Katla - 14 earthquakes in 48 hours!

Ice Age Now ^ | 9 July, 2010 | NA

[Errant]

9 Jul 10 - Fourteen earthquakes have occurred below Iceland's Mýrdalsjökull glacier during the past 48 hours - one within the last 4 hours. Katla Volcano lies beneath the Mýrdalsjökull glacier.

Katla Volcano usually erupts every century, says Iceland's President Olafur Grimsson. and the last eruption was in 1918. "The time for Katla to erupt is coming close."

"I don't say if, but I say when Katla will erupt," Grimsson says. "We have been waiting for that eruption for several years."

"It can create, for a long period, extraordinary damage to modern advanced society."

[Errant]

There's a whole lot of shaking going on...

[Errant]

ping

[Jack Hydrazine]

Katla Can’t Wait!
Welcome Back Katla!

[blam]

OOPS!

Got food?

[mountn man]

Birthpang ping???

Seems like a lot of activity in Iceland recently.

Seems to be more things happening all over the world.

Next...Yellowstone???

[Errant]

Just inventoried and donated older stock; have to replenish and add more.

[JimSEA]

Yellowstone is a "hot spot" that is not connected to a plate boundary hasn't really had the level of activity that would say an eruption is going to happen right now. However is is active and the art of prediction isn't that settled. Katla has the double whammy of being a hot spot and on the Atlantic ridge plate boundary where the ocean floor is spreading. Frequent volcanic activity is a given there but not as destructive usually as a super volcano like Yellowstone.

What I am waiting for is a totally new volcano somewhere like Parícutin in Mexico where, in the 1940's, one day a guy was plowing his corn field and literally the next day a crack in the earth opened up and a volcano was born. That sort of a thing could put you off your feed for a while.

[MrEdd]

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[mountn man]

Around the end of '08 beginning of'09 there was tremendous seismic activity at Yellowstone. Back a few months ago there was another set of quake swarms, that the USGS says was larger than last years.

The floor of Yellowstone Lake had been lifting in the past. What is happening now, I'm not sure.

Though not in a subduction zone, should something start this thing up, it could make an eruption in Iceland seem like nothing more than a burp.

[Domestic Church]

North Atlantic Reference Ping !
14 earthquakes in the past 48 hours at Katla.

[RoadKingSE]

Got food?

Worth more than it's weight in gold someday. Pork fat rules!

[Errant]

Is that bacon pretty good? I’ve thought about getting a case.

[JimSEA]

Yellowstone has “end of civilization as we know it” capability certainly.

[dfwgator]

It’s the Year of the Kat-la.

[blam]

"That sort of a thing could put you off your feed for a while."

I'll say.

Facts about Paricutin

[Errant]

From Modern Survival Blog:

Since 17-May-2010 until this post 9-July-2010, there have been approximately 96 earthquakes at the Katla volcano site within the region of the Myrdalsjokull glacier. Of the 96 earthquakes, 27 have been within the Katla caldera. The image shows the earthquake locations with respect to the past volcanic eruption sites of 1755, 1823, and 1918. There was also a suspected region of eruption during 1955 which never broke through the ice glacier. It is located on the eastern edge of the caldera.

As you can see, only a few of the earthquakes occur directly underneath a previous eruption location, while the majority occur around the perimeter, particularly the east-northeast perimeter. Several others are scattered in other locations within the caldera.

It is interesting to note that of the approximate 96 Katla earthquakes since 17-May, the majority have occurred just off of the northwest rim of the caldera as you can see in the image above.

Katla has been fickle during the past number of weeks in that there have been days when hardly an earthquake has appeared, while there have been other days that have been fairly active. There was one stretch of several weeks that was very quiet, while during the past several days there has been quite a lot of activity, much more than average since I’ve been watching this.

Katla historically erupts following the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull (which first erupted April 14). Katla is about 10 times more powerful, and has the potential to cause worldwide disruption.

Katla Volcano Caldera Earthquakes

[piasa]

"It can create, for a long period, extraordinary damage to modern advanced society."

They should have named it Mt. Obama.

[SunkenCiv]

Myrdalsjökull

The volcano usually erupts once a century, so this is an uh-oh.

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[Steve Van Doorn]

katla has picked up a bit but nothing alarming yet.
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/gosplott.html

[Quix]

Looks like another webbot hit, to me.

Time may soon tell.

Got food?

[Quix]

THX THX

[Joya]

Hmmm ...

[winoneforthegipper]

Judging by the depth and no pattern to the quakes, I would say they are ice related......I used to know the average for quakes on katla during the summer months but have forgotten it......it's pretty high though. The glacier is very active during the hotter days up there...

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Thanks for the ping, Quix!

[Quix]

INTERESTING.

THX.

[winoneforthegipper]

Yeah Quix, the majority of the quake action is within a mile.....with very few at depth....not great indications of magma intrusion...more surface disturbance.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Quix]

OK. THX.

