Volcanic Iceland: Earthquake with magnitude M 5,2 in Þorbjörn mountain (Fagradalsfjall mountain)!!!p1492

The lava field in Holuhraun is now over 37 square kilometers.

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That is of course....without ....any new fissures or eruptions! Check out this news headline. Vulcanologist says eruption at Bard is now more likely than ever.

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Cosmic rays are spiking...not sure if they have an affect on volcanoes,but thought it might be important .

Am so sorry if i get into trouble for posting this but that has just made me giggle. At least i can pronounce it correctly now :-)
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I love his sense of humor.

An hour before the Grímsvötn volcano erupted, a Global Positioning System (GPS) instrument perched on its flanks showed the ground shifting noticeably. Those data, streamed in real time back to volcanologists, revealed not only that the eruption was imminent, but also its likely size.

Iceland volcano live has some interesting links to things like this and some interesting graphs I'm still trying to make head or tail of. The paste above is from Nature.

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Me too, that's what made me giggle so much

Thank you for posting that...absolutely hilarious!!!

Have a great day everyone and remember if you see people without a smile, give them yours!

Another spike just hit but it's not been averaged yet.

All aboard the Bunga roller coaster!

I am currently preparing an advice sheet which, once finished, i will share with you at a later date, which will basically state, in my opinion, what we should be doing to prepare for the worst case scenario. But a thought ( quite possibly a silly thought) just entered my head regarding drinking water. If this event continues and worsens, what effect will the S02 have on drinking water?? When SO2 in the atmosphere mixes with water, we get acid rain yes?? is this likely to effect drinking water from the reservoirs???
MM and indeed others, thoughts please

When So2 enters the Troposphere and mixes with H20 it will turn into Sulfuric Acid. This is what caused so much damage and death to vegetation and livestock during the Laki event as they ate the grass etc. that contained rainfilled Sulfuric Acid.

The best thing to do is to get very good filters that will take out 99.9% of the impurities including sulfuric acid and this way you will still be abe to use any water from lakes etc.

Time to rest!! See you tonight my friend!

Jökulhlaup in northern california today!

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Thanks MM needed my line of thought confirming. :-)

Last Edited by koevtsibird on 09/22/2014 04:33 AM

BIG ONE

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the copter appears to work its way up to the source of the lava? is that lava flow or a fissure?

Increased activity in the last 30 minutes.

Monday
22.09.2014 08:14:33 64.672 -17.460 7.7 km 3.8 99.0 4.8 km NE of Bárðarbunga

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As you can see lots of cracks in the ice going in a round direction..oh dear

Wow beauty!

Professor of geophysics Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson told ruv.is this morning that as long as the Bárðarbunga caldera is not sinking faster than it has until now and the eruption in Holuhraun remains stable, the probability of a sub-glacial eruption will decrease.

However, if the caldera starts dropping faster, or the eruption in Holuhraun subsides, then the magma will likely find another way to the surface, he reasoned.

Volcanologist Ármann Höskuldsson told eyjan.is yesterday that he believes the current activity will lead to a sub-glacial eruption because there is much more magma underground than is currently being emitted at Holuhraun.

The caldera subsidence also indicates a sub-glacial eruption, although it is impossible to predict when it would start, he added.

According to Magnús Tumi, it is unusual that an eruption remains stable for such a long time. The Holuhraun eruption has now lasted three weeks and one has to go all the way back to the 1963-1967 eruption which created Surtsey island to find a comparable eruption.

The new lava in Holuhraun now covers 37 square km (16 square miles) and would cover most of Iceland’s capital.

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Good post. Well if magma stays under barda and it gets pressure off another way like holoraun nothing to worry but if that magma under barda and clacier erupts under clacier there is possibility caldera collapse and it is something to worry.

seems like the experts cant agree

i am OBVIOUSLY no expert, but all i see is a lotta stuff under there. ill go with the second dude

come on experts, can someone answer me this simple question? thanks

Yep...great division, several opinions in the Community.

Morning all!

It's lava flowing north from the fissure. The fissure is where the lava fountains are.

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I think:.

1. The volcanic activity will increase.
2. It will stay the same.
3. The volcanic activity will decrease.

Stay posted for further updates.

hello Cow