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Forget Eyjafjallajokull, Mt. Katla Is Now Getting Ready To Rumble
The ground is now literally shaking around Iceland's Mt. Katla. If that blows, look for Bund spreads to promptly catch up with Greek ones.
h/t Rusty Shorts
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Yah, fire or ice? Choose and prep. This is amazing. And then Yellowstone? And then US airspace is shut down.
Of course, that won't be a concern as half of the country would be airborne at that point anyways (a Yellowstone eruption is a near extinction level event for humanity).
- I believe another volcano close to Katla has just erupted, Hekla is the name, link to live cam;
http://www.ruv.is/hekla
- credit Herne the Hunter
We need to sacrifice a virgin!
We don't have virgins.
How about an investment banker?
Considering how many people have bought into this "recovery" I'd say we could rustle up a few financial virgins.
+1
The sacrifice ratio is 100,000 I-bankers = 1 virgin
And we're all out of virgins.
+100,000
ok, scratch the virgin and do the bankers
would blankfein, summers and geithner satisfy the gods?
No, they are the Gods. And they are sacrificing Charlie Brown. That would be us.
I'm in the process of legally changing my name right now to "thegods", and let me say up front that yes, it would satisfy me.
+1000 Chindit you are one sick puppy.
Carry on.
No harm trying. Perhaps Bernanke could drop them into the smouldering crater of Mt. Katla from his helicopter, since it's not dispensing aerial ponzidollars at the moment.
Na we need to find someone with a "brain cloud".
Thomas Friedman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFucVeBWUV4
If it blows, am I correct in assuming it's time to go all in on agricultural commodities and oil?
You forgot railroads.
And ash-wipe.
Ag? Yes. Oil? Not so much--considering there won't be any air travel for some time, and the economic depression that follows will likely drive down the price relative to most other commodities. Rather than oil, I'd go for PMs, as that would usher in an era of uncertainty we haven't seen in 60+ years at least.
Moved
Gaia is in the beginning throes of purging homo sapiens as an evolutionary mistake. Better luck next time.
+10000000
The sooner the better i say. I hope there is an afterlife and that ZH is present there.
perhaps. then again, maybe she's just giving her golden children a spanking to remind them who's boss.
tip e. canoe, is that you?
You changed your avatar. Damn, I scan the comments by avatar so I almost missed you. What is it, lava? It's too small for my tired old eyes.
lava & lightning courtesy of faustian's anon friend.
anyone have any ideas what's the cheapest way to buy case lots of canned goods ?
http://www.yourfoodstorage.com/
Not cheapest, but you want the nitrogen packaging.
I have had really good luck with this stuff...dried, not canned, organic too!
http://shopping.maryjanesfarm.org/s.nl/sc.2/category.13/.f#Storage%20Food
Your local Aldi. Seriously.
For other storage goods, Walton Feeds or AAOOB.
I can vouch for this myself:
http://www.waltonfeed.com/
Obviously, we are in the beginning stages of a wobble of the Earth's axis.
Either that, or this is Mother Nature's way of telling Iceland's creditors to go to Hell.
you are correct yet again sir:
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Marching Toward Siberia At 37 Miles Per Year
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017531445#ixzz0lYPJWuxSNope, just Cthulhu dropping by for a visit.
Does that top chart really say "god"? :>)
Sweet Sweet Sweet Irony
what a beautiful way to say
and the bottom says "ha u"
Time to stock up with 20kg bags of rice.
and/or learn how to create mini rice paddies in wading pools.
Rice is probably not what you want. A little research would be a good idea before buying.
brown rice and beans, canned tomatoes, canned salmon and toiletries. Oh and guns, lots of guns and ammo.
and enough baking soda to put out a volcano!
LOL
And here I thought it was only good for killing that ugly smell coming from my refrigerator. :>)
Stock up now while you can. Yellowstone is just around the corner.
Yellowstone has been pretty quiet lately. A lot of quakes in early 2009 and 2010, but not too much right now.
