Hello KATLA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it will be ASKJA and not KATLA

[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]
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13 feet a day?

link?

That was Laki, not Katla!

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..

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]

"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.

[link to www.timesonline.co.uk]

Article, 21st March 2010.

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.

PS - 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

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Better than heading west and being driven off by Inuit in kayaks with composite bows.

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]

oh nooooooooo...!!!

new update

[link to www.iceagenow.com]

more reports coming in

[link to scienceray.com]

Earth is obviously under pressure... EQs Volcanos sink holes

Rig explosions..


too much pressure or to much external pressure.. or both?

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.

Everything going according to plans,now move along.

The 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

Shit, not good.

Remember what i have said.............Pressure on the Earth. Pressure on the stars.


And us caught in the middle. Little ol "innocent" us.

just checked again and another red dot on katla xx

Someone please explain why this is pinned?

[link to stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov]

Europe is going to get double slammed, Katla and oil brought up from the Gulf Stream.

OMG LOL that is so wrong

blow bitch blow. we're not special

katl-watever welcome to global warming