Iceland volcano.

[PhilEOS]

Live webcam from the new eruption.
https://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/geldingadalur---volcano/

 

[PhilEOS]

Can mods move to off topic please.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

This image appeared on my Twitter feed. A beautiful scene.

 

[Cesare]

I love the fact that this could stop tomorrow, or carry on for the next 10 years. Iceland is an amazing place, we were there in 2019 and if you have any sort of understanding of geology it's all there to see. Quite amazing really. That 'little' hill of lava could keep growing. If it did, it'd look like:

DSCF3741 by Cesare Ferrari, on Flickr

 

[TimF]

Such an incredibly beautiful, rugged place! I would love to visit sometime.

 

[Big Tabs]

We had a good time when we visited a few years ago.

We wouldn’t go again though, a week was enough.

The last time a volcano went off and sent all that ash up, my The Wife was supposed to be flying to New York. Flight cancelled before boarding, Wife and her friend very annoyed. Glad I wasn’t there.

I have a fab 1950’s - 60’s corduroy hat that I got from a charity store in Reykjavik.

 

[Dinovector]

This image appeared on my Twitter feed. A beautiful scene.

I saw that picture on the BBC I think, I don't know whether to think silly buggers of jammy buggers! Not something you see every day, certainly worth seeing.

We were on a beach near San Ferdinando in Italy when Stromboli erupted in 2019, that was something else even from 30 - 40 miles away

 

[Cesare]

I saw that picture on the BBC I think, I don't know whether to think silly buggers of jammy buggers! Not something you see every day, certainly worth seeing.

We were on a beach near San Ferdinando in Italy when Stromboli erupted in 2019, that was something else even from 30 - 40 miles away

Look up Pliny the Younger's account of the the Vesuvius eruption in 79AD. He was 30km or so away, and they had it all, ash falling thick enough that it was as dark as night, the sea receding suddenly to leave fish behind on the sand, astonishing stuff, and of course best of all, his first hand account survives. This was the event that killed his uncle, (Pliny the Elder).

Here's a translation of his two letters about it: https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/pliny.html

 

[Gingerbeard]

Look up Pliny the Younger's account of the the Vesuvius eruption in 79AD. He was 30km or so away, and they had it all, ash falling thick enough that it was as dark as night, the sea receding suddenly to leave fish behind on the sand, astonishing stuff, and of course best of all, his first hand account survives. This was the event that killed his uncle, (Pliny the Elder).

Here's a translation of his two letters about it: https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/pliny.html

what a great read, thanks for sharing

 

[TheDecameron]

Up close and personal, 10min in

 

[Bananahead]

I know someone who runs a photography travel business and often goes to Iceland. He was there for the start of the eruption and has a lot of interesting stories and fantastic pictures. The first thing that he did when he got home was send the camera and lens to the manufacturer for a service. He said that it was too hot to handhold so he had to wear gloves.


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