BREAKING NEWS! Icelandic Volcanic Armageddon! Grimsvotn - Possible Eruption !

And some little earthquakes occur underneath the volcano and the tremors are still rising:

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the Volcano will be a mild irruption, much like 2004. There are Ten's of Thousands of Volcanoes.

When i hit the google search for some update's on the Grimsvotn volcano i came along this movie from the flood that occurs at the moment, is ther somebody who can translate this for us?

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The official report from the Grimsvotn volcano, 3 nov 2010:

Grímsvötn volcano
Status Report: 17:00 GMT, 3 November 2010
Icelandic Meteorological Office and Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland
Compiled by: Thorunn Skaftadottir, Egill Axelsson, Steinunn S. Jakobsdottir,
Matthew J. Roberts and Eyjólfur Magnússon
Based on: IMO seismic monitoring; IES-IMO GPS monitoring; IMO
hydrological data; aerial observations from the Icelandic Coastguard
(TF-SIF).
Meltwater: Water continues to drain from Grímsvötn. At 09:30 GMT today,
discharge was gauged at 2,600 m3/s on the Gígja river. Electrical
conductivity has increased to 560 μS/cm. Conductively levels in the
Súla river are similar, indicating that a small volume of geothermal
water is draining from the western side of the Skeiðarárjökull glacier.
It is likely that the jökulhlaup is either at, or nearing, maximum
discharge.
Seismic tremor: At 02:30 GMT today, tremor levels at seismic station 'grf' increased
considerably, particularly in the 1.5 – 5 Hz frequency band. Since then,
tremor levels at grf have remained elevated. A likely cause for the
intensification is a change in drainage rate from Grímsvötn. There is no
sign of low frequency tremor indicative of volcanic activity.
Earthquakes: At 17:44 GMT yesterday, a magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded
beneath Grímsvötn. Several micro-earthquakes were detected at grf
during the onset of heightened tremor at 02:30 GMT; these events were
local to grf and probably sourced from the ice. Between 09:03 and
10:45 GMT four tectonic earthquakes were detected beneath
Grímsvötn.
GPS deformation: No change; see status report from 01 November 2010.
Overall assessment: Seismic tremor at Grímsvötn has continued to amplify, indicating
enhanced drainage of water from the subglacial lake. Aerial
observations over Grímsvötn revealed no signs of volcanic activity.
Discharge continued to increase in the Gígjukvísl river, although it is
likely that the jökulhlaup is at, or nearing, maximum discharge.
Presently, there are no detectable signs of the beginning of a volcanic
eruption at Grimsvötn.

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Flood close to Iceland volcano expected to peak today

Posted on04 November 2010. Tags: Gigjukvisl River, Grimsvotn Volcano, Iceland Flood, Iceland Volcano, Vatnajokull Glacier, Volcano Eruption

Water levels in the Gigjukvisl river in south Iceland, close to Grimsvotn volcano, have risen by about 40 cm since last night. River flow measured 1659 cubic metres just before 18:00 yesterday evening and this morning’s measurements show that the river flow is currently more than 2000 cubic metres.
Egill Axelsson, a Hydrographic specialist working at the Icelandic Met Office (Vedurstofa Islands) commented, “If this continues then we estimate that the flood will reach its peak this afternoon.”

According to mbl.is, Gunnar Gudmundsson, a geophysicist at the Icelandic Met Office said, “There was an increase in turbulence in Grimsvotn at 03:30 this morning but this has remained stable since. The turbulence has not grown in other vicinities nearby, so now it is a question of what does this mean?”

Gudmundsson added, “I am not excluding the fact that this could develop into a small volcanic eruption. However, if this does turn out to be the case, then it will be something similar to the eruption in 2004, which was not major.”

The Grimsvotn volcano eruption in November 2004 lasted for one week but no glacier burst proceeded. Volcanic ash from the volcano fell as far away as mainland Europe, however no disruptions to air traffic were caused.

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If anyone's interested I stumbled across an earthquake blog yesterday and it gets updated throughout the day by various posters who seem to know what they are talking about...many of them are monitoring seismographs etc. You''ll see a blog post and then sroll down to read comments . They frequently post links to the latest seismograph readings and are on the lookout for EQ swarms at the moment..this would strengthen the likelihood of an eruption. You need to check the most recent blog post to see most recent comment...older blog posts have older comments. The most recent blog post is listed on the RHS at the top

Iceland volcano blog

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Hi there, i now what you mean. I searchd for myself and now the site's that they referended to. But from my heart thank you very much.

The new official report of the Grimsvotn volcano :

Grímsvötn volcano
Status Report: 17:00 GMT, 4 November 2010
Icelandic Meteorological Office and Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland
Compiled by: Thorunn Skaftadottir, Eyjólfur Magnússon, Snorri Zophoniasson,
Steinunn S. Jakobsdottir, Gunnar B. Gudmundsson and Matthew J.
Roberts.
Based on: IMO seismic monitoring; IMO hydrological data; IES-IMO GPS
monitoring
Meltwater: The jökulhlaup in the Gígja river peaked yesterday between 13:00 and
14:00 GMT at ~2,600 m3/s. At 10:30 GMT today, a discharge of 1,005
m3/s was recorded. The electrical conductivity of floodwater draining
beneath the Gígja bridge remains high, with values of over 500 μS/cm
measured today.
Seismic tremor: Tremor levels at seismic station 'grf' are declining rapidly. There is no
sign of low frequency tremor indicative of volcanic activity.
Earthquakes: Since yesterday evening, four earthquakes ranging in size from
magnitude 0.7 to 1.2 have been detected at Grímsvötn.
GPS deformation: No change; see status report from 01 November 2010.
Overall assessment: During the last 24 hours, tremor levels at seismic station 'grf' have
declined considerably. Discharge measurements from the Gígja bridge
show that the jökulhlaup peaked yesterday between 13:00 and 14:00
GMT; at this time, the maximum discharge was ~2,600 m3/s. Electrical
conductively levels in Gígja river remain high, signifying continued
drainage of meltwater from Grímsvötn. Presently, there are no
detectable signs of the beginning of a volcanic eruption at Grimsvötn.

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Here some pics of the flight of the coastguard 3 november from the flood of the glacier:

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Just to let you know that it is now all over bar the shouting (until next time!)

We were spared Armageddon

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Yes, that is a good one to look at for Iceland as it is Jon Friman's blog.

He has a couple of seismos at Hekla. You can see the links to them here. First two for the ones Jon owns.

Originally posted by Romantic_Rebel
Looks like another one has blown the top. Now watch all the news discuses about planes can't flying. Jesus!

For what it’s worth, here is the web cam address for the two other big volcanos: Katla and Eyeballjelloskull.
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and currently being repaired,
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And the earth quake map,
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btw, I didn’t think you believed in Jesus.