discharge has been estimated between 200,000–400,000 m³/s; for comparison the combined average discharge of the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers is about 290,000 m³/s.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla
Video of the eruption:
Volcano Eruption in Eyjafjallajökull Iceland 20 Mars 2010.
The volcano near the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier began to erupt shortly after midnight, leading to road closures in the area.
No one was in immediate danger, but 500 people were being moved from the area.
It is almost 200 years since a volcano near Eyjafjallajokull, 120km (75 miles) east of Reykjavik, last erupted. The last volcanic eruption in the area occurred in 1821.
Taken from C-FQWY / TF-SIF DHC-8-314Q Dash 8
Another anomaly: (BBC) July 22, 2009 — Quake moves NZ towards Australia:
“…it was New Zealand’s biggest earthquake in 78 years…”
“While the south-west of the South Island moved about 30cm towards Australia, the east coast moved only one centimetre westwards, Dr Gledhill said.”Basically, New Zealand just got a little bit bigger is another way to think about it,” he told AFP news agency.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8162628.stm
According to the “subduction” model New Zealand should move towards the East, but the July 2009 earthquake contradicted that by New Zealand getting “bigger” and moving 30 cm towards the Australia.
Could it be another example of an expanding Earth?
(Interesting note: New Zealand is an island chain that sits above where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate comes into contact with the Pacific plate. Earlier in this thread I stated that Iceland is the only mid-ocean spreading ridge exposed to the atmosphere above sea level, but a solid argument can be made that New Zealand is also an example of an expression of a mid-ocean spreading ridge above sea level, although, it would seem much older and, therefore, has been exposed to atmospheric erosion much longer. Side note: Producing offshore oil & gas wells are present on the underwater slopes of a New Zealand island volcano.)
Shiveluch has puffed again.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14948671&PageNum=0
I’ve read Leif at sc24.com that sunspots reported during the Maunder were big spots. Even if cycle 24 turns out small, we could still get really large spots without the interference from other spots if solar activity remains low.
James F. Evans (10:19:00) :
..glacial rebound can’t explain all the observations & measurements of rising elevations ..
Carla, come into the Expanding Earth water, it’s warm and feels good, come into direct sunlight, the shadows on the cave wall are dim and stifling.
You seem like a girl that likes the sunshine on her face and the wind in her hair — not the smoky, dim light, and stifling shadows that dominate the cave 🙂
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James, I understand that glacial rebound doesn’t explain all. But I do think that we yet don’t completely understand all that glacial rebound means to the expansion, contraction debate.
A five year of Canadian quakes including the St Lawerence R. and Niagara Escarpment. Since I am on the western side of the Escarpment cork it is interesting to me.
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/maps-cartes/index-eng.php?maptype=5y&tpl_region=canada
I am going to sit on the fence and watch the expanding and contraction debate.
There is something in the “TIME” elements used in the debate that I find troubling. Within in the time constraints I am seeing an expansion and contraction that is occurring without an overall expansion, like the Earth getting bigger scenario. Then on the other hand I do see an accretion ah of sorts that is occurring and has in the past, sometimes much more and sometimes less. hmm So, I am stuck on the fence.
Coming out of the cave. lol Better for me to stay in the dim lit, smoky underground world. It’s Spring around here. Younger sis takes the older mother shopping. They call you on the phone and ask you how your paint brushes and roller stats are? And you start thinking man haven’t raked the lawn yet and they see a paint job too? argh! Next thing ya know there will be half gallon bottle of windex and roll towels too. I get enough sunlight Mon-Fri in the 9 to 5 regime. Hey .. thanks anyway, I’ll hang at the cave, it’s safer.
Well, at least you can’t say the guy didn’t ask 🙂
As to your link, what does it show?
Only that earthquakes happen with regular frequency, and happen with more frequency in specific locations — which mitagates against a general “glacial rebound” effect because the ice age glaciers were, to my knowledge, fairly evenly spread-out, and these earthquakes are not evenly spread-out.
Actually, these earthquakes with their trend to specific locations argues more for an expanding Earth than “glacial rebound”.
“Glacial rebound” is a speculation — there is no established causal link between Northern earthquakes and receding glaciers, and remember, corollation is not causation, and even the corollation is weak per the link provided.
But why do we hear so much about so-called “glacial rebound”?
Because it’s another ‘but for’ test: But for speculations of “glacial rebound” there would be only one other answer for consistent earthquakes with rising elevations observed & measured after the earthquakes: The Earth is expanding.
The glaciers have been gone for, what, 12,000 years.
Yet, regular earthquakes with concomitant rises in elevation happen like clockwork.
Reports of subsidence very much trend to local phenomenon (often attended with nearby uplift), whereas, uplift is secular over broad
areas, in fact, it trends over the whole Earth.
Carla, you are welcome to stay in the cave — but then you won’t ever know what the physical reality is — instead you will know what somebody else wants you to believe the reality is…big difference.
James F. Evans (11:25:40) :
As to your link, what does it show?
Reports over the last few years of melting of permafrost for first time in.. well drunken tree depictions from the A.G. movie also would come to mind here.
That its not over till the reverse trend is evident. And since the N. Polar ice sheet over the Arctic is now stabilizing and reversing. And that the north magnetic pole is now heading for Siberia again.
If you take a look at the horn of Africa James and draw rotational extension so you see the extensional effects to the horn of South America, we might start selling Island real estate. The tectonic linkage all the way down the central to southern America is showing its intent. Little note. . National Geographic this month contains a bonus map entitled World of Rivers. The south American rivers in the horn all run west to east and don’t reach the east coast. huh just saw it today.
oops correction small percentage of the west to east rivers in the S. American horn do reach the east coast.
Escalating eruption Icelandic volcano, new fissure opened, volcano inflating, rise in tremor and quake events.
Watch this breathtaking video made today:
http://http.ruv.straumar.is/static.ruv.is/vefur/01042010_flogid_yfir_gosstodvar_1_april.wmv