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html
I usually start to get nervous once they hit magnitude 3 and 4. It wouldn't take much more than that to let the magma out.
Brown rice has an even shorter storage life than white rice.
Very funny reading that this mountain is ready to blow along side an ad for Cougarlife.com
The synchronicity of randomly placed adds can be a joy to behold.
I think we are getting those because Cougar posts here.
Ah yes, Cougar, my all time favorite green Maine Coon cat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Coon
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/article.aspx?cp-docu...
In the "parenting" section, no less...
Cougar Moms!It can seem like it's your mom's job to mortify you. But a new wave of moms is doing more than making you blush: They act so sexy and flirtatious, they make you question their judgment — and your own sanity.
By Dan Koday
When Bri, 16, started high school, she thought it was cool that her mom was so much fun to hang out with. "My parents got divorced when I was 6, but high school is when it actually started to seem like a good thing — I was grateful to have a mom who wanted to shop at the same places and see the same movies I was into," she says. "I felt like we suddenly had so much in common, and I could tell her anything and she'd understand." But after a few months of sharing clothes and gossip, things started to take a turn for the worse: Bri's mom went from shopping at the same stores as Bri did…to flirting with the same guys. "Now I can't go anywhere without her flirting with every guy she meets. One of her recent boyfriends was 23. After that, she started going to my brother's hockey games to flirt with his coach — who's 12 years younger than she is — and they started dating." Bri says she wishes her mom would change — but not because it embarrasses her in front of her friends. "The truth is that my friends think my mom is so cool and pretty, and my guy friends think she's sexy. My ex-boyfriend used to joke about getting with her! But I don't want my crushes crushing on my mom. I feel like I have to keep her away from my new boyfriend to keep him from paying more attention to her than to me."
Bri's mom is the perfect example of a cougar: an older woman who's into (and almost seems to hunt down!) way younger guys. Lots of girls say their moms are on a cougar kick too: Meghan, 17, says her 46-year-old mom dated the same guy who'd dated one of her 18-year-old friends; Hunter, 18, sometimes feels as if her friends like her cougar mom more than they like her; and Jessica, 16, reports that ever since her parents got divorced last year, her mom "dresses up in short skirts and dates guys who are barely 25, then tells me everything about her sex life. It's so awkward." The truth is that you want to be open with your mom — but it feels unsettling if she's that open with you.
I ma really starting to think 2012 is a real deal if we even make it that far
I saw a good video series yesterday on a supposed big planet or comet in an elliptical orbit which may be returning
and thats why a lot of advanced civilisations in the past were wiped out. The Mayans knew about this travelling in an orbit of 3600 years or simething like that
I'm really starting to think something is happening like that
see www.the-rabbitts-hole.com
Dont know about rabbit-hole stuff, but here is a scientist's say about Sedna:
"
"The last time Sedna was this close to the sun, Earth was just coming out
of the last ice age. The next time it comes back, the world might again be
a completely different place," Brown said.
"
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/16mar_sedna/
Sedna is much too far away to be an issue. Its gravitational pull is so faint as to be nearly nonexistent.
Tend to disagree- very little is needed to disrupt the fragile equilibrium on the earth and break all hell loose.
And at 1.5 times the size of Pluto and quarter Earth’s radius Sedna is no small potato.
Undisturbed for tens of thousands of years the solar system has reached near perfect equilibrium. Then along comes the bully and pulls this planet this side and the other to the other side and then goes away but the solar system needs another thousands of years to settle down again. Meanwhile, as far as earth is concerned, with its crust as thick as an egg’s shell compared to its size, tectonic plates shift just slightly more, earth’s heavy metal core pushes just slightly here and there activating few volcanoes, few earthquakes, stuff like that…
"
Sedna's perihelion will be reached within this century, before Sedna moves back out and farther away from the Sun again for another estimated 12 thousand years.
"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna
I call enough on this moronic discussion - maybe this highlights the poor state of American science education maybe not but before exposing your thoughts about anything astronomical and its geophysical relationships with the Earths crust and what not it would be best if you had some idea what you are talking about.
