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    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    hi bobbydog

    these quakes are like you say right in katla

    i think that if we get a few more bigger ones

    there an eruption is possible.

    with the activity lately i would not rule it out.

    It would certainly be interesting to get 3 Icelandic volcanoes erupting so close together, both geologically and chronologically close. I have watched Iceland since Eyja started and she has certainly provided a good show in the space of a year +

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    They have downgraded them now just 4 left

    Friday

    17.06.2011 17:29:16 63.710 -19.351 0.1 km 2.1 90.01 7.4 km ENE of Básar

    Friday

    17.06.2011 17:29:16 63.700 -19.247 1.1 km 3.1 90.02 6.7 km N of Goðabunga

    Friday

    17.06.2011 17:29:14 63.641 -19.144 0.1 km 2.0 99.0 5.2 km E of Goðabunga

    Friday

    17.06.2011 17:10:53 63.636 -19.131 1.1 km 2.1 79.77 5.9 km E of Goðabunga

    Maybe no this time after all. I must admit when I checked the site http://en.vedur.is/e...ull/#view=table the most noise I have noticed for months in and around Katla greeted my eyes, how exiting was my first thought :rolleyes: Jon Frimann said that a Harmonic tremor pulse in Katla volcano had been noticed the other day on his site, I think we are heading towards an eruption, the reason because that Harmonic tremor pulse in Katla volcano is a sign. When is the question, just guessing, (not scientifically of course its not my vocation) within 1 month. But also just guessing, because of those noises just out of nowhere the next 24 hours is most dangerous IMO

    Jon has just said "possible dike intrusion in the Katla caldera". That's dangerous enough, eruption risk is high with Katla, I think the Volcano is very sensitive to this sort of thing, it could start it off.

    Hi Rusty, I also think Katla is now at high risk of an eruption but how soon remains to be seen. As others have said it is overdue. There is also the link of it frequently following Eyja, add to that the harmonic tremor yesterday, the increase in quakes today and also the fact that the other recent eruption in the Grimsfjall volcano could very well have destabilised things enough to trigger Katla. It will be an interesting few days for volcano watchers I think.

    One more thing, a blogger on Jon Friman's site mentioned a few days ago about a stronger than normal smell of sulpher as he drove past, or over, the river draining from Myrdalsjokull the glacier covering Katla. Perhaps another indication of increased geothermal activity or even volcanic activity in Katla area.

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    As big as a camper van, I'd say!

    Edited - bummer - bunny is gone. Washed away by the tide.

    I can see a big rat though, bigger than a camping van too! http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif

    Clouds showing up on the Mila cam for Reykjavik , not sure if they are normal cloud or ash clouds but in view of earlier posts I would guess the ash is reaching there.

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    Yes, that would be fun, but not many daylight hours to see anything at that time of year.Maybe a little earlier in Spring when the daylight hours are drawing out as a compromise.

    Could get scary interesting quite quickly...

    I've heard the minerals in the hot spring waters are good for psoriasis, so it would be worth it just for that.

    Yes, lets hope it behaves as this is exciting enough. does anyone Know what time high tide is in the Jokulsarlon area as the flow is still all going outward although not quite as fast as earlier and the level is definitely higher. most of the foreground bergs have crumbled and been washed away. Is this normal or a sign of increased flow?

    Edit, 9 mins late;- I think tide has just turned as the water now seems to be slightly pushing inward at last.

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted

    Here we go again panic in the skies

    This is one of the comments on the daily mail site: Iceland needs to be held to account for all the disruption to business and travel. If they can't control their volcanoes they shouldn't have them. They should pay for normal power stations to heat their water like we have to. I have to fly to Dublin on Tuesday and will be extremely annoyed if my flight is cancelled again.

    - Paul Hugo, Nottingham, UK, 22/5/2011 16:05

    Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1N5zxLj21

    Lets see if a solicitor will take on mother nature in court!!!!!!

    Haha, sounds like someone has a rather sardonic sense of humour. Only the British have this wonderful humour I reckon. Spaniards don't understand it that's for sure.

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    Yes, big and interesting changes over the last hour. i wonder if any clever person is doimg a time lapse/? I'm just using my cursor as a measuring device.

    WOW! Did you just see the foremost berg just collapse and wash away? Awesome the power of water over ice. Now getting very interesting as large chuncks of ice are coming floating down. Just love it!!! Hubby grumpy at me spending so much time watching this. :pardon:

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    The foreground ice on the 'lake' is fast wearing away now in the increasing flow of water on the webcam at Jokulsarlon.

    http://live.mila.is/jokulsarlon/

    Fascinating too to see the chunks of ice begining to break off further 'upstream' and flow down, further abrading the ice in the foreground. The seagulls also seem to be very interested in the proceedings. Perhaps looking for a meal stirred up by the increasing flow?

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    it must be unusual because cars keep turning up on the webcam and people are getting out to have a look

    Looks like the place to watch then as usually there are only a few cars but not such high activity as today. Nice to get a front seat view.:rolleyes:

    Also I have never seen the ice moving and breaking up like it is, the waters are possibly warmer but certainly the increased flow is relentlessly wearing away the ic e in the foreground. Can't wait for the new cams to come online. I do like the way the Icelanders respond to volcanoes by putting up new cams so quickly.

    General Volcanic Activity Thread!

