What Next for 2020? Volcanoes of Course!

Bit of a thread bump, some fairly substantial activity under Reykjanes in Iceland with potential for a sizeable eruption (unlikely to be an explosive type).
 
DB_SamX said:
Link?

@Helios1234p and I went to see the 2021 eruption close up after hiking up the volcano, and we like to keep up with new activity.
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Don't have a good link, seen lots of snippets of information after several large earthquakes in the last few hours.

EDIT: Brief summary here https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news though not updated with the activity over night.
 
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Rroff said:
Bit of a thread bump, some fairly substantial activity under Reykjanes in Iceland with potential for a sizeable eruption (unlikely to be an explosive type).
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I'm here now. Kind of hard to relax in the Blue Lagoon with that in the back of my mind.
 
That ain't good (vedur.is):

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All the stars are 3+ magnitude, though it does/can release tension.

Dunno if clickbait but a lot of YT channels covering it are talking about an explosive eruption anytime in the next few days.

While it isn't exactly how earthquakes "work", I wouldn't be surprised if that level of activity doesn't have a wider regional impact (north Atlantic) potentially causing faults which might be largely dormant to produce events in the next little while.
 
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Ah if it opens up in shallow water (one end of the dyke now extends into the ocean) it has potential for explosive eruptions. There is likely going to be very large earthquakes located at one or both extents of the dyke in the next few days - in excess of 6, possibly even 7, possible. If it does erupt it'll likely affect a large region and not be spectator/tourist friendly so to speak like the previous one(s) were.
 
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I see that Campi Flegrei, in Italy is on the move again. Now THAT is a volcano!

3450 Earthquakes this year, which is a lot more than normal, and higher intensity too.

Might be a good idea to swap that holiday in Naples to somewhere like Durness.
 
Volcanoes are rather terrifyingly cool. The entire surface of a planet can wipe away all evidence of any life through volcanism alone. Magma outflows bury everything in its path and as the tectonic plates move about over time, all the buried rubble gets buried even deeper for any remnants that might remain.All evidence of our existence would be wiped clean off the surface in cosmically quick time, solar storms would destroy orbiting appliances which would succumb to orbital decay and burn up in the atmosphere as gravity pulls them back to Earth.

Quite remarkable how fragile life actually is and all it takes to wipe any sign of its existence is natural geology whether kick started via magma pressure buildup, plate movements or an asteroid impact event doesn't really matter. All have happened more than once on Earth and will happen again in the future.

Neat!
 
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mrk said:
Volcanoes are rather terrifyingly cool. The entire surface of a planet can wipe away all evidence of any life through volcanism alone. Magma outflows bury everything in its path and as the tectonic plates move about over time, all the buried rubble gets buried even deeper for any remnants that might remain.All evidence of our existence would be wiped clean off the surface in cosmically quick time, solar storms would destroy orbiting appliances which would succumb to orbital decay and burn up in the atmosphere as gravity pulls them back to Earth.

Quite remarkable how fragile life actually is and all it takes to wipe any sign of its existence is natural geology whether kick started via magma pressure buildup, plate movements or an asteroid impact event doesn't really matter. All have happened more than once on Earth and will happen again in the future.

Neat!
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Thanks for the cheerful message. :p
 
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