Eruption in Iceland

[TSwizzle]

It's all kicking off in Iceland;

After several tense days of earthquake swarms, people living on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula are in limbo as they wait to see whether a surging blob of magma about half a mile (nearly a kilometer) beneath their feet will gently quiet down—or explode in a damaging volcanic eruption. More than 3,000 people been evacuated from the town of Grindavík in southwestern Iceland, which has been damaged by days of relentless quakes. Some of these have opened fissures in the landscape, including across roads. Seismic activity had quieted as of November 14, geoscientists say, but it’s hard to tell whether this is a lasting trend or the calm before the storm. Previous eruptions in the region had shown patterns of quiet just before the lava started flowing. “We don’t know yet if [the volcano] will erupt,” says Vincent Drouin, a staff scientist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office

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As a veteran of Mt. Pinatubo (w/Typhoon Yunya overlay), I strongly recommend not waiting around to find out.

 

[TSwizzle]

Interesting developments in Iceland

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Pretty spectacular

 

[steve_bank]

Ya seen one hole in the ground and ya seen them all.

I got a look at St Helens from a road from a distance and that is a big hole carved out of the mountain. You have to see it to get the scale.

Flying over St Helens it looks like an atomic bomb blast.