Volcano watch 2010

reply to post by berkeleygal


Sorry, but we are having lovely weather here in the west of Ireland and if the weather in Iceland changes so will ours so - keep up the clouds please, we don't want the rain back just yet.

Looking at the pics posted though it does not seem to be so black, or am I imagining that? Love the 'angry face'

Looks like the tremors have calmed down quite a lot and are now back to or under the first eruption level.

[edit on 16/4/2010 by PuterMan]

reply to post by vortexcmd

Alaska's Redoubt volcano stops shaking
by The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska -

The swarm of small shallow earthquakes that began April 5 at the Redoubt volcano has ended, and the shaking returned to background levels. The Alaska Volcano Observatory lowered the aviation code Monday from yellow to green. Eruptions from the 10,197-foot volcano early last year disrupted air travel, dusted Anchorage with ash and sent a mudflow that partially flooded the Drift River Oil Terminal.

newsminer.com...

its snowing here in Voss

lol thanks iceland .

Going thru todays Vodafone images, found this guy... Looks like he's posing for GQ, or Volcano Daily News


[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/47cb513a53e5.jpg[/atsimg]

I will be posting first light images soon. meaning now

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/6bcb5f714521.jpg[/atsimg]

[edit on 16-4-2010 by berkeleygal]

Good Morning volcano watchers.

The wind direction in Iceland has changed from Eastly to Southerly. (I could tell this morning as our weather has changed).

The ash plume is now headed for Ireland!

This is the EUMETSTAT image for 0900 hrs UTC

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/c217b88aface.jpg[/atsimg]

If you would like the animation of this from 0100 UTC to 0900 UTC there are two versions available. both named ash-iceland-20100417_0100-0900

One is a GIF file that repeats and is 3,657 KB (3.57 MB) and the other is an MPG and is 1,537 KB (1.5 MB)

You can download either or both from Iceland images 4Shared

(I have moved these into the April_17 folder)

[edit on 17/4/2010 by PuterMan]

good morning

I may as well go to bed, 3:40 am here

mila and vfon cams have so much traffic, cant get on

I like this loopy sat cam

www.sat24.com...

reply to post by berkeleygal


Well have a good night. Just before you go here is the latest.

Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by berkeleygal

 

Well have a good night. Just before you go here is the latest.

stunning iv got mine up n open ,,,,,,,

I'm still here

got mila cam working

hmm, too lazy to look this up...

ok, we had hot lava, now we have ash and steam, I know the steam is from lava and ice, right? Now where is the ash coming from, lava burning rocks?

and will we see more lava from this event?

reply to post by berkeleygal


The ash is called tephra and is pulverised rock (magma). It tends to be 'glass' - obsidian like material.

Wikipedia says

Volcanic ash consists of small tephra, which are bits of pulverized rock and glass created by volcanic eruptions,[1] less than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in diameter. There are three mechanisms of volcanic ash formation: gas release under decompression causing magmatic eruptions; thermal contraction from chilling on contact with water causing phreatomagmatic eruptions, and ejection of entrained particles during steam eruptions causing phreatic eruptions.[2] The violent nature of volcanic eruptions involving steam results in the magma and solid rock surrounding the vent being torn into particles of clay to sand size. Volcanic ash can lead to breathing problems, malfunctions in machinery, and from more severe eruptions, years of global cooling.

Bold and underline by me to emphasise what we are seeing in Iceland

reply to post by PuterMan


-ok cool thanks!

I have several big volcanic rocks in the garden and if I handle them I have to wear gloves or they will cut my hands to shreds.


now, where is the lava? will we see more of it?

got both mila and vfone cams working real black plume coming out now

[edit on 17-4-2010 by berkeleygal]

Why is there a lack of live webcams online pointed at this volcano? Even an amateur can set it up with livestream. The only live images I can find is from a webcam that refreshes every 20 secs.

reply to post by broli


eldgos.mila.is...

www.vodafone.is...

net traffic is heavy! if at first ya dont succeed, keep trying, is worth it

There are some cracking good pictures in this Da ily Mail article.

Scroll right down for a picture of cars going through the ash. You can enlarge it.

(Strange, I can't get rid of the space between the a and the i in Daily)

13:45 UTC - Looks as if all 3 Mila camera servers have been crashed by the volume.

[edit on 17/4/2010 by PuterMan]

Puterman or anyone else - I'm looking at the tremor plots Here appears to me we may be in for increased activity. Something is brewing big?

Just got a screen shot of the Iceland Volcano from the online Web-Cam, you can see the lightning in the ash cloud



The web-cam I am looking at here

reply to post by NotAgain


Very cool. Thank you for that!

reply to post by Anmarie96


I had noticed a slight increase.

I don't think big though. Note that the scale has decreased as the large spike has dropped off and this is heightening the effect.

It does not look so dramatic against the full plot.

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/6b3809c4169e.jpg[/atsimg]

reply to post by PuterMan


I really not sure - but even in looking at your plots - I am seeing something that May and appears to me to be something leading to another spike - the amp is raised and showing unrest - brewing - to my eyes anyway. We will see where this goes with time - for better references.