Buriedundersnow

last post in here folks I just don't like the way this place has been or is going and don't wish to be a part anymore if you wish to chat or that you can follow me on markwallace15@hotmail.com on facebook hope you all have a great winter with several feet of snow but unless it is epic I cant see me being a part of it so bye for now and for the future we will just have to wait and see#

Earthquakes Tsunamis â€@NewEarthquake 1m 5.3 earthquake, 108km WNW of Hofn, Iceland. Sep 15 08:05 at epicenter (20m ago, 82km Akureyri, depth 10km). http://j.mp/1pggWvg caldera dropped nearly 1m just with that one quake

Earthquakes Tsunamis â€@NewEarthquake 5m 5.1 earthquake, 97km WNW of Hofn, Iceland. Sep 11 00:07 at epicenter (20m ago, depth 10km). http://j.mp/1ouKI01

aye that's the one it was quite interesting and gave a lot of information about LAKI and KATLA it didn't really go on too much about BARDARBUNGA but it was before all this starting kicking off .

interesting article but it doesn't count KATLA I was watching a programme the other night on discovery science it was the first time it had been shown as it was relatively new and it was talking about KATLA and they took the guy up onto the glacier and there were also cauldrons up on top of the glacier you could see them and they were saying these were being caused but the heat from below like these ones on BARDARBUNGA so really its three glaciers which have these cauldrons happening on them the ones on KALTA they were saying appeared over the last 12 months but if you take into account probably a six month period between filming and this appearing on the telly then 18 months or so these kind of things have been appearing there as well. there is a tendency for when eruptions happen on this off shoot of the main central rift area that runs through Iceland then it means the whole area activates and goes through periods of high energy then periods where it goes to sleep so we may be seeing the whole area going into an active period so there should be more eruptions to follow throughout this whole area in the coming years.

Gisli Olafsson â€@gislio 4m SO2 levels at Reydarfjordur in Eastern #Iceland measured 2600µg/m3 today - highest ever in country. People told not to labor outside.

Earthquakes Tsunamis â€@NewEarthquake 12m 5.4 earthquake, 118km WNW of Hofn, Iceland. Sep 9 01:07 at epicenter (13m ago, depth 6.8km). http://j.mp/1lOCfZD

saw this and thought it looked quite cool

the so2 doesn't have to get into the stratosphere it can still do the same damage at lower levels of the atmosphere a fissure eruption would be unlikely to get the so2 right up into the stratosphere you would need a big explosive eruption like KATLA to do that although it doesn't get right into the stratosphere when it is released and interacts with water vapour in the atmosphere it then turns the so2 into sulphuric acid which reflects the sunlight and it can hang around in the atmosphere for years before it naturally dissipates now if we think if it was only to get up to 850hpa or 500hpa which is nowhere near the stratosphere then it would cool the lower layers of the atmosphere reducing the temp gradient meaning we would be more likely to see snow as the air below wouldn't warm as much as usual and we could see snow with upper temps we usually wouldn't purely because the lower levels in the atmosphere are colder than usual with the same upper air temps. it wouldn't create more blocking but it can disrupt weather patters greatly across the globe like LAKI it caused major drought in Africa and caused the indian monsoons to fail and it affected every continent on the planet but LAKI was like this it only had about a 2 mile section erupt at a time but the lava fountains would have been a mile high and maximum flow rate was 150,000 cubic feet per second and it ejected chlorine and fluorine and its so2 output for the total 9 month eruption was 120 mega tonnes I don't know how much this one is yet or will end up being. this eruption could go on a while if you think of LAKI taking 9 months and the eruption doing same as is just now working its way along the fissure or dyke then this could last a while as well and will be likely to erupt along the whole dyke and under the glacier at some point which will make the eruption more explosive and once this happens it will really be time to watch as if it does turn more explosive then it could have further effects on the fissure itself and put far more strain on the area. its going to be good watching for the next couple of months at least I think if this goes along the whole fissure then its eruption length will be close to LAKI but I don't think we will get the same amount of magma coming from it but I could be wrong.

