Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is nothing to 'Angry Sister' Katla

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Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is nothing to 'Angry Sister' Katla

Every time in recorded history that Eyjafjallajökull volcano has erupted, the much larger Katla volcano has also erupted. Scientists are watching Katla carefully.


By Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer / April 18, 2010


This history of Iceland will not make for comforting reading for thousands of would-be air travelers stranded across northern Europe and beyond.

The last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted, it continued belching the Earth's unsettled insides for 14 months, from December 1821 to January 1823.

Scientists do not expect Eyjafjallajökull to keep northern Europe's airports closed for 14 months, but they suggest that Eyjafjallajökull's impact on world travel might not end with the end of this current eruption.

Moreover, Iceland's "Angry Sister" hasn't even awoken yet. The three times in recorded history when Eyjafjallajökull has erupted, its neighbor, the much larger Katla, has followed suit.

Data do not yet suggest that a Katla eruption is imminent. Yet, in some respects, it is the far greater concern, both in Iceland and beyond.


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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0418/Iceland-s-Eyjafjallajoekull-volcano-is-nothing-to-Angry-Sister-Katla

[virgogal]

1. This is one time when all of us,rich and poor alike,are powerless.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. That's what I love about nature.

[Bobbieo]

4. Somewhere I read after our last Baja earthquake on April 4th that the fault line lies

on top of a dormant volcano. Does anyone have a link to that angle?
That does give some of us Southwesterners food for thought.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I thnk no place is really safe.

We've had three earthquakes in our neck of the woods in the past two weeks. Nothing over 5.0, but still...

[ashling]

3. that's one major case of reflux

I love this phrase in the article:
belching the Earth's unsettled insides