Ira Krakow's Iceland Volcano Update April 18 2010

Read the script for this video at http://blender3dvideos.blogspot.com/2010/04/iceland-volcano-update-april-18-2...

As you look at live video from the eruption at the Iceland volcano whose name I cannot pronounce, here is the latest, as of April 18, 2010, on the effects of this eruption, from various news sources. The links are in the notes at http://blender3dvideos.blogspot.com

According to the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/world/europe/19ash.html?src=me "Britains National Air Traffic Services extended its ban on flights across its airspace until at least 6 a.m. local time Monday, prompting the countrys flag carrier, British Airways, to cancel all of its Monday flights. Across the globe, Cathay Pacific of Hong Kong, Qantas of Australia and China Airlines in Taiwan also canceled Europe-bound flights into Monday and beyond."

According to focus-fan.net http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n217022, Eurocontrol, the Brussels based agency (European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation), expects 84% of all flights scheduled to take off in Europe (21,000 flights out of 25,000) to be cancelled today (Sunday).

EU Transport Ministers will hold a special video conference tomorow (Monday, April 19, 2010) on the air travel crisis. EU ministerial meetings on agriculture and fisheries, due to be held in Luxemburg tomorrow, have been cancelled.

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• iceland
• volcano
• ash
• cloud
• europe
• flight
• delay
• eyjafjallajokull
• katla
• glacier
• weather
• disaster
• catastrophe
• magma
• tephra
• nasa
• noaa

[irakrakow]

There was a false alarm about Mt. Hekla, erupting, on Twitter. Actually, Hekla didn't erupt and is relatively far from this volcano. However, nothing is impossible. Vulcanologists know very little about how the underground magma channels between the volcanos work. Short of going down there, it's hard to figure this out.

[DR3isGawd]

Ira please fill us in on what you know about Katla and if there is a serious threat.

[irakrakow]

@DR3isGawd Katla is very near to this volcano. Every time this volcano has erupted, Katla followed, within about a year. Katla erupts frequently, about once every 50 years. The last time it erupted was 1918. Its strength would be 10 times this one and would result in global cooling in the northern hemisphere. So Katla's effects would dwarf this one and make the current inconveniences a walk in the park.

[cutiekiska]

so is the earth's core going to get colder now that so much lava has come out? Or is iceland going to be colder?

[irakrakow]

@cutiekiska This is a pretty small volcano, not enough to affect the earth's core. However, if Katla blows, that may be a different story.

[cutiekiska]

@irakrakow this is where studying Geology in school would have been helpful LOL but thanks for the updates. My parents' plane leaves soon and it helps to know what's going on.

[irakrakow]

@cutiekiska I wish your parents good luck and bon voyage on their flight.

[nas4x]

@irakrakow Ive been wanting to more about Katla thks

[nas4x]

thanks for the update

[donalduck815]

So, is Iceland getting Bigger?