'Cauldrons' Found At Iceland's Largest Volcano Could Spell Big Trouble

BI - Reuters ^ | 8-28-2014 | Robert Robertsson and Anna Ringstrom , Reuters

[blam]

Robert Robertsson and Anna Ringstrom , Reuters
August 28, 2014

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Ice over Iceland's rumbling Bardarbunga volcano has melted to reveal a row of 1-km wide "cauldrons", possibly due to a sub-glacial eruption, the country's meteorological office said late on Wednesday.

Rumblings at Iceland's largest volcano system for about a week have raised worries of an eruption that could spell trouble for air travel. In 2010, an ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano closed much of Europe's airspace for six days.

The Met Office said on its website it had not observed an increase in the level of tremors in connection with the discovery of the 4 to 6-km long line of 10 to 15-metre deep "cauldrons".

Palmi Erlendsson, a geologist at the Met Office, said the warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry remained orange, the second-highest level.

Red, the highest alert, indicates an eruption is imminent or underway, with a risk of emission of ash.

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[SMARTY]

Mother Nature, once again, reminding us who’s REALLY in charge!!

[Raycpa]

Damn global warming

[gov_bean_ counter]

Well you know, with the earth being several million degrees 4000 ft down, all that heat has to go somewhere...

/s

[ThomasMore]

bada-bing Bardarbunga ... IT’S ALL OVER!!!!

[Travis McGee]

A North Atlantic mega-volcano could give all something new to talk about. To say the least.

[Rapscallion]

Is a “caulderon” the same thing as a caldera?

[Mercat]

Good question.

[Repeal The 17th]

Double, double,
toil and trouble;
Fire burn,
and cauldron bubble.

[Maudeen]

I watched a Perry Stone DVD “The 12 Gates to Satan’s Underworld” last night. Very interesting to say the least!!

http://www.voe.org/

[ctdonath2]

We’re gonna wish for anthropogenic global warming pretty soon.

[Gay State Conservative]

A North Atlantic mega-volcano could give all something new to talk about. To say the least.

I saw a documentary once that said that some volcanic island just west of Portugal and/or West Africa "can't recall the name) was so precarious and dangerous that if it erupted it could cause a collapse of the island so big that a tsunami of Biblical proportions would result.

Goodbye Boston...New York....Washington (well,Washington wouldn't be bad to lose).

[Lockbar]

The girls on Iceland need to leave now and get to my house for safety and care.

[Travis McGee]

Yeah, that could be a problem here in NE Florida.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yeah, that could be a problem here in NE Florida.

Surf's up in Jacksonville! ;-)

[Travis McGee]

WAY up. I suppose we’d have a few hours warning to get to high ground, in Tennessee maybe.

[painter]

I heard that the wave would wash at LEAST half way across Florida!

[blam]

"I saw a documentary once that said that some volcanic island just west of Portugal and/or West Africa "can't recall the name) was so precarious and dangerous that if it erupted it could cause a collapse of the island so big that a tsunami of Biblical proportions would result."

That's the Canary Islands and its been disputed.
(The islands were named after dogs and the birds were named after the islands.)

Killing off the Canary Islands landslide megatsunami scare

[KGeorge]

Thanks, blam. All I could remember is El Hierro, the location of last year’s quake swarm & magma movement. The specific island, I couldn’t remember.

For those interested

volcanocafe.wordpress.com

http://www.wired.com/category/eruptions/

Current news, speculation, ruminations, & you can dig around for info on La Palma/ El Hierro (or any other volcano you’re interested in.

[Kozak]

Cumbre Vieja on the Island of La Palma

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja