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Fissure Eruption Begins In Iceland As Bardarbunga Magma Breaches The Surface
Over the weekend, we reported that Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano, located under Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajökull, has started to erupt with the Iceland met service warning of yet another possible pyroclastic cloud, one which will likely snarl transatlantic air traffic as happened after the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull and the 2011 smaller but just as damaging Grimsvotn volcano eruption.
Well, as Icenews reports, a fissure eruption has started in the Holuhraun lavafield north of Dyngjujökull. Newly formed crevasses were spotted in surveillance flyovers by scientists yesterday and at that time geophysicist Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson estimated that the magma intrusion which had been monitored for the previous week was moving only 2 kilometres under the surface.
The magma has now breached the surface and the volcanic eruption has been confirmed by scientists in the field. The low frequency tremors suggests the eruption is located outside the glacier. The blaze can be observed in Mila’s webcameras, two of which are trained on Vatnajökull glacier’s Bárðarbunga area.
According to the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police the eruption is thought to be coming from a 3-400m long fissure with direction to NE-SW according to first reports.
While not much is visible in the following live webcasts of the volcano, as it is currently night over Iceland, the magma glow can be distinctly seen from various angles:
More from Visir:
Lava eruption has begun in Holuhraun, north of Dyngjujökull. The Met office confirms that and webcams in the area show that lava is braking it´s way up on the surface.
First news from the Civil Protection in Iceland tell us that the Lava is making it's way up on the surface in a 400m long area north of Dyngjujökull.
The eruption is located on an ice-free zone which tells us that no ice is being melted so far causing floods in rivers in the north of Iceland. "This is probably located on the north end of the lava tunnel that moves from under Dyngjujökull. The eruption is located on an ice-free zone" says Rögnvaldur Ólafsson from the Civil protection in Iceland.
"The eruption is not a big one, but we urge people to be safe and not go to near the eruption," says Rögnvaldur. "There are chances of explosions."
A comprehensive 3D seismic map of the volcano after the jump:
So will this explosion affect your flight plans, or the air quality above you? Here is a real time wind map over Iceland to help you decide.
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Phew! I thought it was my old lady!
It'll be a COLD volcanic winter for Europe + no fly zone. Got Ruble to buy the gas?
sanctions against iceland
I weep at the wanton release of CO2 gasses this must be causing. Al Gore better be kickin' in some carbon credits against this or we're all fucked.
The first real vacation I will take, after my excessively long financial life drama finally settles down, is to Iceland. I had my eye on New Zealand for quite some time, but I just can't resist the couture of this fine little island.
My only choice is which season ... so now I get to visit four times! :-)
Regards,
Cooter
“fissure eruption has started in the Holuhraun lavafield north of Dyngjujökull”
Boy, that’s a mouthful.
That's what she said.
Evidently someone out there has significantly swollen jowls.
Ariana Huffington.
Maybe USA/EU can blame it on Putin, MORE SANCTIONS !!!!
Either way I love seeing Iceland fuck over those pricks in Euroland.
Watch Yellen use this as an excuse for the biggest TARP EVER!!
I hear volcanic dust is great fertilizer, bullish for agriculture especially in EU and Ukraine hahahha
EIther way, this volcano is a Terrorist, we need to bomb it especially since its in ISISland
Hmmm dont we have a military base in Iceland...funny how things blow up whenever we are near.
Wrong. Obozo and jhis corrupt entourage will blame it on Bush.
I once spent a winter in Iceland. It's surpisingly warm. I couldn't find any ice. Or was that Arizona? I'm so confused.
Yeah... hey... do you want the rest of that beer?
CrazyCooter:
Been to both, both are worth the trip. Climbed up Fimmvorthuhals and went in the magma chamber at Thrihnukagigur this summer. I was also ice climbing on Vatnajokull, the SE side at Skaftafel (other side of the glacier from the eruption).
Awesome place, if you like th outdoors, Iceland is a must see.
New Zealand is also worth the trip, went a couple of summers ago, caving and such... good times, good times :)
I know at least one place in Europe that isn't worried about Russian gas for winter.
could I have some for my tonic? I don't like it flat like that. Neither does the gin.
