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Lookout for Mount Katla

April 20, 2010

Can you say Eyjafjallajökull?

Eyjafjallajökull an Iceland-de-an Volcano currently pumping plumes of ash into the atmosphere all over Iceland and Europe grounding flights, costing airliners and oil companies Millinos! has a big cousin.

MOUNT KATLA.

Mount Katla, Eyjafjallajökull big cousin has a habbit of erupting every time its little cousin does.

And while Eyjafjallajökull is a threat, it’s nothing compared to Katla, a larger and more dangerous volcano. In the past 1,100 years, every time Eyjafjallajökull has erupted, Katla has soon followed suit. “The volcanoes appear to be linked in some way, but it’s not quite clear how,” Dr. Williams-Jones said. “We don’t really know what’s down there.”

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Also in the last couple of days there has been a 200% increase in activity at Mount Katla, so things are not looking good at the moment

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Eyjafjallajökull in March 2006, viewed from a recreation area on the Sólheimajökull, a glacier on the Katla volcano Over the past 1,100 years, Eyjafjallajökull has erupted four times: in 920, 1612, between 1821–1823, and in 2010. Each of the first three of these incidents preceded an eruption in the nearby subglacial volcano, Katla.[9] Katla – a much more active volcano known for its powerful subglacial eruptions and its large magma chamber, much larger than that of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano system – has not shown any unusual activity, such as expansion of the crust or seismic activity. Some geophysicists in Iceland support the notion that the recent volcanic eruption at Eyjafjallajökull may trigger a second eruption at Katla, one which would cause major flooding due to melting of glacial ice.

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Hopefully nothing else happen, but people in Iceland need to get out and those in neighbouring countries should move as far as possible in the opposite direction, a Volcano of this magnitude could cause a massive ash plumes blocking out the sun for days, killing livestock, plants and affecting the earths climate.

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