The Iceland Volcano Thread

maquiladora

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/myrdalsjokull.html

A few more earthquakes at Eyjafjallajökull within the last hour, and one close to the Katla caldera too.

rebel girl 15

Cork and Kerry are only airports currently open, and are closing later this evening

• Dublin Airport expected to re-open at 4am tomorrow
• Waterford, Knock and Donegal to re-open at 6am tomorrow
• Galway airport will begin operations at 9am tomorrow
• Shannon Airport to be restricted from 5.30pm tonight until 1pm
• Cork Airport to close at midnight , re-open at 11am
• Kerry Airport remains open until at least midnight, will reopen at 3pm
• IAA to confirm lifting restrictions for tomorrow at 8.30pm

JanuarySnowstor

You have to laugh at the fact that Waterford can open at 6am and Cork at 11am. In the air they are about 10mins apart!

Iancar29

maquiladora wrote: »

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/myrdalsjokull.html

A few more earthquakes at Eyjafjallajökull within the last hour, and one close to the Katla caldera too.

OH! :eek:, thats not good at all at all!

Pangea

nacho libre wrote: »

it seems fairly clear from the article that barring an eruption of Katla there won't be any significant effect on the climate.

Thats because I didnt actually read it all, just did a clark kent job on it.
:DThanks for narrowing it down

maquiladora

Iancar29 wrote: »

OH! :eek:, thats not good at all at all!

Well its interesting that the quake there happened at virtually the exact same time as another two quakes at Eyjafjallajökull but I wouldn't be too worried about Katla yet, it was just one fairly weak quake, not like the swarm at Eyjafjallajökull.

roryc1

maquiladora wrote: »

Well its interesting that the quake there happened at virtually the exact same time as another two quakes at Eyjafjallajökull but I wouldn't be too worried about Katla yet, it was just one fairly weak quake, not like the swarm at Eyjafjallajökull.[/QUO


yeah but general activity seams quite low today, in comparson to the last few days anyway


http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/gosplott.html

maquiladora

roryc1 wrote: »

yeah but general activity seams quite low today, in comparson to the last few days anyway


http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/gosplott.html

Yeah the tremors have dropped right off on those graphs. It's the earthquakes that have increased. 29 in the last 3 days, before that there were hardly any in that area. The Icelandic Met Office think it means there is new magma rising up.

maquiladora

A bit of good news. The latest Met Office charts show the ash moving down south, looks like Ireland will be clear tomorrow afternoon for a while at least.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1273080600.png

roryc1

maquiladora wrote: »

Yeah the tremors have dropped right off on those graphs. It's the earthquakes that have increased. 29 in the last 3 days, before that there were hardly any in that area. The Icelandic Met Office think it means there is new magma rising up.

Looks like it might be building up pressure, pity the webcams are not working( or fog is to heavy) at the moment to see whats going on

Superfint

Am in Gdansk at the moment, ment to fly back to dublin tomarrow morning.
Not sure if i should pack up and head to the airport or what??!!!

Does anyone know will there be more updates on the Ryanair website tonight regarding tomarrows early flights?

I don't mind if am stuck here a little longer

Jumpy

maquiladora wrote: »

magma

On a side note, is it possible to predict ahead to know if the north easterlies will hold until wed next week?

maquiladora

The quake near Katla has been removed from the map now so it may have just been an error.

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/#view=map

roryc1

Looks like she is still going http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/


sorry cloud is now back

thetonynator

Superfint wrote: »

Am in Gdansk at the moment, ment to fly back to dublin tomarrow morning.
Not sure if i should pack up and head to the airport or what??!!!

Does anyone know will there be more updates on the Ryanair website tonight regarding tomarrows early flights?

I don't mind if am stuck here a little longer

Yeah, Dublin open from 4 in the morning.

maquiladora

roryc1 wrote: »

Looks like she is still going http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/


sorry cloud is now back

I got a brief glimpse. Plume looked very high...