Between this and ebola, airlines are going to experience a "revenue" event. Short away!!
This global cooling thing is totally going to mess up the plans.
They're working on the Goldilocks 10.2 version of the global computer model even as we speak.
They've got great funding so it should be a smashing success! ;-)
ZH wind maps....we got it all. Yo!
Go short some airlines.
Maaagmah.
I just like sayin it ;-)
Molten smegma's the worst. How do I know?
I don't know 'first hand' so don't get smart ass with me, bitchez.
You're the one who held yourself out as the molten smegma expert here. So, I have to ask... how DO you know?
Well I identified Mycobacterium smegmatis as the causative organism in a leg amputation. Poor man claimed he got cut in the leg while working in a recycling plant. The Dr and I exchanged looks thinking there was more to the story but we just left it at that.
Miffed;-)
Not to be a dork ... but ... wiki makes this guy (gal?) sound innoculus ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_smegmatis
Mind if I ask if this was just wordplay or serious?
I recycle too, you know, to save the planet, but only with my wife (she likes to save the planet too). Or is it earth plus plastic. I was worried about Ebola, but maybe we are an endangered species.
Shit, it's late, I am tired, and confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8HP1WzbDk
Regards,
Cooter
Even the sweetest most friendly microbes can turn on you if given the right circumstances. M. smegmatis is commonly found in smegma where it's just one of those hangers on. This guy got it in his leg and he ignored it for many months until it invaded the bone. By the time the I.D. Doctor saw him it was too late to save his leg.
Last month I had a 45 year old woman who had punctured her leg working in her garden. She was a frequent flier diabetic here with blood sugars well into the 500s. She decided to treat it herself and for months drained it with a kitchen pairing knife. She went horribly septic. I isolated four gram negative rods ( each one by itself very bad), MRSA, and beta hemolytic strep group B and a common mold found on bread. They gave up trying to save her leg as well.
Cooter, I see things like this everyday. It makes me treasure my life and appreciate my health. Whether Ebola comes or not we should always remember this. Eat,drink and be merry my friend for we never know what tomorrow will bring.
My husband has a cloth grocery bag that says " I use this bag because my wife cares about the environment"
Miffed;-)
Thanks, I thought there was a little more too this. I used to game online (back when I was hardcore with MMOs) with an air force guy (Mal/David) who was mostly topped out as enlisted (career wise) in medical support. He boozed pretty hard but told some of the CRAZIEST stories.
Usually I am up late past the regular posting crowd (I am in Alaska) so it is a pleasure to see a non-adolescent response this late! My wife and I were up trolling the thread and we were watching George Carlin a bit (she hasn't seen his stuff before).
I totally agree about life! It is how I ended up this far north (just a bit past 58°) but it has been a joy of an adventure.
Hope you are well and safe in your neck of the woods!
Regards,
Cooter
MiffedB - am I remembering right that you are / were in the Spokane area?
CrazyCooter - I have a shirtail relative in Alaska married to a guy by the name of Travis Duxbury. Name familiar?
Connection: Shirtail relative is in Alaska now, married to Travis. Used to live in Spokane when a kid. I don't think she has ever been to Iceland.
Yes, I was in Spokane when I was 16-22. Mr asked me to marry at 18. I said I would if he 1) finished school 2) got a job 3) took me back to Cali ( yes, I said that but remember it was 1981 and I was suffering from seasonal affected disorder in the winters very badly) the man accomplished my requests in 3 years so I knew he was in earnest. Funny, our eldest is there now with a job and does get homesick in the winters.
Mr does miss the seasons and we do have the family farm there still. I am hoping if we return I can find a way to deal with my problem. Rolling up in a ball and rocking for months in a corner was awful.
Miffed;-)
I can give free excellent qualified medical advice here:
It's important to wash your dick.
And I still get smart ass. Well, this is fight club after all.
Bitchez.
Nobody could have seen it coming.
A natural disater should mean short bonds. But in today's world, NOTHING MATTERS other than some assholes deciding what everything should cost. Like fucking Soviet central planning on CRACK.
What a shitshow.
On crack and metodone it is, Soviets at least never pretended they were in favour of free markets.
"Hell is coming to breakfast".
