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The YouTube algorithm sent me to a random geologist guy talking about a shit ton of seismic activity over the last day in Iceland.  Apparently the earthquakes are getting stronger and have shifted location which according to said geology dude is indicative of magma movement.  Iceland is known for some pretty bad ass volcanic eruptions and seems like they may be getting ready to pop off another one.

Link to the earthquake tracker that he's using early in the video:

https://vafri.is/quake/#close

 

 

Apparently there is also fairly large concern for an area in Italy.  

Also happening in Naples Italy but not Mt Vesuvius, the other side of Naples is a huge caldera that has been having hundreds of earthquakes a week.

Who had "Iceland mega volcano erupts causing 4 years of darkness, literally and figuratively", on their World is Ending Bingo Card?

3 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

quakes in real time

https://vafri.is/quake/

far right menu item click "english"

click "settings"

un-check "show unreviewed quakes" and that reduces the noise to show only the most current action

Really cool site.  So is that red heat spot bad?

Also, it would seem they are happening about everything 30 seconds, sort of like contractions.  

scrollzoom in to southwest iceland to fill your screen and this adds even more clarity

that town is about 2km tops from epicenter of this puppy

bye bye

Is this going to be like the one 10 years ago or so that fucked up flights from here to Europe for a couple of weeks?

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1 hour ago, Laxtonto said:

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God I miss the Taco Bell enchirito.

Feels so unreal, watching those live cams. Any second a volcano could erupt half a world away… Drinking ice cold vodka and empathizing with the citizens of Grindavik, and bugging.

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That’s what they get for eating that disgusting Hákarl shit. Even God thinks it’s gross and should be nuked from orbit. 

1 hour ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Always thankful to live on a passive margin.

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Closer version of the caldera cam @Hagbard Celine posted. You can see smoke and flames. 

 

Greenland is full of ice, and Iceland is very nice

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3 hours ago, troph said:

Man our existence is so fucking tenuous and that’s on a fairly hospitable planet. Jesus.

Sir, might i interest you in the geological timescale ?

Friendly reminder that the Richter scale is logarithmic, so each increasing integer magnitude is 10x worse than the previous. 

Friendly reminder that the Richter scale is logarithmic, so each increasing integer magnitude is 10x worse than the previous. 

You leave Andy Richter outta this.
31 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Friendly reminder that the Richter scale is logarithmic, so each increasing integer magnitude is 10x worse than the previous. 

Calculating Figure It Out GIF

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Man…that’s ain’t that far from Reykjavik.

Have they considered throwing Björk in the volcano to appease the gods?

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Man…that’s ain’t that far from Reykjavik.

No, it isn't very far. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/11/10/reykjanes-iceland-volcano-earthquakes-fagradalsfjall/

 

Evacuations underway in Iceland as possible volcanic eruption looms

Updated November 10, 2023 at 7:50 p.m. EST|Published November 10, 2023 at 4:51 p.m. EST
 
People are illuminated by the glow of a lava field in March 2021 on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. (Sophia Groves/Getty Images)

A barrage of hundreds of earthquakes, including two exceeding a magnitude of 5.0 and at least seven topping 4.5, rattled Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Friday. The seismic swarm suggests the eruption of an area volcano in the hours or day ahead and has prompted the Icelandic Meteorological Office to declare a Civil Protection Emergency Level.

 
 
 

The Fagradalsfjall volcano is in Iceland’s southern peninsula region, about 25 miles southwest of Reykjavik, the country’s capital. A number of tremors have shaken the city, and the famed Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in Grindavik has been closed. It was initially unclear whether Fagradalsfjall was responsible for the increased seismic activity or whether an eruption was brewing elsewhere within the Reykjanes volcanic system.

Shortly before midnight local time, all of Grindavik was asked to evacuate. At 11:30 p.m. local time, the Meteorological Office warned that volcanic fissures could open near or within the town.

