Escape Goat
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IT HAS BEGUN
Thats a 12 mile high plume!
Thats a 12 mile high plume!
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Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting
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Snytbaggen
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^ Awesome photo, does any one have a higher res version?
Here's a cool animation of the plume penetrating the cloud cover and spreading..
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/110521_g13_vis_volcano_anim.gif
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/110521_g13_vis_volcano_anim.gif
They're saying this eruption is 10x greater than both the 2010 Ejyalla and 2004 Grimsvoetn eruptions.. but the composition of the plume is different so it may not effect air travel as much. This is still very much a developing situation though, as earthquakes are spreading to various calderas on the island.
Observers reporting unusal high lightning activity inside the plume, 2200 flashes per hour!
Video of lightning
Video of lightning
gofreak said:
Will I see that penis in 3d if I wear glasses with one green and one red lens?
From The Dust
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kottila said:
that penis needs to get checked out. :\
Imperial Hot
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What a lame rapture.
scar tissue
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jeez, i hope the airports won't close down again 
Flightradar24 just added ash cloud layer, so you can see where it will be and how will affect airtraffic.
Atleast there is lesser amount of ash today, due to lower plume (5-9 km). But tremors are saying that eruption is still very strong, magma is rising from great depth. It is hard to see plume today, due to very strong overcast and wind on Iceland. Only one part of Iceland is not covered with dust, livestock is dying, visibility is 1-500 meters on most affected places. Where is Iceland GAF?
Pestul, that pic is from ISS. They were right above Kamchatka when local volcano erupted
Atleast there is lesser amount of ash today, due to lower plume (5-9 km). But tremors are saying that eruption is still very strong, magma is rising from great depth. It is hard to see plume today, due to very strong overcast and wind on Iceland. Only one part of Iceland is not covered with dust, livestock is dying, visibility is 1-500 meters on most affected places. Where is Iceland GAF?
Pestul, that pic is from ISS. They were right above Kamchatka when local volcano erupted
Escape Goat
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http://www.visir.is/album/20110523/FRETTIR/523009992
Amazing sequence of pictures from close to the eruption site.
Amazing sequence of pictures from close to the eruption site.
http://www.visir.is/storkostlegt-myndband---eldingarnar-leiftra-i-grimsvotnum/article/2011110529498
Amazing video here from the same dudes who took these photos.
Amazing video here from the same dudes who took these photos.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I'm scheduled to be flying from Edinburgh > Amsterdam > Xiamen > Taipei on Thurs/Friday. If this shit fucks me up, then I will not be a happy person (to say the very least.)
XiaNaphryz
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Source for this one?Teh Hamburglar said:
forknknife
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navanman said:
I'm on the same boat, I mean, plane
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DrM said:Flightradar24 just added ash cloud layer, so you can see where it will be and how will affect airtraffic.
Atleast there is lesser amount of ash today, due to lower plume (5-9 km). But tremors are saying that eruption is still very strong, magma is rising from great depth. It is hard to see plume today, due to very strong overcast and wind on Iceland. Only one part of Iceland is not covered with dust, livestock is dying, visibility is 1-500 meters on most affected places. Where is Iceland GAF?
Pestul, that pic is from ISS. They were right above Kamchatka when local volcano erupted
fuck, that's scary
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
That's Mount Doom from LOTR.XiaNaphryz said:
opticalmace
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Um isn't that from lord of the rings? lolXiaNaphryz said:
It's funny, because my family in Iceland isn't even talking about the volcano at all. No one there is all that concerned, except for the people living near it. Still, the volcano has the potential to do some serious damage. My aunt posted a thing on her Facebook saying it's 10x worse than last years, though I'm not sure I quite believe that.DrM said:Flightradar24 just added ash cloud layer, so you can see where it will be and how will affect airtraffic.
Atleast there is lesser amount of ash today, due to lower plume (5-9 km). But tremors are saying that eruption is still very strong, magma is rising from great depth. It is hard to see plume today, due to very strong overcast and wind on Iceland. Only one part of Iceland is not covered with dust, livestock is dying, visibility is 1-500 meters on most affected places. Where is Iceland GAF?
Pestul, that pic is from ISS. They were right above Kamchatka when local volcano erupted
WolfofMebu
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pestul said:
Thanks for sharing the links, some really incredible footage.
C'mon, Iceland... I got stuck for a week during the last eruption and this time I've got a flight from Edinburgh to Stockholm on Friday. Hope it's over by then.
At least it's a comfort to know that this is one of the few natural disasters we have to deal with in Europe; feels almost silly to complain about it in the light of what's happened elsewhere recently.
At least it's a comfort to know that this is one of the few natural disasters we have to deal with in Europe; feels almost silly to complain about it in the light of what's happened elsewhere recently.
Escape Goat
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XiaNaphryz said:
lol
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Ronok said:
Find some vikings! They'll zip you on over the land of ice and snow.
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Ronok said:
Barberetti
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pestul said:
Wow! Awesome stuff.
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