[Island Chris]

Good video, but you have to watch a 30 s commercial:

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/...s.cnn.html

I have not bothered to check whether this fissure eruption is where there have been M5+ quakes the last week.

Chris

[Island Chris]

The story is worth a look. Unclear to me from this what the relation between the fissure eruption and the volcano under 850 m of ice. Seems there are 2 volcanoes acting up in different places (although that is not how it is worded)?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/se...-fountains

Chris

[Skywise]

(09-20-2014, 09:52 PM)Island Chris Wrote: Unclear to me from this what the relation between the fissure eruption and the volcano under 850 m of ice. Seems there are 2 volcanoes acting up in different places (although that is not how it is worded)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1r%C3%B0arbunga

Seems the fissure is ejecting lava that was building under the caldera.

Brian

[Island Chris]

Yikes, looked at your link. Past eruption volumes of tens of km; similar to Krakatau (except probably basalt more than explosion. Would be cool to see current eruption in person.

Chris

[Island Chris]

The link is pretty wild:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/22...tail=email#

Scroll down to the video of flying over the lava flows and vents by helicopter.

Yikes!
Chris

[Skywise]

(09-24-2014, 05:42 PM)Island Chris Wrote: The link is pretty wild:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/22...tail=email#

Scroll down to the video of flying over the lava flows and vents by helicopter.

Yikes!
Chris

Direct link to video on YouTube:





My first thought was wondering what they were flying. I just hope it was a twin engine heli in case of and engine out situation. No place to safely land. (I flight sim a lot, including helis).

Then seeing the lava fountain.... totally surreal. Looked like something from a disaster movie. Almost looks fake because of the sheer scale of the eruption.

Brian

[Island Chris]

Don't feel like working (Sunday morning) so I went to look for recent video of the eruption. The link is "live", so does not get more recent than that. There is also a GPS elevation plot and an earthquake plot, presumably live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7W9DLxLh8g

Chris

[Island Chris]

More about the drone than the eruption, but some of you, or at least Brian, may be interested:

http://icelandreview.com/news/2014/10/01...ion-videos

Chris

[Island Chris]

There have been continuing M5.0 and smaller quakes in the area of the Baroarbunga eruption in Iceland, so I Googled what is going on.

The link to Scientific American article is interesting about gas emissions.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...cientists/

Chris