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How bad would an eruption be on a local, country and global scale? With the amount of news surrounding this, it makes it sound like a super volcano is about to erupt. At the same time however, I’d think a super volcano would be way more disasterous than a basic evacuation would handle.
This will likely be completely ignorable by people outside of Iceland:
PSA: The pending Iceland eruption will not produce a colossal and long-lived ash cloud like the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull – you need an erupting into a glacier or ice sheet for that with this sort of magma – and it will have NO EFFECT ON THE CLIMATE WHATSOEVER.
It would be disastrous for my vacation if Europe gets ashed and my flight cancelled😞
Aww poor baby. How about the millions this will affect, and those that will die? Nah, just think only of yourself and your vacation. Fucking piece of shit.
You are being pretty dramatic about an honest and harmless comment. Grow up and stop making the internet worse.
Well, as a North Sea dwelling individual, I would be one of those millions breathing the ash clouds and being affected. Not really sure what you know about Icelandic volcanos but thankfully deaths are rare and disruptions to air travel are typically the main consideration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_April_2010_Eyjafjallajökull_eruption
But I appreciate the kind words…
Well, I’m glad it’s not as devastating as I thought. I’m just sick and tired of the selfish, entitled trash in this world not giving a damn about anything but their vacations and nail appointments and stock options. Anyway, stay safe up there! Your country is very pretty from what I’ve seen and I’d love to visit it some day.
Just to be clear, I live in continental Europe and not Iceland.
As other have pointed out, Iceland very much depends on both tourism and their national airline IcelandAir. People in those sectors will certainly be affected much worse than me.
I don’t deny being selfish but my comment was just trying to point out one of the main concerns, in a cheeky way.
why do both of you need to be bellends about this
Depends on the size of the eruption. We have seen anything from local disturbances to European and some intercontinental air traffic being disrupted for more than a week because of giant clouds of ash in the past.
Going by what experts expect this time, it will probaby not have much impact beyond Iceland but unlike in the last few years the location includes populated areas this time so at least some evacuation of people living there is going on.
It all depends on the size and strength of the eruption. The Reykjarnes peninsula is relatively important, as it is home to Keflavik Airport on the north west tip, which is the main one serving the island and nearby capital Reykjavik. There is a cluster of towns around there and then Grindavik on the south side. However, the rest of the peninsula is mostly barren with volcanic rock fields (apart from the famous geothermal spa the Blue Lagoon somewhere in the middle and the power plant that provides its famous blue hot springs).
It so happens that this same area has seen eruptions in each of the last 2 years and apparently has a 10km stretch of underground lava flow still from that. I’m unsure if this implies it will be more or less impact full this time.
It appears that readings are centred on Grindavik. There’s already been some road damage and land slippages there.
A similar series of eruptions happened in 2010. It’s bad, but not apocalyptic. Planes were diverted because of ash clouds for a bit, and IIRC a few people who didn’t heed the ample warnings died.
This should be like that.
e: hopefully nobody will be belligerent enough to ignore the warnings.
Last time it happened it grounded almost all European air traffic for a week or two. So probably about the same I guess.
This is not true. See my other comment: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/4591087
That wasn’t the last time. There was an eruption in 2021 that continued to 2022 in this same peninsula where they’re expecting a new eruption, which was much tamer. Open lava flow but no billowing clouds across the continent.
It appears that there is still underground lava flow across the peninsula from that eruption, so it is likely a further eruption in the same system.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Iceland’s prime minister has sought to reassure the nation as it braces for a volcanic eruption and the Reykjanes peninsula continues to be hit by hundreds of earthquakes.
Lying between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates – which move in opposite directions – Iceland is a global hotspot for seismic and volcanic activity.
Although the size and intensity of the activity was decreasing, the met office said the volcanic hazard assessment remained unchanged, with the country in a state of emergency.
Huge queues, several kilometres long, formed as residents of the fishing town were briefly allowed to return to their homes to collect necessities and belongings.
In a speech in the Icelandic parliament, Katrín Jakobsdóttir said Friday’s evacuation of the town was done “with the safety of the residents in mind” but shared her sympathy with those forced to leave their homes.
They added: “The natural hazards monitoring team at IMO is operating at maximum surveillance while the department of civil protection and emergency management coordinates short-term, temporary access to Grindavík today, 13 November.”
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Ragnarök awaits.
