There is large amount of smoke coming from new vent on left. On the right is the fiery vent we have been watching.
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/
ENVR 5/1/10 Volcano Iceland Hvolsevelli new vent erupting?
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/
THE CAMERA IS LIVE- CONTINUOUS UPDATE..Watch it change. This is NEW so you could be there, have a front row seat for a major eruption to see it live, if you happen to be watching.
THE CAMERA IS LIVE- CONTINUOUS UPDATE..Watch it change. This is NEW so you could be there, have a front row seat for a major eruption to see it live, if you happen to be watching.
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Old Gray Mare
TB Fanatic
I wonder if this is going to screw up air traffic in Europe?
Follow ash plume predictions here,
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk_vag.html
Latest chart,
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ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
It is about 2:45 am Iceland time here, with a full moon:
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
Here is another, not so spectacular view from this live cam:
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk/
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk/
Swamp Wallaby
International Observer
It looks like two almost distinct clouds, dark on the right with explosions at the base, where we're used to seeing the ash originate, and pale and underlit on the left. Maybe the paler cloud is steam coming from a new or larger magma flow from the old crater (which is putting on a fair show!), rather than a new vent opening up?
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
Keep watching folks, it appears a THIRD vent is developing to the left of the second one that appeared tonight. The smoke and ash is blowing to the right and we have watched smoke start coming up and increase in intensity to the left of the vent on the left. We are watching to catch fire erupting from a third place, to the left of the two you see.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
I've only been watching this for the last 30 minutes since I first got on, but the "fire" erupting from the right-hand vent appears to me to have tripled in height just in the last 30 minutes.
Per what someone else above asked---is this still the same volcano as before, or are the new eruptions on the "sister" volcano, Katla?
Per what someone else above asked---is this still the same volcano as before, or are the new eruptions on the "sister" volcano, Katla?
Lilbitsnana
On TB every waking moment
It is a LOT bigger. Is that a third vent to the left of the two erupting vents?.
Swamp Wallaby
International Observer
According to Wikipedia, Hvolsvelli, or at least Hvolsvollur, is NW of Eyjafjallajokull. So if these are new eruptions they do seem to be on the Katla side of Eyja. From the current perspective, though, I don't think they're far enough away to be Katla. Mind you, I could always be wrong!
Lilbitsnana
On TB every waking moment
It almost looks like a 4th vent now. I hope it's just the way the smoke/ash is hovering.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
PS: For those of you that do not know, IF YOU WANT A CLOSE UP VIEW OF THE VOLCANO, LIKE YOU WERE ONLY 100 YARDS AWAY, HOLD DOWN "CONTROL AND + KEY"(AT THE SAME TIME) AND IT WILL ZOOM INTO THE CAM PHOTO! THE MORE TIMES YOU DO IT THE MORE IT WILL ZOOM IN.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
I can't seem to get that to work for me. I tried it with the cursor arrow both on and off the picture itself.---??
Swamp Wallaby
International Observer
Hm, the origins of the new clouds do look a lot further away from the central crater now that it's daylight.
Don't forget the original vents at Fimmvörðuháls, on the saddle between Eyja and Katla, which erupted first, back in March. They might've opened up again
Don't forget the original vents at Fimmvörðuháls, on the saddle between Eyja and Katla, which erupted first, back in March. They might've opened up again
Siloam
Senior Member
On a mac holding down the command key (with the "apple" on it) and the "+" key enlarges the picture.
(Countrymouse: this may or may not help you - not sure.)
Thanks ainitfunny for the tip about the cam photo zoom.
Siloam
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
I don't have a mac. Holding "control" and + usually enlarges the text of a page, but on this one it's not doing anything.
Could the fact that I'm on Mozilla (Firefox) have anything to do with this not working?
Ok--got it working---had to hold cursor over the TEXT, not over the pic, then it works.
Could the fact that I'm on Mozilla (Firefox) have anything to do with this not working?
Ok--got it working---had to hold cursor over the TEXT, not over the pic, then it works.
Lilbitsnana
On TB every waking moment
CM if you hold the "control"+"windows" button and the "+" button at the same time it should zoom you in. It works for me.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
somdwatcher
Veteran Member
Has anyone tried those links we were using to monitor the tremor amplitudes from Iceland during the previous eruptions? Those links have worked everyday I have gone to them until now.....timed out or not available.....hummmm
Swamp Wallaby
International Observer
Timed out for me, too, about half an hour ago.
onetimer
Veteran Member
I wonder if the 2 new vents are more steam then ash. They may still be breaking through the glacier.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
I wonder if we threw AL GORE in there it would appease the mountain? We could throw Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi in the other vent and Obama in the third and achieve world peace and satisfy "mother nature".
