For instance, snow collapsing over it would give this effect. If it is broken, it might get fixed quite soon. I wonder if that pole is 3m high. Then the signal Albert pointed out could be when the IMO staff took it down before turning it off.
I think the mystery of the GRVC location is solved. Exciting stuff knowing that the volcano is highly pressurized now.
Any removal of pressure like water load in the huge geothermal lake can cause an eruption. Any removal of load can cause eruption. The volcano haves a large magma influx and is now even more pressurized than it was in The gas emissions are also large now.
Great to have that perspective for all of us who just have to use our imagination to visualize Grimsvotn. The vastness was something I was struck with watching this video. Anyone know if the green wave on the gri plot is normal? Reads on the time label upper Maybe its not an active webcamera?
Question for the board. Has this summer been relatively quiet seismically speaking in Iceland? Seems like it to me or is it that the usual areas are more quiet ie Myrdalsjokull and Vatanjokull. Grimsvotn is still recovering from its larger earthquake a few months ago. It will soon become more active again. Reykjanes is still quite active but nothing like 6 months ago.
Katla and Hekla do what they want: they decided to take a quiet year. And of course the north if Iceland has had quite some swarms.
At least when it comes to the smaller quakes. The larger ones still happen a few months apart. In fact, there will probably be another one or two around M4. A few smaller quakes may happen before or after that. Flight simulator haves arrived and its amazing!! And live weather with 3D volumetric clouds. It will be so fun to fly over Iceland! But There is too much trees in Iceland.
Autgen takes the moss and coverts it into trees that does not exist in Iceland. Icelands volcanoes like Heimeay and Katia arera may have extensive conifer forests in the game.. In Iceland there is b o extensive forests. Heimeay maybe covered in trees in the game. There used to be more forest in southern iceland, before people arrived.
The farming methods were quite destructive, and the worsening climate in the middle ages did not help. Of course, a 1 meter tall tree will look a lot like a shrub. During warmer times in Miocene Iceland was almost subtropical!
Between the lava layers in Westfjords the oldest parts of Iceland, there is coal from redwoods like trees. If global warming is allowed to continue: thats the future for Iceland.
I did not know that. But Iceland may not have enough soil to support redwoods. The soil is mostly thin and fragile and takes careful management. That may be a consequence of the ice age, when the glaciers scraped the surface clean down to the bedrock.
Sweden in parts is like that — bedrock surrounded by conifer forests. Its the ice age all the glaciations that removed most of Icelands rich soil. Iceland been without the ice for 8 million years before the ice age started.
So that was plenty of time for deep soils to form in the older parts of Iceland. I live in Sweden. Sweden and Finland is indeed scraped of soil by the glacials. Swedish terrain is very rocky and cliffy and boulders everywhere and stones and pebbles are everywhere. The soil is thin and mossy Rocks rounded. The type of bedrock comes into it too; granite and high-level metamorphics like gneiss with a lot of free quartz produce thin, acid soils whereas basalts decompose comparatively fast on a geological time scale.
Eye stunning MFS But all the tall conifer trees should not be there! I hopes they fix this very soon. But perhaps this is how Iceland will look like in year when the climate have warmed alot.
Im going to fly over Holuhraun arera too and see If I can find the s lava field in the game. Yes its a stunning game to explore the world! I flyed over Iceland and Italy volcanoes today and its absolutley eyestunning what Microsoft have created for us simmers. The game is so large that its streams its data from servers so your computer does not have to render it! No computer can handle souch data for itself.
I can agree that Iceland haves way too much conifer forest in the game. Katla Volcano slopes is full of spurce and pines that should not be there in real life.
But many volcanoes in the game match the real world version very well. Microsoft haves to fix Icelands scenery very soon as the game runns on massive servers. This is the most incredible game world that I have ever experienced. A powerful game computer is still recommended. But just as Watcher and Jesper have told: there is alot of tall boreal forest in Iceland arera in the game, that does not exist in real life there. The autogen feels like it needs to place whole conifer forests at Iceland lowlands.
Iceland indeed looks like british columbia or south norway in the game. I have not checked If s Holuhraun lava field is modelled yet in the world map. Microsoft haves to remove these autogen trees from Iceland in MFS But its an incredible game anyway! Flying over Heimeay soon. Seems like the right area for it. Oooh, a perfectly circular crater 20k in diameter. Could also be an impact crater I guess, I wonder what the geologic map says? Not that anyone ever reads the last post to an old thread!
New post is up! Where do you think the next BIG eruption will come from? I am of the opinion it is a curved fault at the top, together with unrelated land-use features which give the appearance of a circle. I doubt there is any more to it than that. Like this: Like Loading Related posts. Yes, it was relatively cool. Later lava was a bit hotter. They shipped furniture and possessions to the mainland. They put iron plates on windows facing the volcano to prevent lava fires.
They removed tons of ash from roofs to prevent collapse. Work crews built barriers and pumped sea water onto the lava to cool it, but succeeded only partly in halting its flow, which eventually covered farms, meadows and the northeastern part of town. Meanwhile, a massive and separate pumping operation was mounted, helped by powerful pumps flown in from the United States, to cool the torrent of lava that was pouring into the sea and threatening to block the harbor. All Sections. About Us.
B2B Publishing. The ash-covered town of Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, on July 24, Buried Homes in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, after the eruption of Eldfell. Buried town streets after the eruption of Eldfell volcano on the island of Heimaey. An ash-buried cemetery in Vestmannaeyjar, after the eruption of Eldfell volcano on the island of Heimaey.
Ash-buried homes in Vestmannaeyjar, after the eruption of Eldfell volcano. A structure destroyed by the eruption, in Heimaey, on July 24, Vestmannaeyjar, covered with volcanic ash from the recent eruption, in An ash-covered arch in the town of Vetmannaeyjar, after the eruption, in A man shovels ash from the roof of a building in Vestmannaeyjar in this photo.
Many islanders who had lost their homes in the eruption decided not to return, but in their place a large group of new people arrived on the island, full of energy and an interest in participating in rebuilding the town. After the eruption, the landscape was drastically changed. Lava covered the oldest part of the town and the size of the island had increased by more than two square kilometers.
The harbor entrance barely escaped being blocked due to the lava flow, but in the end was even more protected. The eruption also provided unlimited landfill materials of which there had been a shortage before. And last but not least, for several years heat from the lava was harnessed and used to heat the homes in the town, which led to an eventual unified system of heating on the island.
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