According to Associated Press posted at Yahoo.com yesterday, there is fear that another volcano is ready to erupt in Iceland. The volcano, Katla, is under the Myrdalsjokull glacier, one of Iceland's largest glaciers. Because it would have to go through roughly twice the amount of ice that the current eruption had to go through, it would be a much larger eruption (and create more problems with the melting glacier as well as the ash cloud). The new volcano is about twelve miles from the current eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
Above is a map of Iceland I copied from LonelyPlanet. The current eruption and the anticipated eruption are in the bottom center of the map. The picture in my previous article about the recent volcanic activity in Iceland was taken west of Grindavik, which is in the lower left hand part of the map. Iceland sits where two tectonic plates meet and is an island powered by the 'green' energy of the volcanic activity where the plates meet and underneath the entire island. Other than the fact that another eruption will negatively impact air travel around the world, we need to consider also the impact it will have on the people living in the area.
Leave a comment