The distances you describe are truly astronomical (pun intended) and the Mass of Sedna is many times less then our moon.
The only objects that has significant effect on our crust are the sun and moon and perhaps Jupiter.
I suggest you hit the books before you enlighten the rest of the zero hedge audience with your 'thoughts'.
map: http://www.skimountaineer.com/ROF/Beyond/Katla/MyrdalsjokullMap.jpg
Webcam: http://www.123-cam.com/live-webcam.php?var=http://www.ruv.is/hekla/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35988484/ns/technology_and_science-science/
"A general expectation is that because of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption, the fissure would widen and in that sense, there's a greater risk of extending into or underneath the glaciers and prompting an eruption at Katla," said Andy Russell with Newcastle University's Earth Surface Processes Research Group, who went with a team to Iceland before the eruption. "From records, we know that every time Eyjafjallajokull erupts, Katla has also erupted."
Russell said past Katla eruptions have caused floods the size of the Amazon and sent boulders as big as houses tumbling down valleys and roads. The last major eruption took place in 1918. Floods followed in as little as an hour.
It dIt doesn't matter if every volcano around the planet simultaneously blows, or 10 Richter scale earthquakes level every major city on planet earth, or tsunamis sink half of the developed world under water, or a giant black hole is devouring the Milky Way, or the sun goes supernova..............DOW UP.
This is America baby, the land of opportunity. (Is there anyone who still thinks there's even a semblance of a free market out there? And I mean anyone?)
Yep. Another day of non-existent volume and the market treading steady / slightly up.
+36000
What do they say in Europe?
"We wanted cash and they sent ash"
Chinese superstition has it that natural disasters are sure signs that an emperor has lost the "mandate of heaven" and that only a new ruler can bring calm to the world. It was the Tanshan earthquake which killed over a quarter million people in 1976, for example, which "caused" the death of Chairman Mao and brought Deng Xiaoping to power.
Superstitious?
After your little rant over at Ritholz site about ZeroHedge i expect you to fuck off.
CB, this guy is a troll who posts on MarketWatch under the moniker "kinito". Same song, different day.
Telling him to fuck off will yield to nothing, so best ignore him and save your energy for more productive discussions.
Yeah i know the dude from my days at MarketWatch.
That is until i was banned from that site when i told one of their columnist to fuck off.
Yeah ignore him, "great earnings from C". What a bird brain!
Did an angel earn his wings that day? LOL
I was leaving TBP just as Harry Wanger began posting more. Summer to early Fall of 2008. Wanger is a troll and a sh*t stirrer. A lot of Barry's regulars thought Harry Wanger was Ritholtz using an alter to mess with people. Anyway, BR and Harry Wanger turned a lot of traffic away from ritholtz.com.
Do you honestly think those are REAL earnings you are seeing there?
as real as the FRN itself
tolerance and moderation, tolerance and moderation, tolerance and moderation
harry don't ever comment again
Just pointing out that the market is reacting to strong earnings and strong Leading Indicators this morning. Don't be distracted by the noise of something that happened two years ago. Look at what's happening now. The economy is obviously stronger and improving with each report.
Don't worry, that's just the syphilis talking.
LOL
I'm stealing that line.
good nite Harry
Why don't you go over and close Guantanamo Bay, please. Our man O needs some help keeping his promises.
Barry Ritholtz, is that you?
Thanks for talking about cockroaches on "Tech Ticker" this morning. I guess it takes one to know one.
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/%22there's-never-just-one-cockroach%22-can-bulls-survive-the-goldman-fraud-fallout-470111.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,C,GS,XLF,FAZ,BAC
@CD
+1 As I posted above, many TBP regulars thought Wanger was a BR alter.
The writing styles are very similar. Regardless, Wanger is a roach. He's not trying to inform but to inflame.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=cockroach+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=22XMS4rWFIWKlwfc7cGqBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQsAQwAA
Please illustrate the depth of your financial ignorance Harry, and explain to us all what "earnings" mean in the context of C.
