What Next for 2020? Volcanoes of Course!

I said this to someone as well that they thought Covid was scary. Well most people have no clue and i doubt the Goverment has a plan but we will have a big Iceland eruption. And because of the snow it means the temperature difference between magma and snow fractures it over and over into very fine ash.


This will mean no daylight for up to 6 months if it was a big one and that drifted slowly over the UK and Northern Europe the whole crop for that year will be destroyed. Not to mention if it rains either it poisons all the water too and kills a lot of stuff. And it will eventually happen the only if is where the ash clouds go and when the eruption happens.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/worl...pews-ash-three-miles-into-the-air/ar-BB17M3nk

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Mount Sinabung awakens with a 30,000ft high plume
 
Orionaut said:
1963 was just a couple of months of unseasonably cold weather.

There were concerns even then that the channel might freeze over completely.

A Volcanic winter would be far colder and last a lot longer. Well sub-zero and lasting years even.
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Had to google a for a bit of history on the 1963 winter (wasn't around then).

Seems incredible that the UK experienced such a bitter winter, and nothing has come anywhere near close in the last 3 decades.
 
Semple said:
Had to google a for a bit of history on the 1963 winter (wasn't around then).

Seems incredible that the UK experienced such a bitter winter, and nothing has come anywhere near close in the last 3 decades.
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Winter 2010/11 was colder here in Scotland - we had snow on the ground from December all the way through to April. I think it was the coldest winter on record (over 100 years).
 
Jokester said:
Semple said:
Had to google a for a bit of history on the 1963 winter (wasn't around then).

Seems incredible that the UK England experienced such a bitter winter, and nothing has come anywhere near close in the last 3 decades.
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Winter 2010/11 was colder here in Scotland - we had snow on the ground from December all the way through to April. I think it was the coldest winter on record (over 100 years).
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Corrected :p
 
Minusorange said:

Yikes that's a fair size quake
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We've had 4 severe ones in the last 12 hours, thankfully all offshore, a lot of people felt the 7.1 at 2.27am, I didn't as I was fast asleep, which I guess is a blessing, I am in an area that quite a few felt it. That was east of Te Aroha (Near Napier), there have been many aftershocks too so far. The other three strong / severe (7.4/ 8.1 and 6.2) quakes were off the Kermadec islands a few hundred km off the NE coast of NZ. I never felt any of those either, and it seems like we may have got away with any tsunami threat. However, it is extremely rare to get even 2 strong quakes this close together, let alone 4! We are still under a tsunami warning atm though. I live about 10 metres away from the sea :o :D

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Hopefully it doesn't happen but I hope you have a plan if it does :s

The animations of the activity is pretty nuts.

EDIT: Looks like you'd be reasonably safe unless it was pretty extreme - doesn't look like there is the kind of terrain there to funnel it in increasing the height either which is what hurt a lot of Japanese parts.
 
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Rroff said:
Hopefully it doesn't happen but I hope you have a plan if it does :s

The animations of the activity is pretty nuts.

EDIT: Looks like you'd be reasonably safe unless it was pretty extreme - doesn't look like there is the kind of terrain there to funnel it in increasing the height either which is what hurt a lot of Japanese parts.
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The cliff looks quite high and given how close to the edge the houses are I'd guess that the cliff is very robust. Without the geographical funnel you refer to, I wouldn't be too concerned if I was there.

The highest recorded tsunami was nearly 600 metres, but that was with perfect geographical tunneling (and a vast landslide causing a hugely powerful tsunami). Luckily it was in a very remote part of Alaska, nobody was there and nothing was built there. There were eyewitnesses, but they were in a boat miles out to sea so they weren't affected much. The height was determined by height to which vegetation and soil had been scoured off by the tsunami. 600 metres. Metres. Bloody hell!

EDIT: My memory was a bit off. It was "only" 524 metres. Lituya Bay, 1958.
 
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