My goodness, the second Icelandic volcano has started erupting

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Breaking news......There seems to be a vast amount of activity in the earth's crust. What's happening? I wonder how long European flights will be off?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[Webster Green]

1. Oh shit!

This could get interesting.

[Better Today]

61. UPDATE: It's apparently a false alarm. An Icelandic Broadcasting Service camera was apparently

UPDATE: It's apparently a false alarm. An Icelandic Broadcasting Service camera was apparently pointed at Eyjafjallajökull and but it was labeled Hekla.

http://www.towleroad.com/2010/04/second-iceland-volcano-hekla-begins-erupting-in-iceland.html

[NJmaverick]

2. Oh crap, this can't be good

[babylonsister]

3. If true, this is not good news AT ALL...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8171711

Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is nothing to 'Angry Sister' Katla

snip//

Moreover, Iceland's "Angry Sister" hasn't even awoken yet. The three times in recorded history when Eyjafjallajökull has erupted, its neighbor, the much larger Katla, has followed suit.

Data do not yet suggest that a Katla eruption is imminent. Yet, in some respects, it is the far greater concern, both in Iceland and beyond.

[kentuck]

6. Thanks for calling it babylonsister..

I read your post last night and was talking about it with a friend.

[NJmaverick]

7. MSNBC is saying Hekla is the one now erupting

[babylonsister]

10. OK, Hekla, not Katla. That's a whole lot more I now know about

volcanoes in Iceland than I ever wanted to know. :scared:

I had no idea there were so many, for starters.

[Arugula Latte]

42. It's the land of fire and ice.

A good chunk of the country is a seething caldera. Hot springs, geysers, volcanoes, you name it.

[TransitJohn]

47. Yes it is...damn that Necron!

[TransitJohn]

48. delete dupe

delete dupe

[kentuck]

14. Yep.

They said there were quite a few active volcanoes in Iceland.

[WeDidIt]

8. This one is called Hekla. Apparently Katla hasn't erupted.

At least that's what MSNBC is reporting.

[babylonsister]

12. Thanks. nt

[progressoid]

18. Actually, it could help lower the temperature of the planet temporarily.

[virgogal]

4. OMG----and it's supposed to be the larger one.

[WeDidIt]

5. Not good for the economy

but this stuff happens all the time.

We live on a geologically active planet.

[eShirl]

9. gaaah... just read this morning that experts were afraid that might happen

here we go

[Brickbat]

11. Katla, not Hekla. But still.

[DCBob]

16. MSNBC says Helka... so anyone know for sure..

I think its a big difference.

[Brickbat]

20. I take it back, then.

I should know better than to comment on preliminary reports! :spank:

[DCBob]

24. Guide to Iceland's volcanos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8623239.stm

This may come in handy..

[Demoiselle]

35. Thank you. And all Iceland's volcanoes are on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Really interesting. I should have paid more attention in my college geology course.

[YOY]

13. I'm flying to Europe in Mid May...at least I was SUPPOSED to...

n.t.

[peoli]

15. 2012 is coming!

[Egnever]

53. +1

:evilfrown:

[DCBob]

17. Hekla has erupted before many times in modern history..

The most recent was 2000 and there wasnt much effect..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla

The big nasty one is Katla.. hope she stays calm.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Enjoy the heat while it lasts

we will have a nice COLDER summer.

And for those chucking and thinking this will not affect you personally...

And of course for the science ignorant round these parts, no this is not 2012, nor the end of the world... but a year without a summer might be in our near future.

[eShirl]

26. a colder summer would be nice, but a colder winter after that, not so much :(

[TwilightGardener]

40. Crop failures--hope that doesn't come to pass.

[starroute]

50. I think it's mainly the tropical volcanoes that affect the weather

I'm going to have to look for a link -- but the 1816 year without a summer was the result of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.

On edit: Here we go.

http://www.wunderground.com/climate/volcanoes.asp#Header1_7

Let's examine recent volcanic eruptions that have had a significant cooling effect on the climate. In the past 200 years, Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines (June 1991), El Chichon (Mexico, 1982), Mt. Agung (Indonesia, 1963), Santa Maria (Guatemala, 1902) Krakatoa (Indonesia, 1883), and Tambora (1815) all created noticeable cooling. . . . You'll notice from the list of eruptions above that all of these climate-cooling events were from volcanoes in the tropics. Above the tropics, the stratosphere's circulation features rising air, which pulls the sulfur-containing volcanic aerosols high into the stratosphere. Upper-level winds in the stratosphere tend to flow from the Equator to the poles, so sulfur aerosols from equatorial eruptions get spread out over both hemispheres. These aerosol particles take a year or two to settle back down to earth, since there is no rain in the stratosphere to help remove them. However, if a major volcanic eruption occurs in the mid-latitudes or polar regions, the circulation of the stratosphere in those regions generally features pole-ward-flowing, sinking air, and the volcanic aerosol particles are not able to penetrate high in the stratosphere or get spread out around the entire globe. The 2009 eruption of Alaska's Mt. Redoubt, located near 59° north latitude, was too far north to be able to inject significant amounts of sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere. . . .