 
 

“Based on how the seismic activity has evolved since 6 PM today, along with results from GPS measurements, there is a likelihood that a magma intrusion has extended beneath Grindavík,” the office wrote.

Experts believe that a magmatic dike may have formed directly below the town. Dikes are sheets of magma that flow through existing fractures in rock or generate a new crack. The largest volcanoes may contain hundreds of dikes.

A Code Orange — or a Level 3 out of 4 on the universal ground-based volcano alerting scale — has been declared, raising concerns at Keflavik International Airport, which sits just northwest of the seismically active region.

 

The region has experienced intermittent eruptions since 2021, yet the incipient eruption will probably be markedly more intense.

“The amount of magma involved is significantly more than what was observed in the largest magma intrusions associated with the eruptions at Fagradalsfjall,” the Meteorological Office said.

 
People relax in 2016 in the Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa in Grindavik that is Iceland's most visited attraction. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

The office had warned Friday afternoon that earthquakes were located about two miles northeast of Grindavik, with the fault slips occurring about two to three miles below the ground. Earthquakes crept toward the community of 3,300 around sunset.

 

“The seismic activity has moved south towards Grindavík,” the Meteorological Office said.

 

“The signs that can be seen now … are similar to those seen on the eve of the first eruption at Fagradalsfjall in 2021, and are very similar to the seismic activity that was measured about a month before that eruption,” the office had cautioned in an earlier update. It had previously estimated that it would take several days for magma to reach the surface and the imminent eruption to begin.

Already, the quaking has ruptured roadways. It appears that up to three inches of uplift, or vertical movement of the ground, has occurred near the volcano.

 

A total of 295 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater had been detected in the previous 72 hours, with upward of 90 percent of those occurring in the past day.

 
A map of recent earthquakes in Iceland. (Iceland Meteorological Office)

While Iceland is tectonically and volcanically active, the region around the Fagradalsfjall volcano had lain dormant for over 6,300 years until December 2019. That’s when a flurry of earthquakes, including two that reached magnitude 5.6, rattled the peninsula. Then on Feb. 4, 2021, a magnitude-5.7 earthquake caused minor damage to homes. Six weeks later, on March 19, the volcano erupted, with a roughly 2,000-foot-long fissure spewing lava.

 
 

The fissure was later named Geldingadalsgos, representing a possible new shield volcano — a broad volcano with gently sloping sides — and it attracted widespread tourism. Several other fissures opened in April, but only one remained active in May 2021. Another eruption from a separate fissure of Fagradalsfjall took place on Aug. 3, 2022.

Then this past summer, in early July, a new eruption began near Litli-Hrutur, also part of the Fagradalsfjall volcano. It was about 10 times as big as the first two eruptions. It diminished by Aug. 5.

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6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Man…that’s ain’t that far from Reykjavik.

And like 15 miles as the crow flies from the international airport.

Someone should protest the seismic activity. 

17 minutes ago, Chooky said:

Someone should protest the seismic activity. 

I for one, wish there was a good guy with a gun present to put a stop to this.  

7 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

I for one, wish there was a good guy with a gun present to put a stop to this.  

Shooting a volcano is definitely a solution. Do you think an earthquake would keep that same energy with my 1911 pointed in its face? 

2 minutes ago, Chooky said:

Shooting a volcano is definitely a solution. Do you think an earthquake would keep that same energy with my 1911 pointed in its face? 

Yes

What about a virgin? Does she have to be good looking or do volcanoes not care?

3 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Yes

What about the constitution? 

2 minutes ago, Bevo said:

What about a virgin? Does she have to be good looking or do volcanoes not care?

We're not gonna just start tossing elon Musk enthusiasts into volcanoes.

3 hours ago, Bevo said:

What about a virgin? Does she have to be good looking or do volcanoes not care?

Everyone there is good looking at a minimum over there.  

Edited by fattyflattie

4 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Everyone there is good looking at a minimum over there.  

I wouldn't go that far but there are lots of pretty women there. Half the store workers were from the Czech Republic it seemed.

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