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Anonymous Coward User ID: 999027 United Kingdom 06/11/2010 04:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | THIS IS WHY THEY ARE TRYING TO EVACUATE THE SOUTH!!!! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 999928BECAUSE THOSE STATES WILL BE THE ONLY UNTIED STATES THAT WONT FREEZE UP IN 5 MONTHS! THEY ONLY STATES WE CAN STILL GARDEN IN WITHOUT GREENHOUSES!!! I think the reason they are evacuating is because of the chance of a huge tsunami coming from the sea floor. In places it is raising 13 feet a day. Also, with all the chemicals coming from the oil spill, there is a chance that the rain will kill all of the vegetation in that area. Obama doesn't want any help from any other countries (who have dealt with the problem before), he wants Americans to suffer. He is Islam. 13 feet a day? link? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 895957 United Kingdom 06/11/2010 05:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would like to clear this up! This is Laki [link to en.wikipedia.org] This is Katla [link to en.wikipedia.org] They are not the same volcano!! This game of chinese whispers really burst's my blister.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 813354 Netherlands 06/11/2010 05:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Katla Volcano The home of the Katla volcano is Mýrdalsjökull glacier which is the southernmost glacier in Iceland and is almost 600 km2. It covers the upper part of a large volcano, the Katla caldera. Katla is about 30 km in diameter and the highest parts reach almost 1500 m a.s.l. In the center of the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap is the Katla caldera. It is oval in shape with the longest axis NW-SE and covers an area 110 km2. The highest points of the ice cap lie on the caldera rim and include Goðabunga, Háabunga, Austmannsbunga, Enta, Entukollar. Within the caldera the ice is hundreds of meters thick. During the summer of 1999 some activity was noted within the Mýrdalsjökull caldera. On the night of the 18th July came a sudden flood in the river Jökulsá á Sólheimasandi. The source of the flood was meltwater from a depression formed simultaneously in the glacier surface, within the ice drainage basin of Sólheimajökull. After the flood existing depressions enlarged and crevasses were formed. The depressions became deeper during the summer and increased in number. The reason was increased geothermal activity. It is possible that there was a small eruption at the head of Sólheimajökull that formed a depression and caused the flood. Katla erupted very powerfully in 1918 but there are evidence of smaller eruptions after that. Icelandic volcanologists are expecting another eruption in next few years so the Myrdalsjokull glacier and the Katla caldera are monitored quite closely. Just west of Katla and Myrdalsjokull glacier is another glacier, Eyjafjallajokull which is much smaller (50 km²). The volcano Katla is subglacial and has a reputation as one of the most dangerous volcanoes of Iceland. Its peak reaches 1493 m in height and the extension of the glacier Mýrdalsjökull which lies over it reaches 595 km². Mýrdalsjökull is the 4th biggest glacier in Iceland. The crater of the volcano has a diameter of 10 km and the volcano normally erupts every 40 - 80 years. The last eruption took place in 1918, meaning scientists monitor the volcano very carefully. Since 930, 16 eruptions have been documented. The Laki craters and the Eldgjá are part of the same volcanic system, so it can be regarded as one of the most powerful in the world. Before the National motorway no.1 had been constructed, people feared traversing the plains in front of the volcano because of the often occurring glacier runs and the deep rivers to cross. Especially fatal was the glacier run after the eruption of 1918. Through the ages many farms have been swept away by Katla eruptions with that of 1311 being recorded as particularly damaging. A farmer named Sturla is said to have survived with his young son by clinging to an iceberg which later drifted back to shore. An eighteenth century eruption killed several people while others were stranded for days on mountains that turned to islands as floods engulfed the plains. In Katla´s last eruption in 1918 icebergs the size of houses were seen floating out to sea. More recently in 1955 and 1979 there have been floods though no eruption that you could see. A glacier run (literal translation of Icelandic "jökulhlaup") is due to the eruption of a volcano under a glacier. The ice over the volcano melts because of the heat, causing water to form a lake under the remaining ice-cap. Then the ice-cap collapses, or the water breaks through the barrier in front of it, and there follows a more or less disastrous flooding of the land below the mountain. A glacier run is a type of lahar. It is not by chance that the term "glacier run" comes from the Icelandic, as the south of Iceland has very often been victim to such catastrophes. Lately, this was the case when in 1996 the volcano under the Grimsvötn lakes belonging to the Vatnajökull glacier erupted and the river Skeiðará flooded the land in front of Skaftafell National Park. The glacier run reached 45 000 m3s-1 and destroyed parts of the Hringvegur (road no. 1) estimated cost of roads and bridges destroyed was IKR 2.000.000.000. After the flooding some icebergs 10 m high could be seen on the banks of the river where the glacier run had left them behind. Since 1996 the volcano under Grimsvotn has erupted twice, 1998 and 2004. The glaciar runs that followed were nowhere near the catastropic one in 1996. A modern tale? An officer on the US naval base in Keflavik clames that when the glaciar run in 1996 started four of his friends wera on the bridge crossing Skeiðará in a Volkswagen beetle. All of them dissapeared and have never been found. This story has not been confirmed but the officer clames that it was kept from the press by the US and Icelandic governments. Eruption site Year/century Date Duration (days) Katla 1955 (small subglacial eruption) Katla 1918 12 October 24 Katla 1860 8 May 20 Katla 1823 26 June 28 Katla 1755 17 October ~120 Katla 1721 11 May ~100 Katla 1660 3 November ~60 Katla 1625 2 September 13 Katla 1612 12 October Katla 1580 11 August Katla ~1500 Katla 15. century Katla 1416 Katla ~1357 Katla 1262 Katla 1245 Katla ~1179 Katla 12. century Eldgjá-Katla ~934 Katla ~920 Katla [link to iceland.vefur.is] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 863042 United Kingdom 06/11/2010 05:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.timesonline.co.uk] Article, 21st March 2010. