According to the Icelandic Met Office, around 1,400 earthquakes were measured in the 24 hours leading up to around midday on Thursday November 9, with another 800 in the first 14 hours of Friday. Seven of Thursday’s were of a magnitude of four or above – and all of these were on the peninsula, between Eldvörp, near the airport, and Sýlingarfell, a mountain just to the east of the Blue Lagoon.
The most severe quake registered 4.8 west of Þorbjörn, a mountain roughly a mile south of the Blue Lagoon, at just before 1 a.m. on Thursday.
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Is this title clickbait? Or was there something in another article about an eruption being imminent?
From the CNN link:
“… point out that an eruption isn’t necessarily imminent. “The fact that there are now larger earthquakes than before in the area does not necessarily mean an increased rate of magma accumulation,” said Thursday’s Met Office bulletin.”
Imminent might not be the best word choice, but they did evacuate people and declared a state of emergency.
It’s not that it isn’t the best word choice, it’s that it’s the totally incorrect, opposite of what’s being reported word choice. “Imminent” has a pretty specific definition, and basically every news outlet I have found includes statements saying an eruption is *not* imminent.
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There's all sorts of volcanic activity all around the globe right now. Separate super volcanoes in California and Italy are experiencing similar activity to that of Iceland.
There's all sorts of volcanic activity all around the globe right now. Separate super volcanoes in California and Italy are experiencing similar activity to that of Iceland.
Is supervolcano an official designation, or is that more like how every athlete in the WWE is a SuperStar.
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Is supervolcano an official designation, or is that more like how every athlete in the WWE is a SuperStar.
Yes, it's an official designation. Volcanoes are classified on the amount of debris it will eject during a major eruption and super volcanoes eject more that 240 cubic miles of deposits. For comparison, Mount St. Helens 1980 eruption ejected .25 cubic miles of deposits. If a super volcano erupts it is projected to be an extinction level event for the planet and most life will cease to exist within two years because of the atmospheric disruption it will cause.
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I didn't know one was in California. I thought the only one in NA was in Yosemite. Well, new (old) ways for us all to die.
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Is this one going to be as big as the one that shut down European airspace a while back?
From what I’ve been reading on RUV.is, the expectation is that this one will probably be bigger. That doesn’t necessarily mean it will have the same impact—one of the problems with Eyjafjallajökull was that being situated under a glacier meant that it shot up huge amounts of ash that were carried on the wind into England and Europe.
Right now they don’t know if it will erupt in or just outside Grindavík, but the latter is more likely. My family sent me some wild pictures of deep fissures that have opened in a golf course just west of the town that apparently grew over 1.5 meters in a single day.
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From what I’ve been reading on RUV.is, the expectation is that this one will probably be bigger. That doesn’t necessarily mean it will have the same impact—one of the problems with Eyjafjallajökull was that being situated under a glacier meant that it shot up huge amounts of ash that were carried on the wind into England and Europe.
Right now they don’t know if it will erupt in or just outside Grindavík, but the latter is more likely. My family sent me some wild pictures of deep fissures that have opened in a golf course just west of the town that apparently grew over 1.5 meters in a single day.
Really? Go back to your own country with words like Eyjafjallajökull.
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