Iceland Volcano

Khamelion said:
Will the Volcano go boom? or is it just going to bubble under the glacier? IF it does go boom how badly do you think air travel will be disrupted?

This Iceland weather website shows the tremor count

There's a lot of tremors happening with 700 since midnight, with the bods in the know in Iceland saying activity is not slowing down and that an eruption cannot be excluded.
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Fingers crossed re travel disruption.I know a lot of folk that are going on holiday within the next week to 3 weeks and I a off to Dortmund a week on Friday for the Scotland game so don't fancy disruption either.
 
Apparently the fly rules are different than 4 years ago when I got stuck in Portugal and ended up with a 20+ hour coach ride from Faro to Calais and then being ripped off by P & O for a ferry crossing!
 
Bit like Hawkeye yesterday..... its gonna blow (sorry mate!) I think its a case of sooner rather than later and according to some sources, well the expert on radio 2 earlier, it could be Tuesday or Wednesday
 
Dodger said:
Fingers crossed re travel disruption.I know a lot of folk that are going on holiday within the next week to 3 weeks and I a off to Dortmund a week on Friday for the Scotland game so don't fancy disruption either.
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Looks like you'll be okay, as the reports now show the magma dike 10km north of the glacier the volcano sits under. Basically if it goes boom now, it's more likely to throw out a lot of magma and give a large firework display, rather than melt tonnes of ice and create a massive ash cloud.

Just on the dike, GPS reports reckon the dike is over 35km long and holds more than 300 million cubic metres of magma.
 
Khamelion said:
Will the Volcano go boom? or is it just going to bubble under the glacier? IF it does go boom how badly do you think air travel will be disrupted?

This Iceland weather website shows the tremor count

There's a lot of tremors happening with 700 since midnight, with the bods in the know in Iceland saying activity is not slowing down and that an eruption cannot be excluded.
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Armageddon- All planes planetwide grounded for a year, trains cars and buses will be stopped for 6 months, only horses with breathing apparatus allowed within a 600 mile radius.................How the 'f' do we know.............:whistle:
 
CMAC said:
.................How the 'f' do we know.............:whistle:
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Well at the time of writing, the speculation was that if the volcano had gone boom, the outcome was going to be a bigger ash cloud than that of 2010, hence the question.

But it appears now that the magma flow, all 300 million cubic metres of it is travelling north and as passed the glacier, so if it does erupt it will be a large fireworks display into an uninhabited area of Iceland.

That written though there was an earthquake bigger than 3 in magnitude situated close to Katla and if Katla goes boom then there will be bother for air travel.
 
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