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So a big Volcano in Iceland has started stirring:

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  • #52
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Pwindedd wrote: »
    Link to quite informative and reasoned thread on the Icelandic Volcanic region here

    But if it's drama, scaremongering and general fcukwitery your after. Please continue.
    Scaremongering ?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8624791.stm
    The noxious fog travelled down through Norway, Germany, France and across to Britain, causing panic when farm labourers began dropping like flies. People at this time had no idea where the fog had come from or that sulphur dioxide was mixing with water vapour in the lungs to choke victims. Research into parish records has led to estimates of more than 20,000 deaths in Britain alone during the summer of 1783.
    ...
    Toxic gases poisoned the plants and vegetation, which in turn killed the livestock. Eight of every ten sheep are thought to have died, while half of all the cattle and horses perished. The extreme winters that followed - caused by the sulphuric gases - ensured that a fifth of the country's population died, historians estimate.


  • #53
    chuckyarelaw
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Scaremongering ?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8624791.stm

    Aye, we're fooked.


  • #54
    SpaceTime
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    Amazingly enough the Laki eruption is possibly what caused the French peasants' frustration with the monarchy to finally reach its tipping point and brought about the first modern republic!


  • #55
    kneemos
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    SpaceTime wrote: »
    Amazingly enough the Laki eruption is possibly what caused the French peasants' frustration with the monarchy to finally reach its tipping point and brought about the first modern republic!

    Mmmm toast.


  • #56
    SpaceTime
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Mmmm toast.

    Well Marie Antoinette did love a nice bit of toasted cake.


  • #57
    OneArt
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    comongethappy wrote: »
    Its just like what the old gypsy woman said.

    Danger zone.


  • #58
    SpaceTime
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    It's possible that this will just result serious flooding in a very unpopulated area of Iceland and not much else.

    We won't know for a few days how much magna is bubbling up and how much glacial melt water's getting in and if it can puncture to glacier to make a vent directly into the atmosphere.

    Basically the last one was a steam jet full of atomised rock. Kind of like an enormous aerosol full of bits of sand, rock and lots of sulphur compounds.

    That's what makes these volcanoes so problematic for aviation. They're capable of atomising vast amounts of rock due to all the available meltwater.


  • #59
    Chavways
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    Egginacup wrote: »
    Failed some exams?
    Stay in Frisco, the fault line there is about to crack.

    Nope didn't fail anything thank God. Seems like I'm caught in between 2 disaster zones!


  • #60
    SpaceTime
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    The Icelandic Met Office has a lot more exciting stuff to put into their forecasts than Met Éireann
    So far today, 24 August, three earthquakes of or around 5 in magnitude have occurred on the rim of the Bárðarbunga caldera:

    00:09 UTC: magnitude 5.3
    05:33 UTC: magnitude 5.3
    20:39 UTC: magnitude 5.0
    Intense earthquake activity continues, although there is presently no sign of volcanic tremor.

    http://en.vedur.is/#tab=skjalftar


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