3.2M in the dyke under the glacier first above 3M for a while Friday 05.09.2014 14:31:44 64.785 -16.909 7.2 km 3.2 99.0 14.2 km E of Kistufell

so2 plume heading for us now http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Images/ImageLibrary/DAT_2316893.html#plume at the bottom of page you can get the animation for the last few days

Earthquakes Tsunamis â€@NewEarthquake 11m 5.2 earthquake, 104km WNW of Hofn, Iceland. Sep 5 01:19 at epicenter (20m ago, depth 4.9km). http://j.mp/1xhYn3Z

LAKI was a fissure eruption and the gases didn't go high in the atmosphere but it radically changed weather patterns and caused a cooling which lasted a few years but that was a bigger fissure eruption than this but the so2 at low levels can still affect the weather in a big way it destroyed crops and that back then as well with acid rain and an acidic fog which was over Europe like I said though that was a far bigger eruption than this one LAKI was 27km long and has one of the biggest lava flows in the world.

the guy that reported it is in touch with the people on the ground so it will probably be real its hard to work out what it was its hard to see on the cams whats going on if the lava is still flowing or has stopped it could be something as simple as the lava stopping and pressure in the fissure changing and causing booming sounds and the smoke was just some ash particles getting ejected we will just need to wait for further news. don't be fooled with the seismometers not showing much it could mean something bigger is building so will still need to keep an eye on things we could end up with the fissure stopping then pressure building in bardarbunga through that.

Gisli Olafsson â€@gislio 22s Scientists near #Holuhraun report that 3 explosions in the area in the last hour with massive black smoke - via @RUVfrettir & @Sim0nRedfern

strong possibility as there are already fissure systems running through there that end not too far from the current fissure

the ones in the caldera will be from the magma chamber breathing as such think of a lung it will be taking in magma (breathing in) then ejecting it along the dyke to the fissure (breathing out) and we should get periodic earthquakes as the chamber empties into dyke which is bount to be fracturing the caldera roof as it does this. to the north of the glacier and that will partly be the fissure still working open and from the flow of magma and the force of it leaving the fissure. the more important bit to be watching is to the northeast of ASKJA this is a separate fissure and where we have EQ activity earlier in the year and there could be a chance that magma is coming up through the whole system from BARDARBUNGA right up past ASKJA just its finding it harder in the ASKJA area now if these two fissure systems link and come open it will blow ASKJA as well.

anyone wanting to check for any ash cloud especially seen as its dark can use this http://volcano.ssec.wisc.edu/imagery/view/

Earthquakes Tsunamis â€@NewEarthquake 7m 5.1 earthquake, 111km SSE of Akureyri, Iceland. Aug 31 12:01 at epicenter (17m ago, depth 7.4km). http://j.mp/1lpUVie

Gisli Olafsson â€@gislio 2m Scientists believe the #Holuhraun #eruption started around 0400. Lava is flowing at around 1000 m3/s and is 1kmx3km wide. Still ongoing.

now a lot of sulphur in the magma should we see a big eruption could be problematic like LAKI was it also released high amounts of sulphur and caused a lot of deaths. now there is no say whether it will erupt again or even if the sulphur would be released from the magma but its something to keep in mind and even if we don't see an eruption then theres a good chance that a later eruption would produce a lot of sulphur then. so if not now it will be something to continue to keep eyes on any unrest or future events.

Gisli Olafsson â€@gislio 5m Scientists from @uni_iceland just released the chemical composition report for #Holuhraun - http://bit.ly/1pfKNDV - #Bardarbunga Erik Klemetti â€@eruptionsblog 5m Petrologic and geochemical data on the basalt erupted near Bardarbunga earlier this week: http://jardvis.hi.is/efnasamsetning_holuhraunsins_nyja_er_komin … (via @jonfr500) Erik Klemetti â€@eruptionsblog 4m Long and short: the magma appears to be degassed with surprising high amount of sulfur in the magma (that didn’t get released as SO2).

the lights on the cams earlier wasn't any kind of eruption or anything to do with any magma it was the IMO driving around placing more sensors around the area.

Eruption at Bardarbunga now more likely http://www.ruv.is/frett/eruption-at-bardarbunga-now-more-likely

4.5M bardurbunga Saturday 30.08.2014 02:35:34 64.676 -17.463 8.3 km 4.5 99.0 5.0 km NE of Bárðarbunga