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  1. Melodi

    SCI Iceland raises alert level for its most active volcano

    I'm posting this in case this one blows in the near future as Iceland thinks that it might... https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/1206/1265163-iceland-volcano-alert/ Iceland raises alert level for its most active volcano Updated / Monday, 6 Dec 2021 16:25 The eruption of the Grímsvötn volcano...
  2. Melodi

    SCI Vikings Introduce Native American DNA To Iceland

    I've mentioned this a few times in the past and here's an MSM article about the topic - there is also a link to the original scientific paper that published the data on the Native American DNA from a "Founding Mother" of Iceland...
  3. Melodi

    SCI 'Icelandia': Is Iceland the tip of a vast, sunken continent?

    Interesting, now this is something unexpected.... https://phys.org/news/2021-06-icelandia-iceland-vast-sunken-continent.html 'Icelandia': Is Iceland the tip of a vast, sunken continent? by Geological Society of America Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Academics believe they have identified a...
  4. Doomer Doug

    ENVR Monster Size Lava Fountain Erupts in Iceland

    The video from this is truly amazing. It shows a fountain of Lava, like the ones from Hawaii only this one shoots 900 FEET IN THE AIR. It shoots up that far, and also is at night so the optics are outstanding. Didn't see it anywhere else. The link is here...
  5. Melodi

    SCI Mysterious boat-shaped rock structure is discovered in a Icelandic cave that Vikings likely used to ward off the apocalypse

    I tried going to the original journal article but is behind an institutional paywall, but the UK Daily Mail article is actually pretty good as far as it goes. I can't wait to show this to Nightwolf - although I think this was more about trying to talk the god in charge of Volcanos (Sert) into...
  6. Melodi

    SCI Greek Discovery of Iceland Supported by New Evidence [Ancient Greece]

    Unless an ancient Greek coin hoard, burial, or other item is found in Iceland this can't be verified but I suspect it is likely to be true, for the same reasons that Nightwolf has always accepted the Brendan Voyages to be accounts of an actual trip to North America by someone who made it there...
  7. Melodi

    INTL celand's capital Reykjavik is rattled by powerful 5.6-magnitude earthquake (Volcanic?)

    And I guess it just wouldn't be 2020 if good old "Mt. Unpronounceable" didn't start rattling a bit, possibly causing a mid-level quake in Iceland and threatening to erupt again...
  8. Melodi

    INTL Iceland's most active volcano may be about to erupt again

    And then I think, 2020, it just keeps rolling along... https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/1008/1170195-iceland-volcano-grimsvotn/?fbclid=IwAR3JtgoTWJY8Y8EnE3YWjqluARpD5nGo4Ogezc0MqVa2rFpXw1KhkHe-QSk Iceland's most active volcano may be about to erupt again Updated / Friday, 9 Oct 2020 12:34 A...
  9. Melodi

    SCI Is Iceland About to Experience its Biggest Volcanic Eruption Yet?

    'An eruption could occur at any time from 8 hours to 72 hours from now' Olivia Petter @oliviapetter1 The Independent Travel There have been over 500 earthquakes in Iceland in the last four days, leading experts to believe that a volcanic eruption could be imminent. A series of 40...
  10. MinnesotaSmith

    POL Iceland about to have the Pirate Party take over (not a joke)

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-a-land-of-vikings-braces-for-a-pirate-party-takeover/2016/10/23/f1bfe992-9540-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html By Griff Witte October 23 [2016] REYKJAVIK, ICELAND — "The party that could be on the cusp of winning Iceland’s national elections...
  11. Melodi

    ENER Katla (the Volcano not my kitten) wakes up in Iceland (earthquakes so far not erupting)

    And here we go - just at the edge of what can be considered "soon" as predicted a few years ago when Mt. Unpronounceable erupted, Katla now seems to be waking up (historically they tend to go off "together" geologically that can mean within 10 or even 20 years. Iceland Raises Alarm After...
  12. Melodi

    SCI Iceland's Hekla Volcano may be ready to erupt at "any time."

    This isn't a disaster story yet but air traffic will be affected if she blows; hikers are already being asked not to hike on or near the mountain - Hekla goes off every few years so this isn't unusual but she's showing the same signs she did the last time - Nature and Travel | Iceland Monitor...
  13. ShadowMan

    ECON Perhaps Greece should follow Iceland's example....jail the bankers!!

    What about Iceland? Perhaps Greece should follow Iceland's example....jail the bankers!! Strange how you don't hear a nit about how Iceland handled it's foreign imposed debt, economic collapse and is bailing itself out.....after going after the Politicians and Bankers that caused the problem in...
  14. Melodi

    Earth Chgs Head's up in Iceland!

    I've seen this other places than the Daily Mirror so I know this is a real alert- I've had a sort of low pressure headache that I sometimes get before earthquakes for several days now. It can be ignored, sometimes it is allergies but it tends to life after an earthquake happens - it has not...
  15. W

    ENVR Earthquake 6.6 Iceland (upgraded to 6.8)

    Earthquakes Magnitude 6.6 - JAN MAYEN ISLAND REGION 2012 August 30 13:43:24 UTC Details Maps Scientific & Technical Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 6.6 Date-Time Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 13:43:24 UTC Thursday...
  16. Tom Bryceland

    ENVR New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15995845 Lots o' Doom here, even for the Beeb, New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact By Jane O'Brien BBC News, Reykjavik Ford Cochran says that the 500 or so tremors in and around the caldera of Katla just in the last month suggest "an...
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