Good sites to keep tabs on concerning space and our planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHLircqnqGg&list=UUTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQhttps://www.youtube.com/user/ThunderboltsProject/featured
Is this event taxable?
Natural gas drillers caused this after all and a scientist can prove it.
See, there's the thing, Mother Nature gets to do whatever she wants, throwing tons of methane-CO2 (and a few nordic bones) into the air and burning peaceful villages to the ground, no one says a word...unbelievable.
Where's the UN & IPCC on this atrocity! This effects the entire world and the world needs leadership on this!
Iceland must pay us!!! ;-)
Agreed. It IS for the children, after all.
And the blind and the handicapped and the women.
Don't forget the women ;-)
Terrriirrrist Volcanoooo.... we must invade Iceland, bomb them to smithereens.
A lot of 'bungas' in Iceland
I'm long MRE's and saved seeds, just in case. I'd also suggest looking into growing mushrooms in your basement. No sunlight needed.
The old ones or the new ones.... I miss the pork patties and beans...
Obomber should issue a stern warning
He'll claim this is what he meant by all of those red line comments.
Ash bitchez!
Bad news for warmongers, nature puts up no fly zone.
Vlad.... why?
This one is lost to history, but if y'all hear me singing this...DON'T SHOOT!
Oh Mr Moon, Moon, bright and shiny moon,
Won't you please shine down on me,ee-ee?
Oh Mr Moon Moon, bright and shiny moon,
Won't you come from behind that tree-ee?
Oh, My lifes in danger,
But I'm scared to run,
There's a man behind me with a big shotgun!
Oh Mr Moon, Moon,
Bright and Shiny Moon,
WON'T YOU PLEASE SHINE DOWN ON ME?!?
"At this point, what difference does it make?"
Grimaldus
Obviously global warming, where is Algore
Until Yellowstone blows, don't waster our fucking time. My BBQ grill puts out more heat on the weekend than what I'm seeing here. Move along folks.
Videos kinda gay. But the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLVmBOOqVU
the party is on
barbeque up some walrus flippers
and dance naked in the lava light
BadarbungaBadarbinga
Yo check out my volcano, it's gonna blow! BADDABINGA
Here comes the ice age.
I've been watching earthquakes for the last 4 years and I haven't noticed 5-6 magnitude quakes (about 4 so far) ahead of an eruption (withing two weeks) before. Could be a big one.
The CO2 won't cause warming because CO2 does not causes global warming but the ash clouds definitely cause cooling.
Another thing is that the earth's magnetosphere is very weak. Small M-flares are causing geophysical disturbances. A hit by a filament or an X-Flare could be really damaging at this time and into the future for some time to come.
The main issue with these types of eruptions is cooling from the sulfur dioxide. Think snow as far south as Rome and New York... in June.
A rift seems to be opening over a large distance. Quakes seem to be caused by decompression in Bardarbunga as magma flows into the rifts opening and fracturing of the crust caused by 'unzipping'. I guess it's only a question of time until those rifts connect to the mantle causing some large amounts of magma reaching the surface.
Erupting volcano used as a backdrop will work quite nicely for a good session of finger wagging at the camera telling people they need to submit and pay more to be safer.
I'm having a difficult time deciding if I'm on Drudge, or ZH. A volcano erupts, and most of the comments are about either 1) Obama, or 2) global warming. Because of course if mother nature can change the world, it means mankind cannot (Fukishima anyone?). And what Obama has to do with a Volcano is anyone's guess. But there it is. I suppose it was inevitable that this would happen, but sad nonetheless.
Speaking of drudge, I notice Joan Rivers is in a coma. It appears her not so flattering comments about Dear Leader did not go unnoticed. Of course, this could just be a tragic coincidence. I've seen legions of people die from larynx surgery.
Miffed;-)
Official estimates show that the Neanderthal gene is in about 2% of the population.
I agree with those who think that this number is much higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNhD0oS5pk
P00k1e thats my all time favorite tune!
That fucking devil again!
Another just errupted in Papua new guinea that will cause more disruptions. Some nervous natives there i bet.
The Napa earthquake was man made.
It was actually the American Canyon Earthquake as that was the epicenter, but Napa is known nationwide due to the wine industry.
