Iceland fights back

[ProfessorFarnsworth]

New regulations mean a lot more flights will be about.

I welcome them, but I do feel there will be some sort of consequences.

Well the ash cloud density right now probably isn't high enough to damage aircraft short term, can't say for medium/long term exactly. I agree that they could get away with flying. Currently you'd probably have to fly right next to Iceland, downwind from the ash cloud to experience damage. However if let's say most of Iceland's volcanoes blew at once, especially Kayla (I think that's it's name), the ash cloud density would sky-rocket to a point unsafe for even new regulations. That's what they're most worried about.

[Scrapheap]

It's funny how now we get bombarded with doom scenario's.

Yes, there is this volcano often erupting shortly after this one.

But now I read about three more on the brink of eruption. One on Iceland really was threatening, because it has erupted 20 times over the past 2800 years..... (might have been a typo of course). And we all should be aware that there are many more active volcanoes on Iceland.

The tone of some messages on Icelandic volcanoes gets like the tone on predictions of the end of the world. Like supernova or comet in a time-span that all of us will be dead and humankind probably extinct. Weird, how there is such a hunger for stories told with a tone of absolute doom awaiting us.

Some of icelands eruptions in the past have had major consequences for Europe and the rest of the world, but the fact is, that the earth HAS cooled quite a bit and cataclysmic eruptions are likely a thing of the past. As a worst case scenario, we might see some eruptions that are on the order of 10 times bigger than the recent ones, but anything bigger isn't being predicted by any geologists that I know of.

[renaeden]

[Parts]

I want to go see if only I had a sail boat big enough

[odeon]

Apparently it's calming down now. The eruption is supposed to be over, according to a geologist.

[Scrapheap]

Apparently it's calming down now. The eruption is supposed to be over, according to a geologist.

Someone had better tell the volcano that a geologist said so. 

[DirtDawg]

Apparently it's calming down now. The eruption is supposed to be over, according to a geologist.

Someone had better tell the volcano that a geologist said so. 

GODDAMN unruly volcanoes!


I just gave you a virtual + KP .....

["couldbecousin"]

Apparently it's calming down now. The eruption is supposed to be over, according to a geologist.

Someone had better tell the volcano that a geologist said so. 

 :lol: I'd plus you, but...

[skyblue1]

msnbc.com
updated 11:16 a.m. ET, Thurs., May 27, 2010
LONDON - A second, much larger volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it may be about to erupt, scientists have warned.

Since the start of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which caused cancellations of thousands of flights in Europe because of a giant ash cloud, there has been much speculation about neighboring Katla.

An initial research paper by the University College of London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction said: "Analysis of the seismic energy released around Katla over the last decade or so is interpreted as providing evidence of a rising ... intrusive magma body on the western flank of the volcano

Earlier seismic energy release at Katla is associated with the inflation of the volcano, which indicates it is close to failure, although this does not appear to be linked to seismicity around Eyjafjallajökull," it added.

"We conclude that given the high frequency of Katla activity, an eruption in the short term is a strong possibility," the report said. "It is likely to be preceded by new earthquake activity. Presently there is no unusual seismicity under Katla."

Icelandic President Ólafur Grímsson has warned governments around Europe that a significant eruption at the volcano is close. "We [Iceland] have prepared ... it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over Europe and the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption," he said.

The UCL scientists, engineers and statisticians also criticized the response to the earlier eruption.

"The impact of the eruption on regional airspace could have been predicted and better prepared for as the growing problem of aircraft-ash cloud encounters has been recognized for decades," the report added.

"Similarly, the potential for ash clouds, specifically from Icelandic volcanoes, to interfere with air traffic in UK, European and North Atlantic air-space was appreciated by the aviation industry well before the start of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption," it said.

"The response to the ash cloud’s arrival in UK and adjacent airspace was entirely reactive and therefore less effective than it should have been

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37371442/ns/...ws-europe/