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Second, more powerful Icelandic volcano likely to explode soon
daily beast ^ | 4/21/10 | Martin Hickman

Posted on 04/21/2010 8:27:21 PM PDT by Nachum

Despite grounding 100,000 flights across Europe , battering a beleaguered airline industry, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers, disrupting schools and businesses, and giving homes under flight paths their first peace and quiet in decades, the current volcano eruption may be only a teaser of chaos to come.

A far bigger Icelandic volcano, Katla, is tipped to erupt in the coming months, potentially causing much more savage and sustained disruption to industry and society. Eyjafjallajokull erupted on 14 April, forcing European governments to impose a no-fly zone. Each time Eyjafjallajokull has erupted in the past 2,000 years – in 920, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823 – Katla has exploded within six months.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; europe; iceland; icelandic; powerful; second; volcano
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To: Nachum
Godzilla awakens!

Get your monsters right.


141 posted on 04/22/2010 6:49:18 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Nachum

What about Loki.


142 posted on 04/22/2010 7:11:41 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The Tree of Liberty ....)
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To: Mike Darancette

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V0T72Ghw


143 posted on 04/22/2010 7:16:06 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: MaxMax

Peelosi will include a special in her climate bill.


144 posted on 04/22/2010 7:22:02 PM PDT by Waco (Kalifonia don't need no stenkin oil and no stenkin revenues)
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To: editor-surveyor

scratching his backside is above his pay grade...


145 posted on 04/22/2010 9:30:42 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
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To: Windflier; STD; All

It was the Laki Fissure, and occurred in 1783, not 1793. Killed 10,000 people and 90% of the livestock.


146 posted on 04/22/2010 9:36:32 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Verginius Rufus; All

Boston also saw its worst earthquake in 1755 about a month after Lisbons disaster. That was a busy year. We seem to be having a busy year worldwide too.


147 posted on 04/22/2010 9:44:05 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Thanks for the clarification. I’m still learning the history on all this.


148 posted on 04/22/2010 9:44:57 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Leifur

Thanks for the history lesson. It’s very interesting.

When I was a kid, we were taught in our history classes that Leif Eriksson was the first European to lay eyes on North America, and that he founded a small settlement here.

I saw a special on television some time back about the discovery of the remains of one of those settlements that had been lost for centuries.

We Americans have a connection to your people. Keep your chin up.


149 posted on 04/22/2010 9:52:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Nachum

MAke that Laki Volcano.


150 posted on 04/22/2010 10:10:35 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The Tree of Liberty ....)
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To: GonzoGOP
EXCELLENT post.

Shalom.

151 posted on 04/27/2010 7:09:12 AM PDT by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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To: Nachum; winoneforthegipper; Steve Van Doorn

This video seems to show shockwaves from the eruptions of the volcano.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/23/stunning-new-video-shows-shockwaves-icelands-volcano/


152 posted on 04/27/2010 6:26:53 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix

Good stuff, Quix~


153 posted on 04/28/2010 4:40:50 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Quix; Steve Van Doorn

http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/04/explosions_and_ash_at_guatemal.php

Interesting, since this was in our area of interest for quakes.....looks like that tension went a different direction!


154 posted on 04/28/2010 4:53:08 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: GonzoGOP
If the greenies really wanted to do something self-less they would all start hurling themselves into the volcano to cork it.

Yes we caaaaaaaaaan!
155 posted on 04/28/2010 5:05:07 AM PDT by domeika
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To: winoneforthegipper

THX FOR THE LINK AND YOUR KIND REPLIES.


156 posted on 04/28/2010 6:40:48 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: winoneforthegipper
At that same link someone shown a video of a past eruption at the same place a couple years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy58xijSZlg
157 posted on 04/28/2010 12:29:28 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

LOL...they were damn lucky a volcano bomb didn’t land in their lap!

Awesome though and I would have been there...lol


158 posted on 04/28/2010 3:06:06 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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