MAJOR CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE IN SEPTEMBER 2010!!!

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Nick

Iceland has now issued a red alert to aviation:
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-v...ticles/nr/2947

I am supposing that "red alert" means "be prepared to divert at a moment's notice."

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Nick

Iceland has now issued a red alert to aviation:
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-v...ticles/nr/2947

I find it amusing that the BBC repeatedly calls the Bárðarbunga volcano "Bardarbunga". For instance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28913165

Changing an á into an a might just about be forgivable but ...

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by xilman

I find it amusing that the BBC repeatedly calls the Bárðarbunga volcano "Bardarbunga". For instance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28913165

Changing an á into an a might just about be forgivable but ...

The BBC, I believe, has always prided itself on getting spellings and pronounciations of foreign names right.

I always find their correspondents quite impressive with their apparently correct local pronounciations .... until I hear them doing it with Dutch language words!

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Brian-E

The BBC, I believe, has always prided itself on getting spellings and pronounciations of foreign names right.

I always find their correspondents quite impressive with their apparently correct local pronounciations .... until I hear them doing it with Dutch language words!

It's a bloody sight better than any other news organization of which I am aware.

They are not perfect, which is why I drew attention to this example.

[firejuggler]

California, 6.1 earthquake
http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs/Q...c72282711.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...282711#summary

[Nick]

5.7 earthquake in southern Greece:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...outhern-greece

Pictures of the volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gal...ea-in-pictures

Aerial photographs of lava from fissure eruption in Iceland:
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-v...ticles/nr/2947

[kladner]

The moment-to-moment account from Iceland is particularly interesting, for the details and analysis. Great pictures from both there, and Papua New Guinea. I'll have to try again for the web cam. It hasn't connected for me, as yet. I suppose that it might be getting lots of hits right now.

[Nick]

New pictures from Iceland:
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/20...tacular-photos

[kladner]

.....passengers on one IcelandAir flight managed to get the same experience at no extra cost, when their pilot took them on an brief detour, circling the volcano twice to allow them to enjoy the incredible, once-in-a-lifetime view.

A friend of mine claimed that once, on a trans-Atlantic Lufthansa flight, the pilot came on the PA. He announced, "We are now over Greenland. I will now give the passengers on the left side of the plane the view of Greenland." He then rolled the plane so the left wing was pointing straight down. "And now, I will give the passengers on the right the view of Greenland." You can guess what was to follow.

My friend, long deceased, was given to occasional embellishments on his stories. At this point I just have to accept this one as told.

[Nick]

Hawaii volcano lava threatens homes

Hawaii's Big Island has declared a state of emergency as a lava flow from Kilauea volcano is less than a mile (1.6km) from a residential community.
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the lava could reach the Kaohe Homesteads in about five to seven days.
Kilaeuea has been continuously erupting since 1983, but lava began flowing from a new vent on 27 June, moving 800ft a day.
Lava flows from the volcano previously wiped out neighbourhoods in 1990.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29084490

[Mark Rose]