I have lived in the SF Bay area for 60 yrs so I have felt every quake in those years. I am 25 miles away from the epicenter so I was shocked that it was 6.1 because it was an odd sort of sea sick quake. It was shallow 6.6 miles, natural quakes are twice as deep. Within a few hours I read reports of blue flashes of light from people watching on the hills, before and during.
Quake in Mexico reports the same as I felt and the same flashes of light.
This is operation chaos right now. Notice technology has stood still. Ya think?
Its just not revealed. The chart of earthquake frequency is off the charts in the past 10 yrs. I recall during this crazy war on terror, quakes in Iran, Pakistan where they had a hot spot.
Robert Zolar the high brow American astrologer said years ago (before he predicted 911) that the Aquarian age would use earthquakes as warfare.
They did this quake to show Russia, Pakistan, Iran, China, Brazil what they are capable of.
Recall Pappy Bush and Clinton viewing the Boxing day Tsunami. The locals said it was nukes in the sea.
I read that Pappy Bush, Clinton and Rubin stole all the gold out of Fort Knox, this is what the locals said.
the trucks went in high and came out low.....loaded with gold bars.
Go ahead and call me a Tin Foiler, its only tin foil when it is not mainstream and its too late to do one damn thing about it.
We love you, man!
Im a woman, but kisses for the truth.
Truth is agape, the highest form of love
I love you....:)
the world is wacked. pahoa is days away from being inundated with fresh american lava and all eyes are on iceland lava because of a few commercial plane routes. even american volcanoes get no respect.
Nice low pressure system off the southern tip of Greenland.
Iceland - Leading exports: Fish, Bankster ass-kickings, volcanic ash and consonants.
You guys are worried about the wrong thing. Some ash and flight disruptions for a week or two should be of the least concern. In this same area in 1783 the nearby Grimsvotn volcano erupted for 2 years and and a MILES long series of fissures opend up spewing cubic MILES of lava. All these volcanos are connected. Fountains of lava reached nearly a mile high. So much SO2 was emitted, it was equivalent to a Mt. Pinatubo eruption every couple of days. Lethal levels of flouride wiped out most of Iceland's livestock and a quarter of the population. The S02 and ash caused a global famine that killed 1%-ish of the world's population. Subsequent winters were some of the worst on record - the Mississippi River froze all the way to New Orleans.
+1 for the true story behind the anthologic "Let them eat cake!"
And don't forget the year without a summer during the subsequent Dalton Minimum and Mt. Tambora eruption.
..well not that it means anything but the lower forty eight haven't had a measurable earthquake in a day now.. that's an oddity from where I'm sitting,.
I was in Joshua Tree when the first of the Landers/Big Bear quake storm hit, and there were definitely lights in the sky that evening.. looked like blue ball lightning or HE airblasts to me- electric blue.. also heard a sound like rushing water under ground and the lights had gone out, My girl friend's 15 yr. old kid took off running in a hysterical panic, we found him a few blocks away still running to no where.
..funny things happen in earthquake country.
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Couldn't we just send a tsunami and Paul Bremer in mucklucks and one of those hoodys with fox fur?
karen o with trent reznor and atticus ross
Nine inch nails opened for Bowie. Dallas, tx.Bowie did vocals for them as his band took over, no intermission. Short show, but good.
Global cooling will begin. Hard sell for climate change taxation law making enthusiasts.
They will never mention how much Co2 levels blew off the volcano. You will still be blamed for climate disruption. Hand over your wallet peasant, don't ask any questions.
Volcanoes are huge influence on weather, the biggest. Next to the influence of our star, of course.
Climate taxation is still working on how they can hoodwink the peasants. Tax collector can't explain nor control the suns activity. 23.5 degrees is a running average. The Earth's axis tilt is not constant. Hence, different weather patterns.
Look up Axial Precession. Then shove your fist down someone trying to steal money from you. Don't endorse violence, but a gun lodged down his throat could reveal stories. Modus operandi .
bunga high or bunga low, that's the question
The f-ing Icelandic language is unpronounceable to non-Icelanders; they should just call the volcano "Charley" and the town it's near "Fred" etc.
Give us a break!