The Iceland Volcano Thread

maquiladora

Not the best visibilty yet today, but the plume still looks dark, large and and tall. You can see it extending up beyond the frame.

pauldry

Doesnt seem to be dying at all. Moody fecker

DominoDub

I see we got some fresh snow fall on today's webcam

http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en

alibabba

Ya cant kill a good thing!

maquiladora

Check out this webcam from Vestmannaeyjar. Wind blowing ash down over that community at the moment :

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jambofc

maquiladora wrote: »

Check out this webcam from Vestmannaeyjar. Wind blowing ash down over that community at the moment :

cant help but feel sorry for them,everyone else moaning because there flight has been cancelled or delayed and these poor people living in those conditions.

sunbabe08

so whats the story volcano and weather wise for the next couple of days, i've been in the middle of no where in england south west country for several days with internet or t.v so havent gotta clue.

maquiladora

Plume still looks tall and fairly explosive on the Mulakot cam :

http://www.mulakot.net/images/myndavelar/14flugv.jpg

krankykitty

Some cool pics and videos of our Eyja..







http://www.mrietze.com/iceland10-2.htm

maquiladora

Check out the vids on that page above, they have audio, you can hear what the roar of the volcano sounds like up close.

maquiladora

Wow. Look at that plume...

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

Webmonkey

That's crazy looking :eek:

Deep Easterly

maquiladora wrote: »

Wow. Look at that plume...

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

Pretty lakes looking alright at the moment:



Doesn't it look like a face?

maquiladora

Clouds have cleared a bit now...

maquiladora

New swarm of eight earthquakes within the last few mins, most of them very shallow including one at just 0.2 km.

Edit : 10 quakes now, swarm still ongoing.

kevin12345

maquiladora wrote: »

New swarm of eight earthquakes within the last few mins, most of them very shallow including one at just 0.2 km.

Edit : 10 quakes now, swarm still ongoing.

Do you have the site where you can see the earthquake showing up? Thanks

maquiladora

kevin12345 wrote: »

Do you have the site where you can see the earthquake showing up? Thanks

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/

You can see them on the map as red dots running in a roughly north/south line.

kevin12345

maquiladora wrote: »

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/

You can see them on the map as red dots running in a roughly north/south line.

Thanks

maquiladora

2 more, its still going, deep this time.

maquiladora

14 quakes now, interesting mix of deep and shallow and very interesting linear pattern.

Edit : 17 now, also it looks like they have been manually checked and depths have been changed, they are almost all very deep.

Rougies

maquiladora wrote: »

14 quakes now, interesting mix of deep and shallow and very interesting linear pattern.

Edit : 17 now, also it looks like they have been manually checked and depths have been changed, they are almost all very deep.

:eek: the icelandics are a tough bunch

maquiladora

Rougies wrote: »

:eek: the icelandics are a tough bunch

:pac:

21 quakes now.

Rougies

maquiladora wrote: »

:pac:

21 quakes now.

Interesting linear pattern alright! What's the next volcano north on that line I wonder? Looks like the plates are ripping apart.
Katla seems to be sleeping soundly through all of this so far.

Edit... Rumour has it Hekla can be a bitch when she wakes up.

maquiladora

Nasty looking plume...

maquiladora

Rougies wrote: »

Interesting linear pattern alright! What's the next volcano north on that line I wonder?

Tindfjallajökull.

What does this mean for flights?

Rougies

Make that 22.
Quality only 47.47 though? Any Idea what that means?

maquiladora

26 quakes now...some major magma movement going on down there.

Rougies

26 earthquakes since midnight :eek:

maquiladora

Great view of the ash blowing in the wind

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

drymartini

4.26 - May 15 2010

drymartini

4.41 - 15 May 2010

dak

Rougies wrote: »

26 earthquakes since midnight :eek:

All below 3 though !

maquiladora

dak wrote: »

All below 3 though !

These type of deep, magma related swarms are usually around 1-2.5

maquiladora

Some danger of air travel disruption again :

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1273922700.png

Villain

Sunday Lunch time until Tuesday looks very bad on recent charts, the UK met office have 5 day Ash charts out now. All updated charts are updated on http://www.carlowweather.com/wxwarning.php now

sunbabe08

noooooooooooo, as much as i love my aunt i need to come home and that ash cloud will be sitting right over cork:eek:

bamboozle

Villain wrote: »

Sunday Lunch time until Tuesday looks very bad on recent charts, the UK met office have 5 day Ash charts out now. All updated charts are updated on http://www.carlowweather.com/wxwarning.php now

wonder how accurate the 5 days charts are, hope they're good cause i've some important flights to plan over the next few weeks.

thetonynator

Sligo, Knock and Donegal closed from 7am tomorrow, and all the rest open until at least 1p.m. Review at 9.30am tomorrow..


:mad: :mad:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0515/travel.html

krankykitty

I've been looking at the webcams for weeks but because of my normal routine have never seen fire coming out of Eyja.. Just watching some now

drymartini

03.05 - May 16 2010

drymartini

05.30 - 16 May 2010

maquiladora

Dublin airport closing at 7pm till 9am at the earliest. But the ash forecast looks good beyond tomorrow : http://transport.nilu.no/browser/fpv?fpp=conccol_VO_1_

Looks like we might not get a decent view of the volcano on the webcams till tomorrow afternoon due to cloud cover.

pauldry

yeah was trying look but cant see anything. This thing is here for the long term according to bloke on marians show on radio 1 this morning. some vulcanoligist. didnt catch his name as was only waking up

Oscar Bravo

From the IAA.These latest restrictions have been enforced as extensive observations of the drift of the ash cloud, the volcano's activity and the latest weather forecasts indicate an increased quantity of ash over Irish airspace.Just out of interest,did the IAA carry out test flights?

Oscar Bravo

To answer my own question it seems the IAA did carry out 2 test flights today,one to the South East and one to the North West,quite a bit of ash found in filters attached to the plane that went to the North West.

jambofc

programme on discovery now sky ch520 about Eyja

MayoForSam

Yeah, just watching this now, interesting to hear about the Kamchatka peninsula volcanos being very active at the moment. Anyone taking bets on the location of the next supervolcano?

Still can't understand why the engine/aircraft manufacturers/civil authorities never carried out any tests previous to this on an engine test bed with simulated ash densities to determine what really is the safe level at which aircraft can fly through an ash cloud. It's just guesswork at the moment.

One interesting tidbit - the correct pronunciation of Eyjafjallajokull is something like this: Aye-ya-fat-la-ya-fud-la.

Shamanic

how we looking for tueday folks?
Due to fly out to Madrid at 1pm, but need to cancel the hotel tonight if im not going in order to avoid fees for cancelling.
Also, due back saturday and HAVE to be in work on sunday, is it worth the risk or should i cancel and take holidays in ireland?

Rougies

MayoForSam wrote: »

Still can't understand why the engine/aircraft manufacturers/civil authorities never carried out any tests previous to this on an engine test bed with simulated ash densities to determine what really is the safe level at which aircraft can fly through an ash cloud. It's just guesswork at the moment.

I reckon it's because of the different chemical makeup/particle size/shape etc. ejected by different volcanoes so they can't reliably test engines until they are actually in the ash cloud of the volcano in question or maybe use a sample of the ash on a test bed.

Eyja's ash is particularly dangerous to aircraft engines because it's basically made up of tiny shards of glass.