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Get ready for DECADES, YES DECADES of high Icelandic volcano activity | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 947110  United States04/19/2010 05:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.newscientist.com] We're not quite back to the pre-plane era, but air travel over and around the north Atlantic might get a lot more disrupted in the coming years. Volcanologists say the fireworks exploding from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Iceland, which is responsible for the ash cloud that is grounding all commercial flights across northern Europe, may become a familiar sight. Increased rumblings under Iceland over the past decade suggest that the area is entering a more active phase, with more eruptions and the potential for some very large bangs. "Volcanic activity on Iceland appears to follow a periodicity of around 50 to 80 years. The increase in activity over the past 10 years suggests we might be entering a more active phase with more eruptions," says Thorvaldur Thordarson, an expert on Icelandic volcanoes at the University of Edinburgh, UK. By contrast, the latter half of the 20th century was unusually quiet. Along with increased volcanism, more seismic activity has been recorded around Iceland, including the magnitude-6.1 quake that rocked Reykjavik in May 2008. Rifting strain In 1998 Gudrún Larsen from the University of Iceland in Reykjavik and colleagues used 800 years' worth of data from lava layers, ice cores and historical records to show that Iceland's volcanism goes through cycles of high and low activity. The peaks of these cycles seem to be strongly linked to bursts of earthquakes, which release the build-up of strain on tectonic faults near Iceland caused by the rifting of the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, the periodicity may be linked to pulses of magma coming from the mantle and pressure fluctuations at the surface caused by glaciers melting and geothermal activity. Larsen and colleagues showed that the Vatnajökull ice cap region – which includes the highly active Grímsvötn and Bárdarbunga volcanoes – experienced between 6 and 11 eruptions every 40 years during phases of high activity, compared with no more than three eruptions per 40 years during low-activity phases. Other regions of Iceland appear to follow a similar pattern to Vatnajökull. As well as becoming more frequent, eruptions seem to get more intense during the high-activity phases. A number of Iceland's most devastating eruptions – including that of the volcano Laki in 1783 that killed over half of Iceland's livestock and led to a famine that wiped out about a quarter of the human population – have occurred when the Atlantic rift system has been active. "If we are entering a more active phase, these bigger eruptions will become more likely," says Thordarson. Judging by recent volcanic and earthquake activity, Thordarson and his colleagues believe that Iceland is entering its next active phase and estimate it will last for 60 years or so, peaking between 2030 and 2040. 60 YEARS OF DOOM! AWESOME!  |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 783199  United Kingdom04/19/2010 05:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  Why don't you go fuck yourself tard? 800 years of data are being those claims... SO SHUT UP. The only thing i know that is able to deal with the natural habitat of volcano ash and the shit they kick up are Dinosaurs.So maybe these boffins can mutate Dinosaur DNA or an Ostrich with an Alligator or somthing and get a Pteridactil. Once we have a Flintstones based existance we can learn to fly these beasts with no effect to them thus keeping air travel a viable non oil based reality. I can only imagine a timeline starting from this afternoon until say 3-4 years time to get the first flying dinosaurs off the ground. This will not help the stranded around the globe at present . but these people will just have to understand that they will be the casualties of a newer greater Ostrich, Alligator, Dinasaur based future. What could possibly ever go wrong? |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 947135 United States04/19/2010 05:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Judging by recent volcanic and earthquake activity, Thordarson and his colleagues believe that Iceland is entering its next active phase and estimate it will last for 60 years or so, peaking between 2030 and 2040. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 94711060 YEARS OF DOOM! AWESOME! Indubitably |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 783199 United Kingdom04/19/2010 05:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why don't you go fuck yourself tard? 800 years of data are being those claims... SO SHUT UP. The only thing i know that is able to deal with the natural habitat of volcano ash and the shit they kick up are Dinosaurs.So maybe these boffins can mutate Dinosaur DNA or an Ostrich with an Alligator or somthing and get a Pteridactil. Once we have a Flintstones based existance we can learn to fly these beasts with no effect to them thus keeping air travel a viable non oil based reality. I can only imagine a timeline starting from this afternoon until say 3-4 years time to get the first flying dinosaurs off the ground. This will not help the stranded around the globe at present . but these people will just have to understand that they will be the casualties of a newer greater Ostrich, Alligator, Dinasaur based future. What could possibly ever go wrong? Im wasted on this thread! |
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aVian  User ID: 903212 United States04/19/2010 09:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OK, on the count of 3, everyone move 1000 miles south! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 924269 the WHOLE FUCKING PLANET WILL FLIP OVER"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat food, water, ammo, weapons, battery back up solar, hand well pump, wood stove and 1 year of food...oh yeah PM's too...good luck |
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| aVian User ID: 903212 United States04/19/2010 09:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is getting ugly Quoting: Anonymous Coward 534304EUROPE IS GOING TO BE ONE BIG GRAVEYARD 2 BILLION DEAD INCLUDING ASIA "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat food, water, ammo, weapons, battery back up solar, hand well pump, wood stove and 1 year of food...oh yeah PM's too...good luck |
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for overdooooooom !
