When I was a kid I had a morbid fascination with the movie Volcano (1997). I watched it a little too many times and I my most common nightmare is visually represented by the picture…
A fissure in the earth at the end of my street and then flowing magma …yeah there’s a good reason every kid knows the game “the floor is lava”
Guðjón Helgason, airport operator Isavia’s press officer, says that flight operations at Keflavík Airport are proceeding as usual.
pretty wild that this one can be so active, but also not affect even local air travel… whereas others can ground flights in Britain etc…
I’m not a volcanologist or anything, but surely you were taught there are different types of eruptions at school? The Pompeii one was some kind of super heated gas and ash cloud (again, not a volcanologist) that people had no chance of outrunning. The Icelandic one that shut airports blasted ash crazy high into the atmosphere, caused tonnes of disruption but not too much destruction. This one is a slow boiler - they had lots of advance warning, no toxic gas, no giant ash cloud - just a slow moving lava flow that is still causing destruction but hopefully no death.
i understand everything there is to know about volcanoes, and i still think it’s pretty wild
Ash levels matter; ash and engines really don’t mix well.
