Iceland’s Meteorological Office says two earthquakes have rocked the caldera of Katla, one of the country’s largest volcanos.
The quakes measured magnitude 4.2 and magnitude 4.5.
Gunnar Gudmundsson, a geophysicist, said Monday that authorities are monitoring the situation and described it as ‘a little bit unusual,’ but said there’s ‘no sign’ of an eruption…
Named after an evil troll, Katla typically awakens every 80 years or so and last erupted in 1918.
Historically, low sunspot activity correlates with ice ages and apocalypses, we are about to enter a likely Maunder Minimum, and one way ice ages happen is volcanic activity. It is not impossible volcanic activity will hit as a part of the package, spewing enough material into the atmosphere to add to the reduced solar energy, and the strangely aligned economic apocalypse. Clearly, I would take a major eruption as a sign the end was nigh, and speed up my preparations.
In other good news, we almost got hit by an asteroid:
Some close calls are enough to keep you awake at night, especially if they concern huge chunks of flaming rock smashing into the planet.
Astronomers marked one such close shave at the weekend after an asteroid larger than a Blue Whale whizzed between the Earth and the moon – a hair’s breadth in astronomical terms.
Brazilian sky watchers had only just discovered the asteroid, called 2016 QA2, the day before it zoomed by within 50,000 miles (80,000 km) of Earth.
War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death-by-a-whole-medley-of-other-means. All horrific, and yet we have come so far, they are all that can save the greatness of humanity.
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Traditionally it is thought that ice ages occur slowly with rapid warming. So about 100K years dropping into the Ice Age and then about 10K years coming out up to about our global temp today. The opposite view says we go in VERY FAST (see movie The Day After Tomorrow for a dramatization of this). But methods are plausible, and I see no reason from outside the field and a typical lifespan of about 0.0100K years of both occurring – although obviously not at the same time.
Anyhow, lack of solar activity and increase high altitude albeido would argue for The Day After Tomorrow, and we could see a new ice age form in a decade, not 100K years
That is really the scary prospect, because if, say Connecticut is going to be suddenly getting enough snowfall per year to eventually be under 3 miles of ice, as it once was, there is really no practical way to survive self-sufficiently there. So you have mass migration south, including from densely populated cities filled with criminals, to limited amounts of land, with completely disrupted food production and distribution all around
Now that’s an Apocalypse.
Re: the Southern Migration
Thank God that we have got
The neutron bomb, and they have not.
Possibly the funniest Haiku I have seen yet.
There’s a correlation between Earth’s decreasing magnetic field strength and/or Earth’s magnetic field reversals and mass volcanic eruptions/extinctions.
https://evolutionaryleaps.com/the-book-2/
Robert W. Felix found these by studying Ice Ages. Ice Ages typically happen in just a few years and maybe even a year. An inch of rain equals 12 inches of snow. So you can readily see that a few inches of rain in the winter could pile up quick. If it piles high enough and the Sun is in a lowered state quickly it just keeps piling up. Robert has a book on the coming Ice Age also.
https://iceagenow.info/
For the last 2 million years or so we’ve had cycles of roughly 90,000 years of ice and 10,000 years of warmth. We’re way over due for an ice age by a thousand years or so.
I wonder if the Sunspots dying out affects the magnetic fields on Earth which in turn forces events that make the Earth more likely to have volcanic eruptions. Maybe a stronger magnetic field helps hold the molten core together or organize it in some way and when this field weakens turbulence causes volcanic eruptions. The Earth’s magnetic field definitely has a correlation with earthquakes so the notion is not completely far fetched.
http://geomag.usgs.gov/research/geomagnetism-earthquakes.php
There are also magnetic vortexes that reach from the Sun to the Earth. I believe a satellite monitoring something else found them and it was a big surprise. So if the organizing field of the Sun goes down it effects the Earth possibly starting an Ice Age. Of course this is just crass speculation.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30oct_ftes/
That is possible. I’ve always felt the solar wind winds up the dynamo. Either way, things look very interesting.