These earnings:
8:33 a.m. | Updated The New York Times’s Eric Dash provides more details about Citigroup’s first-quarter results.
Citigroup on Monday reported a $4.4 billion profit for its first quarter, as the banking giant continues to strengthen nearly two years after the financial crisis.
Citi’s profit, which amounts to 15 cents a share, was a sharp reversal from the $7.6 billion loss it reported during the same time last year.
All their money made trading, not from loans to consumers or businesses. You know, people in the real economy. Any chance you understand that?
Go away.
Amazing what a company can achieve without accounting standards and massive government subsidies.
God Bless them. Iceland. We are with you. Erupt away. The only way this could get anymore poetic is if GS long oil blows up in their faces. And the demand for shipping capacity to offset air freight pushes crude off the ocean and into land based infrastructure. Yeah yeah yeah. Wishful thinking. They probably found away to short volcanic eruptions too.
Looks like Volcano’s, Goldman or Greece aren’t going to affect Mutual Fund Monday
what would actually sink the market?
GS computer breakdown.
Being I work in Manhattan and live on Long Island......Anyone have any ideas as to the potential tsunami an explosion of this magnitutde could have???? Especially in the NorthEastern US.......
tsunamis generally occur when an earhquake strikes
at sea and the sea bed moves upwards at a subduction zone
usually. Unless the volcano eruption causes a huge mountainside to slip into the sea then I doubt it will cause
one. Again its the movemnet of the sea bed generally upwards
which causes tsunamis
I have two questions for you.
Do you ride the subway to work?
What floor do you work on?
6th Floor near the Chrysler Building.
I take 1 subway to work....2 stops...thats it.
Ha, not far from yours truly! Plus, I live on the East River, so if we get a serious tidal wave, the foundation of my building is probably going to go! Oh well, I'm on Mother Earth's earth, so what will be will be.
If you see a guy drinking heavily at an East Side bar, big, shit-eating end-of-world type grin on his face, it's probably me.
Ha, not far from yours truly! Plus, I live on the East River, so if we get a serious tidal wave, the foundation of my building is probably going to go! Oh well, I'm on Mother Earth's earth, so what will be will be.
If you see a guy drinking heavily at an East Side bar, big, shit-eating end-of-world type grin on his face, it's probably me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami
I urge you to buy some form of a floating device if something brakes like this in Iceland.
Curb - what Mr. Bastard highlighted above is what you have to look forward to if this little mofo decides to break bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja
mind-boggling...2000 ft high wave moving at 621mph.
the good news is that we can now blame the bad april jobs number on the volcano!
They didn't take gold down for long this morning, climb back up again.
They say every Icelander born before 1918 is deaf because this was the year of Katla's last eruption.
I do not get this
I thought the Gs scandal was an excuse to take the market down and thye wouod profit by shorting the market?
On a positive note, Katla is easier to pronounce than Eyja....
They shortened it after its last explosion. Its kinda hard to scream "Oh my God look at Katlamylogerhaboptipoojoo..." while you're running for dear life.Rumor has it that Eyja.. will be renamed to 'Bob' in a few days.
LOL!
You serious?...wow
Poetic justice?
Instead of Iceland paying out the Brits, the Brits will have to come to the aid of the Icelanders due to this catastrophe.
How sweet it is...
I am beginning to understand why Icelanders are putting up such a brave fight against the creatures that inhabit the side streets of the City of London and elsewhere.
They must be made of stern stuff to remain on such a cold fiery lump of pumice.
But it does help if the Gods of the underworld are on your side.
Following the unexpectedly good earnings anouncements from C -- "Balance sheet? We don't need no balance sheet! We don't have to show you any stinkin' balance sheet!"
I wonder if C's balance sheet is worth the cocktail napkin its written on ...
Is that Telly baby? God I miss that bald head and smirk. And the Kojak lollipop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_Savalas
Pardon?
Regards.