There can be some exceptions to the tropics-only rule, and at least one high latitude volcano appears to have had significant climate effects; Laki (Iceland, 1783-1784). The crucial factor was that the eruption was almost continuous for over 8 months which lead to significantly elevated sulphate concentrations for that whole time over much of the Atlantic and European regions, even though stratospheric concentrations were likely not particularly exceptional.

[nadinbrzezinski]

58. Depends on how much crap goes up there

and how high.

This is already pretty high.

And a bit of material too.

By the way, they are already expecting a cooling from this... ok by a degree centigrade average, but will see.

Point is all those who continue to chuckle and think this will not affect them... well we live in a world that tends to have global effects to things like this,

[dems_rightnow]

21. They've removed the story?

It looks like it's gone now.

[Bumblebee]

23. Must have been just someone smoking near Hekla...

It was never mentioned by any other news outlet so MSNBC must have -- hopefully! -- received wrong info

[DCBob]

25. Yes, hope so.

No other news sources have it that I could find.

[Bumblebee]

34. They incorporated it into their larger story, but in a much less sensationalist manner:

Eyjafjalljokull, the volcano at the center of the crisis, is spewing less ash, but a second volcano began spewing a plume of smoke on Monday and it was unclear if it would add to the ash cloud. Icelandic TV showed a large plume above the Hekla volcano.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36637380/ns/travel-news/

[MellonCollie]

30. Yes, someone pointed the Hekla webcam at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

33. Phew!

at least for now! There's lots of seismic activity going on!

[liberal N proud]

22. The end is near - Repent - Save yourselves

:sarcasm:



Of course in unlikely the event the end really is near, I do repent everything I have done in this life in hope of saving myself.

[HipChick]

32. I need to go stock up on beer..

[NJmaverick]

51. I read a disaster preparedness guide that suggests beer is a key iten

as it can be used as currency after a disaster.

[FSogol]

57. +100 My thoughts exactly. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

27. And with the virgin shortage and all, we're doomed.

[myrna minx]

28. Oh no.

:-(

On edit - I can't find the story. :shrug:

[DCBob]

29. Here another breaking news link... seems it may be true..

http://www.towleroad.com/2010/04/second-iceland-volcano-hekla-begins-erupting-in-iceland.html

[HipChick]

37. live feed here

http://www.ruv.is/hekla

Media footage of plume only *indicate* Hekla may have erupted. Icelandic authorities have *not* confirmed that.

[DCBob]

46. Looks pretty peaceful..

odd.

[NJmaverick]

31. MSNBC has now vanished the news story

[Rosa Luxemburg]

36. sigh of relief!

....for now

[WeDidIt]

39. And it's not on any of the other news sites.

weird

[virgogal]

54. Irresponsible reporting IMHO.

[NJmaverick]

63. Apparently one of the monitoring cameras was pointed in the wrong direction

[tekisui]

38. Webcam on Helka shows it is NOT erupting:

http://www.simnet.is/jonfr500/earthquake/vefmyndheklaen.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

41. good

[DCBob]

44. That's pretty convincing.. wonder where all the false reports are coming from?

weird.

[tekisui]

64. Apparently, someone mislabeled a picture or cam.

And word spread quickly.

[DCBob]

43. More reports..

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290846

[DCBob]

49. They just pulled this one too... seems all false alarms..

maybe a hoax.

[ShortnFiery]

45. Paging Nostradamus!?!

If Mount Vesuvius erupts and the pope leaves Rome, I'm planting a garden and stocking up on non-perishable foods. :silly: :tinfoilhat: :evilgrin:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

52. if they grow

do you remember Mount St Helens blowing - it was like night and ash was everywhere.

[ShortnFiery]

56. Bummer!

I'll have to locate my MREs and stock up on stool softener, i.e., they bind you up. :blush:

[Speck Tater]

55. FYI: That "breaking news" link gets fresh stories continuously, so...

the story you were linking to is already gone from the page.

[DCBob]

59. Apparently it was just a "plume of smoke" and some in the media over-reacted..

"A plume of smoke from a second Icelandic volcano briefly caused concern Monday but its impact was quickly minimized."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36637380/ns/travel-news/

[MattBaggins]

60. No follow up to this on any news sites

Was this a mistake on MSNBC's part?

[Kalyke]

62. If you look at the fault lines, there are all forms

of earthquakes and volcanoes currently breaking apart the Oceanic Spreading Rift.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

[Subdivisions]

65. False alarm. Bad journalism. But there is this to consider...

Historically, when the one that cannot be pronounced goes, Katla has followed shortly thereafter.