After rumble at us all weekwithunconfirmed subglacial eruptionsand tormenting volcanologists to turn over will it or wo n’t it erupt , Bárðarbunga belch forth a fountain of lava . The bam was both gentle and short - lived with no ash tree , prefigure well for air travel .
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Bárðarbunga start push through just after midnight local meter with a gentle , burbling chap eruption . Webcam screenshot
Bárðarbunga starting erupting just after midnight local time on Holuhraun north of Dyngjujökull . Initial sleepy assessments were that it wasa300 to 400 meter long cranny eruption ; that estimate was soondowngraded to 100 meterswith low lava fountains . It fizzled out by 4 am , but fissure eruptions can full and wane repeatedly so it might not be finish yet . If the irruption persist like this polite burble , the vent will not produce ash tree cloud and poses minimal scourge to air change of location .
Flyover at 10:41 and 10:44 am on the morning following the outbreak . ikon cite : Icelandic Coast Guard
Thebest - set webcam to ascertain the eruption live is here , although no promise it ’ll actually be break out when you look . If you ’re feeling impatient ( or get unlucky in your timing and have nothing to see),here ’s the first hour of the rather underwhelming eruption hie up to just 36 arcsecond . you may see morephotographs and picture of the continuing steam clouds marking the fissure here .
Icelandic Met Office has lowered air power alert back to Orange base on reduced activity @#Bardarbunga#volcanoJopic.twitter.com / vlsbsjB31z
— BBC Weather ( @bbcweather)August 29 , 2014
The Coast Guard flew science team out to the land site after sunrise , confirming the characteristic of the eruption and monitoring it for any change . The eruption was along an former scissure , with or so 600 meters participating during the top of the eruption . Within four hours , all the lava had drained from the crack , blockade the eruption . By the time of the flypast , only steam was emerging in ashen puffs , with no substantial ash . Thescience team concludedthe most likely outcomes going forward are :
The migration of magma could stop , lead in a gradual reducing in seismal activity and no further eruptions .
The dyke could reach the Earth ’s airfoil northerly of Dyngjujökull stimulate another irruption , perhaps on a new fissure . Such an blast could include lava flow and ( or ) volatile natural action .
The trespass reaches the surface and an eruption hap again where either the fissure is partly or alone beneath Dyngjujökull . This would most likely produce a inundation in Jökulsá á Fjöllum and perhaps volatile , ash tree - producing bodily function .
Although unlikely , a major caldera eruption can not be ruled out .
After teasing scientist all hebdomad with the potential for an extravasation , Bárðarbunga last stepped up with an active clap just as before long asI get to Dragon Con . I do n’t know what the inanimate , geologic equivalent of scotch its leg is , but I ’m suspicious the vent has been deliberately holding off erupting for the least commodious second . To read more on Bárðarbunga ’s eruption from a geoscientist who can push update as the observations come in , check out Erik Klemetti ’s Eruptions Blog .
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/updates-on-eruptions-in-iceland-and-rabaul/
Special admiration to science bloggerJón Frímann who noticed the eructation on webcamand take it to our collective attention . Check outfieldwork photograph from the Met Office here , anextensive history of the vent here ,
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