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 996402 Australia 06/11/2010 05:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | humanity has been around for a long time, we're still here through multiple disasters so im not too worried about some volcano in europe. Quoting: AW 1000294PS - hey mom im doing fine, been at ryans for the last few days. These things have been happening for a long time and in the same frequency. We just get to hear about them now with communications the way they are. .... and this is brilliant [link to www.youtube.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 917779 Canada 06/11/2010 05:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes this is the first real sign from Katla.The next few days could be interesting. Hopefully its another false alarm Quoting: Anonymous Coward 953706Time to launch the longboats my Viking friend! What better way to wait out the eruptions than an old fashioned raid on, say, England! Better than heading west and being driven off by Inuit in kayaks with composite bows. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 529850 United Kingdom 06/11/2010 06:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Eyjafjallajokull has blown three times in the past thousand years," Dr McGarvie told The Times, "in 920AD, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823. Each time it set off Katla." The likelihood of Katla blowing could become clear "in a few weeks or a few months", he said. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 863042[link to www.timesonline.co.uk] Article, 21st March 2010. and guess what..... the thre years you mention just happen to be the last three mini ice ages !!!!!!!!!!!!! |
ºLeelooº User ID: 869023 United States 06/11/2010 06:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Eyjafjallajokull has blown three times in the past thousand years," Dr McGarvie told The Times, "in 920AD, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823. Each time it set off Katla." The likelihood of Katla blowing could become clear "in a few weeks or a few months", he said. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 529850[link to www.timesonline.co.uk] Article, 21st March 2010. and guess what..... the thre years you mention just happen to be the last three mini ice ages !!!!!!!!!!!!! And guess what...your wrong! "It is generally agreed that there were three minima, beginning about 1650, about 1770, and 1850, each separated by intervals of slight warming." [link to en.wikipedia.org] BIG Badaboom! "it's not only at our doorstep, some moran has lit it on fire!" ~Anonymous Coward 919411 talking about doom |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1000366 Greece 06/11/2010 07:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How is it that not ONE of you can read the map? Quoting: Being * gnieB 609135This is not Katla activity! From the seismographs themselves: "Katla is NOT erupting and there are NO indications that Katla is about to erupt. Information on this page is for the Eyjafjallajökull eruption". |
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Werd User ID: 873894 United States 06/11/2010 07:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | THIS IS WHY THEY ARE TRYING TO EVACUATE THE SOUTH!!!! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 997861BECAUSE THOSE STATES WILL BE THE ONLY UNTIED STATES THAT WONT FREEZE UP IN 5 MONTHS! THEY ONLY STATES WE CAN STILL GARDEN IN WITHOUT GREENHOUSES!!! Florida Real estate will soon be worth trillions. DONT BE SHEEP! DO NOT EVACUATE! And we don't have a big enough army down here to fight off the hordes of people coming down from the north to find food if that were the case. Not to mention that USGov would more than likely throw eminent domain on us home owners. |
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nomind User ID: 904314 Canada 06/11/2010 07:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And we don't have a big enough army down here to fight off the hordes of people coming down from the north to find food if that were the case. Not to mention that USGov would more than likely throw eminent domain on us home owners. Quoting: Werd 873894The west coast behind the rockies might still be habitable too.. even up here in canada the west coast's winter is barely a winter at all.. Perhaps some clever greenhouse like edifices would do the trick in that situation My Interesting Karma messages: - "You are an idiot. This post proves it." -"GLP MEMBERS BEWARE!!! THIS IS A GOVERNMENT SHILL." - Most moranic one given to me: When you type ".." you need to put three dots instead of two. Thread: Nibiru, or how to appear like you know what you are talking about |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 991794 United States 06/11/2010 11:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes this is the first real sign from Katla.The next few days could be interesting. Hopefully its another false alarm Quoting: Anonymous Coward 953706Time to launch the longboats my Viking friend! What better way to wait out the eruptions than an old fashioned raid on, say, England! OMG LOL that is so wrong |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 982958 United States 06/11/2010 11:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Oh Shit ! 529850 blow bitch blow. we're not special |
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