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Visible Volcanic Shockwaves and UFO’s?

Iceland’s rumbling, smoking volcano Eyjafjallajokull shows rainbow-like shockwaves belching from the crater like snakes from a can of nuts.  Nothing to fear, though, it’s merely the aftereffects of Plinian events. via Fox http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/23/stunning-new-video-shows-shockwaves-icelands-volcano/ The video was loaded April 20, 2010.

Nothing to Fear?  Fear itself?

The explosions are called Plinian events, after the historian Pliny who described the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. 

The gases expand rapidly and separate from the magma, causing explosive bursts of tremendous magnitude equivalent to a significant dynamite explosion. As the video shows, the explosion hurls incandescent blobs of lava hundreds of feet into the air — and cause visible shockwaves.

Bursts of tremendous magnitude? As big as a dynamite explosion? Visible shockwaves? Mmmm?

The seismic activity surrounding the volcano isn’t showing the kind of activity you would expect from an eruption large enough to create visible shockwaves. 

We have this report that things are relatively calm:

The power of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption has remained stable for at least the last two days according to emergency coordinators in South Iceland. The volcanic cloud has swung round to the northwest of the glacier today, but there is little ash fall. The cloud has become lighter in colour, indicating more steam and less ash.  http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/04/23/iceland-volcano-update-2/

The GPS stations have provided important constraints on the evolution of the activity at the volcano. Thorvaldseyri (THEY) started moving south in the end of December followed by rapid deformation at Skogaheidi (SKOG) and Steinsholt (STE2) in the weeks prior to the eruption. Stations Solheimaheidi (SOHO) and Godabunga (GOLA) have also shown significant deformation due to the activity.

Two new sites were installed in the two days prior to the eruption on Fimmvörðuháls (20. March), FIM2, a quadripod station on Fimmvörðuháls, and BAS2, steel rod in Básar. Another steel rod site, SVBH, was installed north of THEY and closer to the summit crater on the 15. April, day after it started erupting.

BAS2 Monitoring Site

Hard to believe something so simple looking could provide so much data. Surprisingly though, the readouts aren’t showing the kind of shifts one would expect from an earthquake spewing lava.

BASAR - GPS Time Series

The U.S. Geological page shows absolutely no readings from this volcano. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php. A few quakes are being reported at Iceland Mets Physics Department at http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/englishweb/.

In opposition to Ice News saying things are calm, The Institute of Earth Sciences and various collaborators said in the most recent update, “Some fluctuations, with a peak shortly after midnight 22 April related to a small flood of meltwater. Since the onset of the explosive eruption the tremor has overall been gradually increasing, with superimposed fluctuations.” http://www.earthice.hi.is/page/ies_Eyjafjallajokull_eruption

Visible shockwaves aren’t uncommon, occurring with any volcano having an explosive eruption, Quick explained.(sic. Associate vice president for research and dean of grad studies at Southern Methodist University) On the smaller scale, Plinian events cause them and lead to ejecting blobs of lava. But Quick notes that such rumbles can have much greater ramifications.

“On the larger scale, they cause Plinian eruptions like Mt. St Helen in 1981,” he pointed out. via Fox News.

UFO or Solar Flare?

In the debate over whether or not the volcano is becoming more or less active, and how much invisible ash there is; there has been a frenzy of odd images and conspiracy.  Check out this UFO in the above photo, a black sphere shaped object sitting in front of the sun near the volcano at https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/ufo-near-iceland-volcano-on-webcam/

A perfect sphere or just the sun? A lense flare caught at just the right moment?

At this video from Earth Changes UFO’s Iceland Volcano Sky News V-Shape UFO Formation 18/04/10 one poster claims:

The Iceland volcano UFO was a single scout craft of the terraforming fleet, serving within the Federation. A craft of the member Star Nation of Tau Ceti…from the constellation of Cetus 11.8 light years away…..
So not actually a “formation,” as conjectured..

These boomerang or diamond-shaped scouts were similar types to those observed over Phoenix Arizona in 1997, known as the “Phoenix Lights.”

April 23, 2010. What is that OBJECT?

Eyjafjallajokull volcano 23th of April 2010. Ten Minutes Later.

Another UFO, a solar lense flare? What?

You can still watch the eruption through the clouds. Vodafon has imposed limited access unless you live in Iceland and the Mila.is webcams gets overloaded. Photos in ten minute increments are at http://picasaweb.google.com/102175391233488315229.

Here is a lovely shot of the sun over the volcano from this morning-sans UFO’s and lense flares.  Enjoy the weekend!

P.S.- There is a Quake Watch 2010 Forum at for the latest at http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread531038/pg118

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