Locals say Katla will erupt within 7 Days and experts have recorded a 200% increase in katla activity!!!

Are these locals volcanologists?

No but these ppl are from the LINK:

The eruptions and ash disturbance from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano might be waking up its neighbor, Katla. If this is the case, the results could be globally devastating. Activity at Katla has risen 200% in the last two days.

The earthquake build up since the beginning of the year and subsequent eruptions at Eyjafjallajokull seem to be triggering the larger neighboring volcano, Katla. For the last two days, Katla has shown a dramatic 200% rise in activity. Geophysicists at Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences call Katla a vicious volcano that will be locally and globally damaging.

on 24?

is there a KATLA LIVE CAM that works?

"will" is a strong word

no

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last time it strongly erupted was 1918 - did the end of the earth occur ?

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source of above FACT -


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Katla erupted very powerfully in 1918 but there are evidence of smaller eruptions after that. Icelandic volcanologists are expecting another eruption in next few years so the Myrdalsjokull glacier and the Katla caldera are monitored quite closely. Just west of Katla and Myrdalsjokull glacier is another glacier, Eyjafjallajokull which is much smaller (50 km²).

The volcano Katla is subglacial and has a reputation as one of the most dangerous volcanoes of Iceland. Its peak reaches 1493 m in height and the extension of the glacier Mýrdalsjökull which lies over it reaches 595 km².

Mýrdalsjökull is the 4th biggest glacier in Iceland.

The crater of the volcano has a diameter of 10 km and the volcano normally erupts every 40 - 80 years. The last eruption took place in 1918, meaning scientists monitor the volcano very carefully. Since 930, 16 eruptions have been documented. The Laki craters and the Eldgjá are part of the same volcanic system, so it can be regarded as one of the most powerful in the world.

Before the National motorway no.1 had been constructed, people feared traversing the plains in front of the volcano because of the often occurring glacier runs and the deep rivers to cross. Especially fatal was the glacier run after the eruption of 1918.

Through the ages many farms have been swept away by Katla eruptions with that of 1311 being recorded as particularly damaging. A farmer named Sturla is said to have survived with his young son by clinging to an iceberg which later drifted back to shore. An eighteenth century eruption killed several people while others were stranded for days on mountains that turned to islands as floods engulfed the plains.

In Katla´s last eruption in 1918 icebergs the size of houses were seen floating out to sea. More recently in 1955 and 1979 there have been floods though no eruption that you could see.

the world economy wasnt dependent on air travel back then.

yes it will be devasting for all industrialized nations

different world then my friend

A number of news sites have posted links to the Iceland live cams and it now appears all their servers are down.
I can't get any of them to work.

Hope she blows on EarthDay, That will show them, who will blow out her candles.

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This one was working last night..............

Not many jet airliners in 1918.

Perhaps you should read about early air flight...

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Now the real question, is why are they preventing small engine aircraft from flying?!

Sexy Doom of the year!

Katla cam... doesn't seem to be working though :(

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Yeah, like Volcanologists have really been giving us the heads up.