What Next for 2020? Volcanoes of Course!

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Iceland has seen bursts of escalating earthquake activity for awhile now but it doesn't really mean much until large scale earthquakes due to magmatic based movement start happening.

EDIT: I take that back a bit actually - I've not being paying attention more recently

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https://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/reykjanespeninsula/

Very high chance something big brewing there if those big ones are magmatic based.
 
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Jokester said:
Now that this Covid business is petering out, what’s the next calamity on the horizon?

Volcanoes of course!

Was speaking to somebody online today and they mentioned that they had 100 earthquakes today, a likely story!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...kjanes-peninsula-iceland-disruption-centuries

Hadn’t seen this but it looks like it’s old news and something big is brewing under Iceland!
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I am thinking the big guy upstairs is not at all happy with his creations....
 

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Was watching something a week or so back concerning the Phlegraean Fields around Naples. They discovered that the temperatures in the mud pits had increased significantly, way past 100C, the ground had risen by 3" and continues to rise at an ever increasing rate and the ancient underground water tunnels now contain water close to the boiling point. All of which led to the volcanologists saying 'when' it pops off, rather than 'if'.
 

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That area of Iceland is stunning. I'm glad 8 visited the area before it all blows up. I was actually thinking of going back to Iceland by the end of the year....they let you in if you pay for a test upon arrival and test negative. Once there'd I'd Road trip. And it's not hard to maintain social distancing when there are more sheep than humans.
 

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I experienced my first earthquake about 6 weeks ago when we were down near New Plymouth. There's a mini zoo in one of the parks and we were by the bird enclosure and they suddenly went mental - it was like a film, just the sheer noise and they all flew to the end where the cover is. A second later everything started shaking for about 5 seconds, pause, then again.

3/10, would not recommend.
 

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[FnG]magnolia said:
I experienced my first earthquake about 6 weeks ago when we were down near New Plymouth. There's a mini zoo in one of the parks and we were by the bird enclosure and they suddenly went mental - it was like a film, just the sheer noise and they all flew to the end where the cover is. A second later everything started shaking for about 5 seconds, pause, then again.

3/10, would not recommend.
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Pukekura park? I love it there, especially at Christmas.

I've yet to feel anything, though people have reported feeling something in the past in my area that I haven't felt.
 

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Minusorange said:
If it starts an eruption it's not going to help with Carbon emissions :(
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If there is a large eruption in Iceland (Or anywhere else really) a bit of CO2 is going to be the least of our problems...

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter

With particular reference to https://www.icelandreview.com/news/katla-eruption-blame-medieval-famine-europe/#:~:text=A volcanic eruption in Iceland in late 822,Büntgen, professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Cambridge.

Good luck trying to keep everybody alive with windmills and solar panels if any of that happens.
 

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Orionaut said:
If there is a large eruption in Iceland (Or anywhere else really) a bit of CO2 is going to be the least of our problems...

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter

With particular reference to https://www.icelandreview.com/news/katla-eruption-blame-medieval-famine-europe/#:~:text=A volcanic eruption in Iceland in late 822,Büntgen, professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Cambridge.

Good luck trying to keep everybody alive with windmills and solar panels if any of that happens.
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So... what you are saying is we all need to buy gas guzzling V8s and keep the heating on full blast with all the windows open to speed up global warming to counteract it? :p
 

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So... what you are saying is we all need to buy gas guzzling V8s and keep the heating on full blast with all the windows open to speed up global warming to counteract it? :p
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No,

But what we do need is sufficient electrical generating capacity to, at the very least, meet all requirements to survive a 1963 winter (Let alone a Volcanic one) that does NOT rely on

1) Wind
2) Sunlight
3) Imported fuels

As things stand. There are only two ways of achieving this.

We are closing down one of them (And mostly closed down the means of fuelling them) and we do not have anywhere near enough of the other!

:/
 
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