A massive flood of meltwater poured out of Iceland’s Myrdalsjoekull glacier on Saturday July 9th 2011, raising fears of an eruption from the powerful Katla volcano underneath, but experts said a large blast was unlikely. At around 3:00 am (0300 GMT) … we had a glacial meltwater runoff from underneath the glacier said Evgenia Ilyinskaya, [...]
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Volcanic Activity Causing Tremors in Saudi Arabia PARIS – 30,000 minor earthquakes recorded between April and June 2009 in western Saudi Arabia are due to volcanism, according to a study just released by the journal Nature Geoscience. The largest of these earthquakes had a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale, damaging buildings in the [...]
3 Earthquakes at the Katla Volcano have been reported by the Disaster and Emergency website Hisz.rsoe.hu In the past 48 hours 3 earthquakes occurred at Katla volcano, Iceland. The earthquakes may be due to ice movements within Mýrdalsjökull glacier or magma movement under the volcano. Scientists have been keeping a close watch on Katla volcano, [...]
As the Ash Cloud restrictions on UK airports are extended into Monday morning, Dr Dougal Jerram, a volcanologist from Durham University, warns us that the last big eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, which was back in the in the 1820s, went on for about two years, and its current eruption could last “several months”. Volcanology or vulcanology [...]
The Volcano That Stopped Britain Last night Channel Four, the UK terrestrial TV channel showed a topical documentary called “The Volcano That Stopped Britain ” Described as a “Documentary examining the background to the Icelandic eruption that caused extensive air-travel disruption across large parts of Europe in April, studying the geology of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano [...]
