A volcano is expected to erupt in Icelnd

[Randomthought]

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[Siwsan]

1. I follow an Icelandic tour guy from Reykjavk on FB. He said they've had thousands of small quakes.

Very unusual activity. I fully expect he will go live, if this blows.

I never even felt a quake when I was stationed there, but I did always look at those volcanos with a whole lot of fear and respect.

[soothsayer]

2. That volcano with the wild name that disrupted all that air traffic was quite a thing

Is it the same volcano?

[lagomorph777]

3. The one that canceled summer around the world in 1817 was also quite a thing.

A very bad thing.

[soothsayer]

4. Was that Krakatoa, east of Java?

Oh! Or an Icelandic one?

[DFW]

6. Krakatoa was 1883 n/t

[lagomorph777]

8. Close: Tambora (but I was confused) - there was also a bad one in Iceland in 1783-4

So 1817 and 1784 both had very cold summers, due to volcanoes on opposite sides of the planet.

[marie999]

9. Krakatoa is actually West of Java.

I don't know why whoever made the movie didn't check where it really is.

[soothsayer]

10. Oh, man! I saw that in the theater as a kid

Will I ever remember the right direction

[canetoad]

13. Krakatoa is re-growing

In the caldera of the original volcano.

They call it, "Anak Krakatao" - child of Krakatoa

[roamer65]

19. Mount Tambora in 1815.

The eruption was heard 1200 miles away.

1816 was known as “the year without a summer”. Food shortages brought Europe to near rebellion.

[lagomorph777]

21. That's the one I was thinking of (well, one of the two I had scrambled together)

[roamer65]

23. Close enough for points!

[DFW]

5. That was no wild name

It was merely Eyjafjallajökull..........

[soothsayer]

7. The Welsh laugh at that short name!

[DFW]

12. The Welsh are one of the few peoples who are allowed to do that.

The Thai, too. All others bow down and repeat after me: AY-ya-FYAL-la-JÖ-kul

[canetoad]

11. Eyjafjallajokull nt

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

14. "This will probably be a lava eruption with little explosive activity" Fissure eruption, no plume

"Go about your daily lives"

LOL love that part

[UTUSN]

15. In 2010 that Icelander messed with me, of all people!1 (Is there more than one?)

A couple of cousins and my elderly sister talked me into a 7-days' superficial tour to Europe. They were old hands at the tour thing. My traveling was from long ago what the Navy could cram into 4 years: San Diego boot camp, Vietnam, Philippines, Guam, glances at Japan and Hong Kong, Seattle, Panama Canal, Haiti, New Orleans, and Norfolk. Then I did very little more out of my regional comfort zone.

So in 2010, about 3 months before departure, I got put on a jury kind of thing with potential future calling up, touch and go, until finally being resolved. Then for a few (weeks) around departure, this Iceland volcano was doing its thing, with flights being diverted, just to give me more stomach nerves than the unacustomed traveling. The final leg of the flying there was in a smaller plane with *daredevil* pilots, causing the missionary couple near my seat to commend us all, several times over, to some unearthly place.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

16. There's always one blowing up somewhere, Mt Etna in Italy is still erupting

[UTUSN]

18. Well, yes, but out of sight out of mind, no? Not that it was in sight

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when it made me take it scarily personally.

Context being, traveling/flying being an unusual thing for me at age 64 then, and the going through last minute advisories about flying my route... -- yea, this one was particular, specific, personal. Not abstract or universal for me at the time.

[pecosbob]

20. I remember riding along the narrow roads below that mountain in quieter times

I would see smoke peacefully rising from the snow-covered peak and think to myself one day it be bad day to be in this place.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

17. Olympus Mons laughs at your puny earth volcanos.

[theneworiginal]

22. Iceland is situated on moving tectonic plates and always has activity.

Its main industry is geothermal energy because the earth is warm even tho the air is cold. There are volcanos everywhere and hot springs with geysers and lava fields for miles. Looks like the moon in some places. Great place to visit--very novel and small enough to see in a few days. It has become a very popular destination in recent years. Lots to see if you don't mind the wild weather.