Though . . . I wonder . . . could increased heat from magma underneath account for such?

[winoneforthegipper]

What you would normally see in that scenario would be quakes at depth rising consistently to the surface. Meaning at the gasses rise from them magma rock fractures would show a pattern of such that you could actually chart it.

However...that is not really evident here right now anyways...!

[Quix]

I C.

THX THX.

[Quix]

DID YOU CATCH THE BIT ABOUT THE NEW MADRID AREA SURFACE CRACKS ETC. occurring?

It was a thread on ATS I posted the OP here somewhere.

[winoneforthegipper]

Nah....if u find it let me know...I have a friend heading down to Tenn. for her doctorate work....and I got her all excited about the smokey’s microquake range...and her proximity to the Madrid fault....I will forward her it if u find it....lol

[Quix]

i need to rush off.

Let me check ATS quickly.

Here it is:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread591069/pg1

[jacquej]

That is somewhat reassuring, but there will be a solar eclipse tomorrow, and the cardinal cross is forming this month. The period between Jul 23 and Aug 9th will be intense.

So, let us keep our lanterns filled.

[gleeaikin]

As some of you know, I have been predicting a really major eruption some time in the next 5 years as the end of what I have interpreted as an approximate 30 year period of intensified earthquake and volcanic activity on either side of the turn of a century. I have observed this tendency for 1800 and 1900, and now again for 2000. [I have to go to work, but will try to put up more details later.] Also I see Katla for 1755. Check out the same date for the great Lisbon earthquake, and also the worst earthquake in Boston.

[jackv]

What is the cardinal cross?

Thank you!

[SaraJohnson]

Obama’s a jinx to the US. Yellowstone - this is your opportunity to explode...along with the jihadists, Russia, Red China, Iran, etc. Any oil wells or chemical plants that can go off, will.

[Quix]

INDEED.

THX THX.

[Quix]

As some of you know, I have been predicting a really major eruption some time in the next 5 years as the end of what I have interpreted as an approximate 30 year period of intensified earthquake and volcanic activity on either side of the turn of a century.
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I have observed this tendency for 1800 and 1900, and now again for 2000. [I have to go to work, but will try to put up more details later.] Also I see Katla for 1755. Check out the same date for the great Lisbon earthquake, and also the worst earthquake in Boston.

Interesting.

Thx thx.

[jacquej]

A cardinal cross is an astronomical configuration where more than several planets are at 90 degrees apart from one another, and 180 degrees in opposition.

Saturn will be opposite Jupiter and Uranus, Pluto will be between them, 90 degrees away from each end. When the Sun and the closer in planets move to form hard angles to the former, a “cross” is formed.

This one happens when the outer planets are in “cardinal” signs. These are Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.

[jackv]

Interesting! Thank you!

[muawiyah]

All over the Midwest, Mid-Souf', Eastern Seaboard, etc. ~ this last winter's snows and cold were enough to create serious and widespread road damage ~ much of it hasn't shown up until June/July simply because the damage was UNDERNEATH the last pavement job and it had to work its way to the top to get washed out by intense rains this last May/June.

We had some stretches of Interstate and Interstate quality roads in the DC suburbs that showed up a couple of weeks ago with cave-in strips between main lanes. One of those events happened near us on our way home from IKEA in Woodbridge VA. There were about 20 cars pulled over to the side of the highway waiting for the insurance examiners to check 'em out. At the same time VDOT had a contractor on the spot digging out the broken pavement and putting in new asphalt. That strip was a good 100 feet long.

That's why I wouldn't worry too much about cracks in pavement ~ YET.

Best to get the county out there fixing the pavement.

[Quix]

Interesting.

Thanks for an encouraging reality check.

[RoadKingSE]

Is that bacon pretty good?

Its great if heated in a microwave for 30 seconds or so on a paper towel. I don't like it cold right out of the can. If you want an idea of what it tastes like go to Costco and get a package of the precooked Hormel bacon. Same same.

[Errant]

I have to go to work, but will try to put up more details later.

I'd like to hear more. I have the same theory but for a much longer time frame.

Thanks!

[Godzilla]

thanks for the ping DC - Can’t say for sure the extent of what they imply as far as an impending eruption - I don’t read islandic ! However, checking quickly it doesn’t appear anything is impending on a short term - things are rather quiet - and I’d expect a lot more seismic activity if magma was moving into positions for a Katla eruption. 14 quakes in 48 hours doesn’t seem to meet that threshold yet.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[The Comedian]

Looks like another webbot hit, to me.

Lookin' for 2 more major geological events in the next 60 days. This could easily turn into one of them. No additional details yet...

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[Quix]

I assume there’s no further markers, locations, hints etc.?

THX THX.

[The Comedian]

I assume there’s no further markers, locations, hints etc.?

I found evaluation errors in a couple of my models, so I'm reforming several of the process templates.

Nothing new yet.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.