I think Hekla just blew. Seeing a plume that wasn't there just an hour ago. http://www.ruv.is/hekla/
Holy fucking shit, your right, I was monitoring it earlier this morning, HEKLA'S BLOWING.
Maybe theyt have pointed the cam at the active volcano. Google Translator is a little, er, rough...
Still time for Sven and Inga to throw their sleeping bags, tarps, and dried fish in the shopping cart and set to walking South. I hear Greece is cheap this time of year.
Tremor meltup continuing: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html
My HAU 1-2Hz 12-12 leaps are in the money!
I am wondering as the ice melts pressure/weight lessens and the rate of ejection increases.
Yes, it does.
More earthquakes caused by the land rising, and more magma production.
Every graph should be viewed in some reasonable perspective.
Here is the most terrible one:
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/god.gif
So what?
It's time to think outside the box. There needs to be a missle strike on
Eyjafjallajokull.Blow the top off the volcano and melt the surronding ice to stop this. The bunker busting bombs that the US has will do the trick.
I scoffed at the dire 2012 cataclysm predictions until recently. Now I respond with a nervous chuckle.
hekla another icelandic volcano?
we have three going off?
Roll up roll up, get yer early-bird piece of Iceland real estate; because given a long enough time-line, everybodies a f**king Continent
wanger
those "earnings" are through trading/manipulation and accounting fraud ie mark to fantasy
maybe you should join Cramer and liesman
usty I cannot make head or tail of that site
it shows hekla blowing
?
No - it's caused by insufficiently controlled women...
Ornery Bastard: Apparently Sluts Cause Earthquakes
Silly me...I thought earthquakes were caused by the movement of tectonic plates and the sudden release of energy from pressure and stress built up along fault lines. Turns out they're caused by Iranian sluts in tight coats and flimsy headscarves and layers of skilfully applied makeup. Who knew? I stand corrected.
So we can use this as a war device if we can figure ou the geometry of it. Sluts in iran cause eruptions in iceland. Let's see. a squared + b squared times the sine of alpha. Ok this isn't working according my math brazil should be causing 20,000 eruptions a second in florida. So there must be a counter slut component. We're going to need a million hookers in iceland stat to fix this.
Sluts have caused powerful eruptions throughout history.
And remember, a slut and a hooker are not the same thing. Sluts give it away, hookers you pay. Mix them up at your own peril.
I think there is some serious counter-party risk in this hedge you propose.
Ya I was just thinking the positions they slut in might affect the vector mechanics. If you loaded a place with too many doggy style sluts when you needed girl on top sluts you could mount sheer forces the wrong way. Anyway I more intellectually curious about what happens when enough ice melts from the volcanic material to put florida under water. Then the sharks go in and eat young people hopped up on illegal drugs and old people hopped up on prescription drugs. Then you got millions of drug crazed sharks trying to attack party boats in the med to get their next fix.
I think unintended consequenes could possibly be the next king of event driving.
Can't be true otherwise the Uk would have loads of earthquakes
There's this, too:
Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is nothing to 'Angry Sister' Katla
which concludes: As Iceland's glaciers thin, their weight upon the island's volcanoes will lighten, making it easier for magma to rise from the earth's depths, they say.
The data in the graph is from Eyjafjallajökull. There absolutely no activity near Katla.......yet.
Yellowstone is the big one, and it's getting ready to rumble IMHO. Massive earthquake swarms occurred in 2009 and 2010 (Jan/Feb). Instead of considering those swarms as a warning of the coming eruption, our idiot linear-thinking "scientists" assume everything's back to normal (since its quiet right now) - just like they ignored the earthquakes occurring prior to the Eyjaf... eruption.
And from what I'm reading, Katla blowing would be a real game changer.
I hear some people are complaining that volcanic ash is nuthin to worry about, the Eurocontrol folks are idiots and lets fly, fly, fly right thru that goddamn ash, here are some sobering pics of Finnish F-18 engines who did just that:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/volcanic-ash-gives-jet-engine-a-turbocharge.html
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