Pangea

05 May 2010 - Volcanic Ash Advisory - Updated
Volcanic Ash update issued at 1900 hours on Wednesday May 5th Information from the Icelandic Meteorological Office concerning the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano today (Wednesday) is that there is increased earthquake activity beneath the volcano since Monday May 3rd. These earthquakes were at first very deep in the ground (about 23km) but then migrated upward. This indicated that “new” magma (molten lava etc) is rising from deep below the surface. It is anticipated that the eruption will continue

maquiladora

Pangea wrote: »

This indicated that “new” magma (molten lava etc) is rising from deep below the surface. It is anticipated that the eruption will continue

Yep, over on Science Blogs, a guy from Iceland that has his own site about earthquakes/volcanoes had this comment :

This means that the new magma is coming from a great depth and is pushing up fast and with great pressure. This is going to mean a lot of problems when it reaches the surface, that would the top crater in Eyjafjallajökull.

gally74

when youve got a problem and no one else will do,

Elmo5

The tremor activity has gone way down now!
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/gosplott.html

Have a feeling it's building up to another big spurt of activity...hmm.

Superfint

thetonynator wrote: »

Yeah, Dublin open from 4 in the morning.

Cheers mate, i rebooked anyhow as i paniced a bit!
Just my luck!

maquiladora

Update on activity
Eruption in Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland

Assessment - 05 May 2010 20:50

Increased seismicity suggests that new material is intruding from deep below Eyjafjallajökull and latest GPS-observations suggest inflation...

Oh great...

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/1884

maquiladora

No view on the webcams at the moment but this article says the ash plume has reached 31,000 feet tonight. :eek:

http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2010/05/05/gosmokkur_i_31_thusund_feta_haed/

je55ie

maquiladora wrote: »

No view on the webcams at the moment but this article says the ash plume has reached 31,000 feet tonight. :eek:

http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2010/05/05/gosmokkur_i_31_thusund_feta_haed/

is that bad?

rc28

jessie37 wrote: »

is that bad?

Yes, it means the ash plume is reaching between 9 and 10 kms into the atmosphere which I think is as high as it ever got in April, if not worse.

rebel girl 15

Changes in times for reopening!

Dublin, Waterford, Donegal and Cork (4am). Shannon, Galway and Knock (8am). Kerry (9am).

Travel updates

Pangea

Iceland volcano 'has become more explosive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8661937.stm

maquiladora

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1273100913.png

Confirms the plume reached 32,000 feet at least for a time yesterday. Some ash forecast between FL200/350 in the Atlantic.

maquiladora

There's some concern at the moment on ScienceBlogs at the amount of sulfur dioxide (SO2) that has suddenly been released in the last 36 hours from the Volcano.

http://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/OMI/OMISO2/iceland.html

I'm not an expert on this at all, but some of the comments from people there who seem to know more about this are :

The altitude is generally about the jet max-35,000. But the word YIKES comes to mind because that indicates this thing is really chugging from the belly of the beast. SO2 is dangerous as hell to the environment and it will cut the ozone and clouds like a knife, turn the salt water fresh in ref to the THC and that aint good

But, that SO2 in that concentration is big time bad ju-ju. Strongest concentration I have EVER seen and it has little dispersion.

higher SO2 and more explosive magma...this is not a very good sign is it? Could it be that a big mafic recharge is mixing the magma?

Jaw-drop. Wow!! that must have all been in the last 36 hours or so since the last time I checked. Looks like the eruption has REALLY ramped up.

Any climate changes possible? A pretty big SO2 column suddenly appeared for today...

Vigorous SO2 emissions into the stratosphere... Laki, anyone?


The bloody clouds are totally blocking the view of the ash plume. Very frustrating.

alibabba

this mornings screen grab, no appearance of any plume, calmed down it appears

maquiladora

alibabba wrote: »

this mornings screen grab, no appearance of any plume, calmed down it appears

Cloud is totally blocking the view, thats why you cannot see the plume. A few people got a brief glimpse of it earlier this morning and said the plume looked as high as it has ever been since the start of the eruption.

maquiladora

http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

Clouds starting to clear a little now. Look in the top left, plume looks very dark and high.

