So, Volcanocafé readers and kind supporters of our “Hekla:The Movie” project, the first baby steps of our momentous journey have been taken. Carl has left the world of corporate mergers to fend for itself and journeyed to Iceland to supervise the first pre-production meeting, alongside Eggert, Bergsveinn and me (Nick). With gallons of coffee and…
Okay… what is a ruminarian? Well, figuratively, we all are. “Ruminate” is a slang term for standing around, thinking about something. I adopted/co-opted the word to describe our activities, in part because it’s what we do, and also due to the sheep nature of the blog, following a hapless sheep incident that someone observed on…
Yesterday, the Bardarbunga crisis celebrated its first month. As our readers have already remarked, the IMO has put out an update that summarises the earthquake data over the past month. In all, some 25,000 earthquakes have been registered by the automated system of which no less than 5,900 have been manually checked by a seismologist.…
This has been unprecedented weeks for Volcanocafé in terms of visitor numbers and we are witnessing events the likes of which none of us have seen before. As if things weren’t exciting enough, we are, as a volcanic community, about to embark on our most ambitious project. Hekla: the Movie That’s right. We aim to…
View from Mila webcam The IMO has confirmed that a fissure eruption has started north of Dyngjujökull. Please do not link to http://www.vedur.is and en.vedur.is sites at this time Please use the live Youtube stream for the webcam rather than the Mila link, as the latter is likely to be in use by emergency authorities…
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