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    The cam at http://live.mila.is/jokulsarlon/ seems to be showing an increase in flooding. Previously you couldnt see the water moving but now it clearly is flowing fast towards the camera.

    Having watched this cam for weeks (on and off) I think the water must be tidal as I have seen it flowing in both directions. However the flow seems faster than I have seen it previously and it seems to be flowing over some of the ice which I have never seen before. Should be interesting watching for the next few hours to see any increase.

    On the Mila cam for Jokulsarlon it is worth right clicking on the picture to see it full screen. The flow definitely seems far more than the usual tidal rate now and also seems to be increasing in the last quarter of an hour.

    Convective Weather Discussion Uk

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    Hello! I was thinking about you earlier, I hope you're well! If we can't have snow, storms will do :yahoo:

    Hi slb, nice to hear from you. Yep I love storms, Snowstorms first, thunderstorms second and windstorms for the autumn. Can't have them now and destroy my plants.

    Broke a rib pulling up a small plant 6 weeks ago so wonderful to get gardening again at last and lots of lovely rain now would help me pull the weeds out,

    Convective Weather Discussion Uk

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    im surprised there are so many ppl in this thread atm ,as there isnt any storms lol

    We had a nice storm here earlier but I didn't have a surge protector for my laptop so had to turn it off. Some nice thunder and lightning and lots of lovely heavy rain. Just wonderful as I have just planted out a load of plants in the garden and thunderstorm rain brings down nitrogen that is a good fertiliser for them.

    Japan: Earthquake, Tsunami + Nuclear Disasters

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    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    Just on BBC 5..7 magnitude aftershock has just shaken the north-east of Japan, the US Geological Survey reports.

    How long will these earthquakes last for and is it normal for so many aftershocks ?

    I think the aftershocks go on for a long time, weeks often but I have never before seen so many large aftershocks as in this Japan quake. However I have only actually been checking for a few years now and this was a very exceptional quakeand has recently been upgraded to a 9 by the Japan seismology team as if 8.9 wasn't bad enough poor devils..

    Lunar perigee - 19th March 2011

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    Posted

    I`ve found a couple of links which the first shows what I saw yesterday.

    http://articles.lati...time4-2010mar04

    Now this is probably in the wrong thread but natural diasters are climbing fast over the world.

    This graph only goes to 2000 but wasn`t last year the deadliest year globally on record for natural disasters.

    http://xmb.stuffucan...ad.php?tid=3273

    Good grief just found this link.

    http://thesocietypag...1/2000-vs-2010/

    Definitely more eartquakes since 1900, but with a vastly increased population in the last 100 years any natural disasters are naturaly going to cause greater loss of life and economic distress.

    When I moved to Bognor in the late 1960's the population was reaching 30,000, now the population makes that seem like a village. Magnify that by the whole of the UK, then magnify that by world population, etc. Droughts, flood, quakes, volcanoes, hurricanes will caused larger disasters with a larger global population. Not really anything to be surprised at.

    Now to go back to the topic under discussion this quote from today's Mail really sums up all you need to know about the so-called Supermoon:-

    But Pete Wheeler of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy said to treat any warnings of an impending apocalypse with scepticism.

    'There will be no earthquakes or volcanoes erupting, unless they are to happen anyway,' he told news.com.au.

    'The Earth will experience just a lower than usual low tide and a higher than usual high tide around the time of the event, but nothing to get excited about.'

    Australian astronomer David Reneke agrees, pointing out that conspiracy theorists will always be able to find a natural disaster to link to a certain time and blame it on a supermoon.

    He told the website: 'If you try hard enough you can chronologically associate almost any natural disaster or event to anything in the night sky - comet, planet, sun.

    'Remember in the past, planetary alignments were going to pull the sun apart. It didn't happen. Astrologers draw a very long bow most times.

    'Normal king tides are about all I would expect out of this supermoon prediction.'

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1364124/Will-Earths-climate-patterns-disrupted-moon-passes-closest-point-19-years-week.html#ixzz1G2o75lte

    Central Southern England - Cold Spell Discussion Part 7

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    I'll take that as a no then .

    OK November it is.

    Bugger looks like am going to have to travel to the darned stuff then.

    :drinks: till later.

    much later !

    Haha, gets boring talking to yourself doesn't it. I think everyone in this region seems to have deserted this thread. perhaps it should now be regional mild weather thread.

    Sadly i think we have no chance of any more snow down here until December now.

    Lunar perigee - 19th March 2011

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by coldfingers

    Looks like theres already been 2 earthquakes and thats in our local paper.

    6.2 northern region of chile minor damage.

    6.6 waters off the solomon island south pacific.

    Hawai volcano was on the news this morning too.

    Sorry but in my opiniont here is no connection at all to earthquakes or volcanoes. If so what caused the recent Christchurch earthquake or what caused the devastating volcano in the Phillipines in recent months. If you watch the USGS earthquake site ( http://earthquake.us.../quakes_all.php ) which registers every quake in the world over 4.5 you will see that large quakes and volcanic eruptions occur with sometimes devastating frequency. Also this blog ( http://bigthink.com/blogs/eruptions/ ) is a good one if you want to monitor the frequency of volcanoes I am convinced that the moon has absolutely no effect on earthquake occurance. Merely coincidental, fortunately!

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