Edit. Clouded over again now. Took a screenshot, you can see the plume behind the cloud there, looks like its pushing right up with the top maybe even beyond the view of the camera.

maquiladora

9 earthquakes recorded already today. 33 in total since Tuesday evening. There's a lot of stuff happening under the surface for the past couple of days.

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/#view=map

alibabba

Im no volcanoe boffin, but something tells me this aint going to calm down in the coming weeks / months

Anyone else feel the same?

:eek:

maquiladora

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1273144184.png

Latest ash forecast. Plume max height of 30,000 ft. Ireland & UK in the clear but could be a chance of transatlantic disruption there by the look of it?

maquiladora

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Is there anywhere detailing the estimated depth of the tremors ?

There is a Map/Table tab there. Click on table.

maquiladora

Yep, sudden swarm closer to the surface in the last few minutes.

alibabba

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

Alot of activity is right

loads of activity alright, getting busy up there .....

nacho libre

Still no sign of Katla erupting which is a pity err i mean a good thing;)

maquiladora

nacho libre wrote: »

Still no sign of Katla erupting which is a pity err i mean a good thing;)

Well it depends. Not every eruption is going to be huge, Katla could erupt and it could turn out to be a smaller eruption than whats going on at the moment.

Anyway, shame about the clouds spoiling the view at the moment, but at least you can see from this sat view the height and size of the ash cloud now.

http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/RGB/ASH/ICELAND/index.htm

maquiladora

The latest from lcelandic news media .....

The volcano in Eyjafjallajökull glacier appears to be spewing as much ash as it did at the beginning of the eruption; a great plume of ash extended from the crater yesterday and last night. The phreatic eruption continues at significant force and explosive activity is increasing. The Civil Protection Department will discuss the situation today.

http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/english/

nacho libre

maquiladora wrote: »

Well it depends. Not every eruption is going to be huge, Katla could erupt and it could turn out to be a smaller eruption than whats going on at the moment.


http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/RGB/ASH/ICELAND/index.htm

yeah that's true it only has the potential to be far greater. If you were to believe the programmes on National Geographic we're all doomed if Katla erupts.

nacho libre

maquiladora wrote: »

The latest from lcelandic news media .....




http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/english/

by the way maquiladora you are fast becoming our resident volcanologist expert. i'm sure i speak for many when i say that your posts have been very informative and helpful since this thing started.

maquiladora

nacho libre wrote: »

yeah that's true it only has the potential to be far greater. If you were to believe the programmes on National Geographic we're all doomed if Katla erupts.

Planet Earth survived the 1918 eruption anyway. :pac: You are right though, it does have the potential to be pretty big. But who knows that surprises Eyjafjallajökull may yet have in store itself?

maquiladora

nacho libre wrote: »

by the way maquiladora you are fast becoming our resident volcanologist expert. i'm sure i speak for many when i say that your posts have been very informative and helpful since this thing started.

Not an expert at all I'm afraid! Just reading stuff and learning from other people that know more about this. It's interesting stuff though.

Waiting for the next update from the Iceland Met. It will appear on this page at some stage today, it should be interesting....

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/1884

pauldry

Ash cloud cud make its way over Ireland next Tuesday again and ground flights

Still working on my volcano link at http://www.icelandsvolcanoes.blogspot.com

Jumpy

pauldry wrote: »

Ash cloud cud make its way over Ireland next Tuesday again and ground flights

Still working on my volcano link at http://www.icelandsvolcanoes.blogspot.com

*cries* I am was flying on Wed

DominoDub

maquiladora wrote: »

Not an expert at all I'm afraid! Just reading stuff and learning from other people that know more about this. It's interesting stuff though.

Waiting for the next update from the Iceland Met. It will appear on this page at some stage today, it should be interesting....

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/1884

Other updates can be found at this link !
http://www2.norvol.hi.is/page/ies_Eyjafjallajokull_eruption

jambofc

thought this was funny......

kingbrilliant

Good one jambofc - It made me lol out loud (2bsure)