If it doesn't work, well, at least it made most of the voters happy.
If it doesn't work, well, at least it made most of the voters happy.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
LATEST PHOTO-Notice the jets laying contrails right over the volcano!
bobpick
Inactive
This is the same E15 volcano that stopped air traffic. The names are the sites of the cameras. So if Mt. Hood was to go you may have Seattle, Portland, Pendleton as the cameras.
I'm personally not following this volcano closely, but for those of you that are it looks like the Discovery Channel will have an upcoming show on it:
05/06/2010/Thu, 9:00 p.m. (Discovery Channel) (repeats three hours later)
The Volcano that Stopped the World -- When the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallojokull began erupting on April 14, the resulting plumes of ash disrupted air traffic worldwide. This hour explores why and how this seemingly benign event created a global crisis.
05/06/2010/Thu, 9:00 p.m. (Discovery Channel) (repeats three hours later)
The Volcano that Stopped the World -- When the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallojokull began erupting on April 14, the resulting plumes of ash disrupted air traffic worldwide. This hour explores why and how this seemingly benign event created a global crisis.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
I'm GLAD I'm not in Iceland. Like when St Helens went off initially some people even sneaked past barricades to get a closer better view of the initial smoke and ash eruptions. That proved a fatal bait to a lot of them when the top of the mountain suddenly came off.
Can you imagine the volcano beckoning......
Volcano: "GLAD to see you've come close to watch the excitement. Now that you have a front row seat, hold my beer and watch this....."
Can you imagine the volcano beckoning......
Volcano: "GLAD to see you've come close to watch the excitement. Now that you have a front row seat, hold my beer and watch this....."
Mr. Rasmussen
Inactive
I'm watching live right now from eyjafjallajokull and in the last 30 minutes a new vent in the ice has opened up, as can been seen in this gif animation I made of too screen shots approx. 30 min. between them.
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/
Swamp Wallaby
International Observer
JMH(uninformed)O, but it looks possible to me that they're not new vents from the volcano itself, but rather that a new, greater flow of magma is creeping down that valley under the ice from the crater (as it's been doing for a while, AFAIK) and blowing off steam through any shallow or ruptured sections of the glacier it passes. 
Swamp Wallaby
International Observer
Close but no cigar! 
Apparently it's boiling meltwater running down the gully that's causing most of the steam.
Apparently it's boiling meltwater running down the gully that's causing most of the steam.http://www2.norvol.hi.is/page/ies_Eyjafjallajokull_eruption
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
JMH(uninformed)O, but it looks possible to me that they're not new vents from the volcano itself, but rather that a new, greater flow of magma is creeping down that valley under the ice from the crater (as it's been doing for a while, AFAIK) and blowing off steam through any shallow or ruptured sections of the glacier it passes.
Well, if you had been watching through the night you would have seen fire erupting from three different sites progressively.
Swamp Wallaby
International Observer
Well, I was watching for a while just before sunrise (Icelandic time), and to me the glow at / near the base of the left-hand clouds looked more like a reflection. It seemed to flare when the central crater did - and that's one reason I commented at the time that it could be steam from a lava flow rather than new, erupting vents. Of course, you were watching earlier than I was...
Mr. Rasmussen
Inactive
When i wrote "new vent in the ice has opened up" I was thinking about a steam vent from the flow of lava under the ice, not a new eruption.
Looking forward to see if the "flow" get through to the edge.
Hopefully large amounts of lava is going to flow right past the camera
Another animation, this with 5 frames.
Looking forward to see if the "flow" get through to the edge.
Hopefully large amounts of lava is going to flow right past the camera
Another animation, this with 5 frames.
Mr. Rasmussen
Inactive
The seismograph page at http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/gosplott.html
has been updated with the following text.
"Katla is NOT erupting and there are NO indications that Katla is about to erupt. Information on this page is for the Eyjafjallajökull eruption."
Rumbling one:
has been updated with the following text.
"Katla is NOT erupting and there are NO indications that Katla is about to erupt. Information on this page is for the Eyjafjallajökull eruption."
Rumbling one:
Lost Patriot
Membership Revoked
You need Vista or Windoze 7 to do that trick.. Won't work on XP/98
Mr. Rasmussen
Inactive
I was looking at Eyjafjallajokull in Google Earth with the Geo-Eye image on.
(http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/04/satellite-imagery-of-icelandic-volcano.html)
When i noted this aircraft in the image, WHAT a SCALE !
the aircraft looks like a twin engine at the size of a DC3 when zoomed in Google Earth.
(http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/04/satellite-imagery-of-icelandic-volcano.html)
When i noted this aircraft in the image, WHAT a SCALE !
the aircraft looks like a twin engine at the size of a DC3 when zoomed in Google Earth.