As if the Icesave referendum wasn’t enough, we now have a potential volcanic eruption happening in Eyjafjallajökull glacier.
There have been tremors for several days, and there are currently 20-30 quakes per hour.
Wikipedia:
Eyjafjallajökull … is one of the smaller glaciers of Iceland. It is situated to the north of Skógar and to the west of the larger glacier Mýrdalsjökull.
The icecap of the glacier covers a volcano (1,666 m in height) which has erupted relatively frequently since the Ice Age. The last eruption was from 1821 to 1823, causing a fatal glacier run. The crater of the volcano has a diameter of 3–4 km and the glacier covers an area of about 100 km².
Civil Defence is on high alert, ready to evacuate the area in case of an eruption.
The excitement just never ends.
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The power of nature puts all this Icesave nonsense into perspective.
“”My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The GODS are angry . Hell , those are the tremors from THOR.
Iceland , show the WORLD that you are not going to take ANY SHIT from Bankers.
When Lehman Bros. collapsed , SO DID YOU !
This is a GLOBAL problem. You are NOT to blame
IceSLAVE will NOT be paid. It CAN NOT BE PAID !!!
For telling these scumbag bankers to go to HELL , you will be respected the WORLD OVER !!!!!!!!!!
God Bless YOU my VIKING HEROES !!!!!!!!!!
I predict the volcano will only go booom … no, not if people vote yes or no but if they vote at all. Is there anybody left by s/he right mind who believes the referendum is an exercise in democracy? I hope not while knowing the tremors are real. Cheers, M.
My comment on this being a pathetic fallacy (pathetic in this case related to empathy) treating inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, seems to have been sucked into cyberspace. But on second thought, on the day of the IceSave referendum, maybe this is more of a Deus ex Machine- a dramatic device where a previously intractable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with a contrived introduction of a new character. Whichever big blast comes first, I hope that it doesn’t do Niceland any lasting damage.
sylvia from viking wirral
Cactus , have a look at, Brick Tamland, from the Legend of Ron Burgundy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTc32qBpAk&NR=1
I was following the quakes on http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/englishweb/ now for some days and was amazed. Wasn’t it Katla under Myrdalsjökull which was the volcano to be delayed? I never thought about Eyjafjallajökull…
Thanks everyone.
Something weird is going on with the comments. Some of you report them being lost, and I’m not getting notifications about them. Hope this will be resolved soon.
Skugga: Hekla and Katla are both over time. Lets see, what the next days and weeks bring. There where some reports about raising of the mountain, which can indicate upcoming lava.
Yes Alda I spent many many hours composing a long missive and now my literary gem is gone for ever!! sobs, still have fun with the no vote, can not wait for UKplc Gordon McBroon to start spitting chips (Lets remember this is a guy that blew the UK gold reserves and finished off peoples pensions, the man of the air passenger duty, your Icelandic 5bn is nowhere) over there they make the Greeks look competent money managers ha ha.
>Something weird is going on with the comments.
Ah, that’s a relief. I thought I’d crossed some line, black pen wise, in another thread by mentioning Birgitta and Lord Sutch in the same sentence
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Found another good source of info on this:
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/eyjafjallajokull-and-katla-restless-neighbours/
I stayed in Vík for a little while this summer after hiking across a section of Mýrdalsjökull (right over Katla). If anything happens, Vík is in a tight spot, so here’s hoping that’s it’s only a lot of rumbling and not anything else.
I just try it once more…
I have been following this development for some days now. The area north of Eyjafjallajökull is one of my favourite hiking areas. I suppose, it will be difficult to predict the implications of those tremors, particularly given the close neighbourhood to the larger volcano Katla underneath Mýrdalsjökull, which so far, has been a prime suspect for an impending eruption in this area.
According to vedur.is it has calmed down a bit over the last 24 hours.
Thanks to Ted W. for the volcanism site.