March 31, 2010
I recently came across this live streaming web cam of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland.
Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption live stream. (seems to be down for maintenance)
Eyjafjallajökull seen from Hvolsvelli (working)
Eyjafjallajökull seen from Valahnúk (working)
Related post:
Volcano erupts in Iceland
Sorry for misspelling the glacier in the last post, my Icelandic is a bit rusty.
March 21, 2010
Erupting volcano in Iceland
A volcano near the Eyjafallajökull glacier in Iceland has erupted forcing over 500 people to evacuate the area. Usually volcano eruptions are preceded by earthquakes, but this time the eruption came as a big surprise. No damage or injuries have so far been reported. A state of emergency has been declared in the area near the 160 km² glacier.
The last time a volcano erupted near the glacier was in 1823.
March 3, 2010
NASA scientists have computed how Earth’s rotation should have changed as a result of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile on February 27.
Preliminary calculations by JPL reasearch scientist Richard Gross show that the length of an Earth day has been shortened by about 1.26 microseconds. Furthermore the quake should have moved Earth’s figure axis by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters).
More info:
Chilean quake may have shortened Earth days
March 3, 2010
The fish weren't this big.
The small Australian town of Lajamanu recently had a downpour of fish. Perhaps not quite what you expect in a town located far fron the ocean, lakes or other types of water.
The fish have probably, according to a senior forecaster at the weather bureau, been picked up by a tornado, gets deep-freezed at high altitude and then fall down as rain.
The fish rain phenomenon occured at twice on Thursday and Friday afternoon.
A local said to Northern Territory News “Thank god it didn’t rain crocodiles.”.
More reading:
It’s raining fish… no really
February 28, 2010
Xynthia hits Western Europe
A storm named Xynthia has hit Western Europe today. French Prime Miniter Francois Fillon has declared i a national catastrophe and the storm has claimed at least 45 lives in France.
The storm with hurricane-strength winds has brought down trees and power lines and caused heavy flooding in places. At least 1 million households were without electricity on Sunday afternoon. Winds up to 200 km/h were measured.
Deaths have also been reported from Spain, Portugal, Germany, England and Belgium, mostly caused by falling trees.
The storm Xynthia is moving north towards Belgium, Luxemburg and Scandinavia.
February 28, 2010
The earthquake outside of the coast of Chile did not just create destruction directly on land with more than two million people affected and around half a million destroyed houses. It also issued a tsunami warning and big waves were expected to hit Hawaii.
The evacuation from the coast line started quickly thanks to the tsunami warning and waves as waves of up to 2.5 metres could hit shore.
Fortunately the big tsunami didn’t appear and the waves were relatively small and did no damage.