Goodbye Euro: Katla might blow its top at any time
Jul 16, 2011 0:54:38 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Jul 16, 2011 0:54:38 GMT -5
Goodbye Euro: Katla might blow its top at any time
The Icelandic volcano Katla is 10 times more powerful than the hot mountain that stopped air-traffic in Europe last year.
A sleeping beauty, the Icelandic volcano Katla.
Katla last erupted in 1918. It is said to be 10 times more powerful than Eyjafjoell. who erupted last year.
Now, Katla is heating up. The sleeping volcano is sending a wall of meltwater down the glacier, bearing ice chunks the size of houses, and blanketing southern Iceland in thick ash.
And according to experts, Katla is overdue for a powerful blast.
The seismometres had meanwhile gone crazy at the time the so-called river-run occurred, and Ilyinskaya hinted that the activity at Katla may actually have caused sensors around the Hekla volcano, about 110 kilometres (70 miles) east of Reykjavik, to indicate in recent days an eruption there could be imminent.
“It’s not unlikely that the activity we saw there was actually caused by the Katla glacier. They’re pretty close,” she said, adding that measurements around both volcanoes now seemed calm.
ivarfjeld.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/godbye-euro-katla-might-blow-its-top-at-any-time/
The Icelandic volcano Katla is 10 times more powerful than the hot mountain that stopped air-traffic in Europe last year.
A sleeping beauty, the Icelandic volcano Katla.
Katla last erupted in 1918. It is said to be 10 times more powerful than Eyjafjoell. who erupted last year.
Now, Katla is heating up. The sleeping volcano is sending a wall of meltwater down the glacier, bearing ice chunks the size of houses, and blanketing southern Iceland in thick ash.
And according to experts, Katla is overdue for a powerful blast.
The seismometres had meanwhile gone crazy at the time the so-called river-run occurred, and Ilyinskaya hinted that the activity at Katla may actually have caused sensors around the Hekla volcano, about 110 kilometres (70 miles) east of Reykjavik, to indicate in recent days an eruption there could be imminent.
“It’s not unlikely that the activity we saw there was actually caused by the Katla glacier. They’re pretty close,” she said, adding that measurements around both volcanoes now seemed calm.
ivarfjeld.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/godbye-euro-katla-might-blow-its-top-at-any-time/
