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/
I wonder if this is going to screw up air traffic in Europe?
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?
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.
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.---??
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.
It is about 2:45 am Iceland time here, with a full moon:
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
Working fine for me. Some really black stuff coming out of that vent to the right.
I read somewhere that the harmonic tremors are going like crazy!
So this is a different one than the one we can't pronounce?
http://www2.norvol.hi.is/page/ies_Eyjafjallajokull_eruptionPlumes of white steam extend partway down Gígjökull. The uppermost plume represents the position of the northward-flowing lava flow, whereas the lower plumes are from hot meltwater.
Meltwater:
Discharge remains high from Gígjökull due to lava-ice interactions. Aerial observations of Gígjökull show that warm meltwater has carved a trench partway down the glacier. The electrical conductivity of Krossá and Steinholtsá remains high (see reports from 28–30 April for details).
Conditions at eruption site:
A 200-m-wide eruptive crater is visible within the ice cauldron. The rim of the crater appears to be ~30 m lower than the adjacent ice surface. Lava has propagated ~1 km north from the crater toward Gígjökull. Although steam is forming over the lava front, no large emissions of steam originate from the eruptive crater.
.... Other remarks: No measurable geophysical changes within the Katla volcano.
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.
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.---??