Katla volcano in iceland sees 14 earthquakes in 48 hours. This may mean nothing, or it may be a prelude to an eruption. Either way it bears watching.
Via Ice Age Now:
Fourteen earthquakes have occurred below Iceland’s Mýrdalsjökull glacier during the past 48 hours – one within the last 4 hours. Katla Volcano lies beneath the Mýrdalsjökull glacier.
Katla Volcano usually erupts every century, says Iceland’s President Olafur Grimsson. and the last eruption was in 1918. “The time for Katla to erupt is coming close.”
“I don’t say if, but I say when Katla will erupt,” Grimsson says. “We have been waiting for that eruption for several years.”
“It can create, for a long period, extraordinary damage to modern advanced society.”
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/
Thanks to Jenny Cameron for this link
Also see this short video from Iceland’s president:
h/t to Russ Steele
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Interesting! And like global climate change, Katla will continue to do what it does, driven by cyclic engines beyond our current ability to ken or influence.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio (er….Hansen?), than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE / Hamlet Act 1. Scene V abt. 1601
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/ shows one lonely earthquake Monday. This line from the post applies today just as well as it did on the 10th: “This may mean nothing, or it may be a prelude to an eruption.”
I dreamt that it would erupt before this winter. People in the area were in a church on top of a hill and we were all watching. A news reporter on TV said “Katla blows without warning.”
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123351947/abstract
Very interesting article by 3 icelandic volcanologists re risk factors for Katla eruptions. The article points out that the last 9 times Katla erupted was during the summer and the main tenet of the article is making the connection between the summer melting of the ice cap which induces magmatic pressure change in horizontally elongated magma chambers like Katlas which in the past 9 events may have been the contributing factor preceeding the eruption. This melting/sinking/shifting of the ice cap typically causes micro EQ under 1 mag under 5km depth which is common in the summer for Katla. Is this what were seeing now? Yes, BUT, the EQ’s are slightly getting larger and deeper and if they continue to increase in depth, magnitude, frequency (dozens to hundreds) and especially clustering near the NW edge of the caldera or you start seeing significant flooding in the rivers near the NW edge of the glacier caused by sub-glacial magma intrusion and the govt starts evacuating the general area and then the flight alert is raised to orange, then..ITS TIME TO SHORT THE MARKET AND AIRLINE STOCKS (SMN, SSG, EPV, UAUA, etc). Will this occur this summer or next is the question, not IF. This summer the market will peak on the false speculation and hope of earnings as their panacea, so if Katla starts to awake, there is a collusion of events (macro economic, nature and geopolitical >> dont forget Israels move on Iran) that can only be likened to a perfect storm. Anyone shorting at that time will double their money in less than 2 months.