Posted on 08/18/2014 9:58:16 AM PDT by blam
August 18, 2014
Myles Udland
There's a (increased) chance a huge volcano in Iceland could blow.
Lorcan Roche Kelly at Agenda Research tipped us off to the news that the Icelandic government on Monday changed the status of Bardarbunga, a volcano in Iceland located under Europe's largest glacier, to "orange," meaning there is a heightened risk of eruption and ash cloud.
A report from Reuters on Monday noted that this is the second-highest risk level on the government's five-level risk scale.
"Presently there are no signs of eruption, but it cannot be excluded that the current activity will result in an explosive subglacial eruption, leading to an outburst flood and ash emission," said Iceland's Met Office.
Kelly noted, however, that Bardarbunga sits under 700m of ice, or nearly half a mile's worth, and to break through this an eruption would have to be quite massive.
Reuters noted that the 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano affected more than 10 million air travelers in Europe and cost $1.7 billion.
Kelly runs through a few scenarios if Bardarbunga erupts. Though, of course, we are still very much in the "if" stage.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
And I won’t disagree with you.
We are domed!
We went through one of these ‘explosive volcanos’ in our state, believe me they are no fun.
Ditto in my part of the Ozarks. But I'm gonna keep adding.
Good Iceland links.
http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/
http://volcanocafe.wordpress.com/
http://earthquake-report.com/2013/05/27/wordwide-volcano-activity-copahue-volcano-chile-alert-raised-to-red/
We can only hope!
That’ll leave a carbon footprint.
But 700 meters of ice will melt when the volcano goes off. That will certainly cause the ocean to rise 700 meters and wipe out all of the coastal areas that we currently know, such as all of those little islands in the Pacfic, Florida, Malta, Italy, Iceland itself and even Washington, DC. And there will be no need for the panama canal, as all of central america will be under water.
(above said with 110% sarcasm)
OTOH, the good news is that if it blows, it may shut down some of the air travel conduits in the current ebola outbreak.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!!
Send AlGore to the volcano to plead with it.
Ba-da-bing! Bardabunga!
There was a similar century latency between the more recent eruptions in recent times nearby and their last recorded activities.
At least this one is pronounceable
Mt. St. Helens did the same thing. More than all human generated combustion, ever.
I was suggesting, semi-facetiously, that someone would blame the CAUSE on GW.
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