This graphic, educational volcano video was shot by @lilashrink at a tweetup in Harpa, Reykjavik. Takk Hjörtur explains the consequences and frequencies of various Icelandic volcanoes erupting including Eyjafjallajökull, Katla, Hekla and Laki. Explained is the relationship between eruptions of Katla and Eyjafjallajokull and some other Icelandic volcanoes. There are plenty of volcanoes in Iceland. Have you ever [...]
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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 [...]
Icelandic Tourist Board figures released today show that around the same number of international tourists are now passing through Keflavik International Airport compared with this time last year, that’s about 37,000 in June so far. The tourist board can now paint an optimistic picture for the summer season. The number of foreign tourists in Iceland [...]
Katla Volcano Eruption Overdue As the eruption of the smaller Eyjafjallajokull volcano subsists, the one which caused all the travel disruption, Scientists have warned that there is still a significant chance that the much larger Katla volcano, to the east of Eyjafjallajökull, will erupt. On the last three occasions that Eyjafjallajökull erupted, the Katla volcano [...]
Eyjafjallajokull volcano monitoring latest news: Eruption stopped, now just a plume of steam, with no ash. Scientists say the level of seismic activity is decreasing and is near that recorded before the eruption began last month with the lava flow stopping completely. http://mapped.at/volcano/index.html Eyjafjallajoekull – Volcano Ash – monitoring stopped on Monday May 24, 2010 [...]
It looks as if the volcano eruption may be ending, or at least this current episode, as reports of slowed eruption, stopped lava flow and reduced ash emissions are coming in. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-22/iceland-volcano-lava-flow-stops-ash-slows-university-says.html May 22 (Bloomberg) — The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano has slowed with the lava flow completely stopping and only “small amount of [...]
See the source of the ash cloud in this beautiful Eyjafjallajökull video by Sean Stiegemeier who took 4 days to get to Iceland in order to capture these amazing shots of the volcano, ash cloud, melt water etc. Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.
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 [...]
Parts of UK airspace are at risk of closure from Sunday May 16th due to renewed volcanic activity in Iceland. The Department for Transport said disruption could affect some of the UK’s busiest airports in south-east England until Tuesday. New transport Secretary, Philip Hammond said passenger safety was the government’s top priority. Ash from the [...]
Hundreds of transatlantic flights were cancelled or delayed on Sunday May 9th 2010 by a the volcanic ash cloud drifting south over Western Europe from Eyjafjallajokull. The airports affected were mostly in Spain and Italy, with the North of Scotland also involved. A statement from Spain’s national airport management agency Aena listed the following airports [...]
