Icelandic Volcano Pics

[c0r]

Strangely enough... just two weeks ago, I was looking around the web and I ran across a pic of a solitary house built on the slope of an ancient volcano caldera in South Iceland. I then pulled it up in Google Earth and showed my daughter.

Come to find out, this volcano is fairly close to that house.

Check it out!

http://www.zamaanonline.com/images/a-house-in-the-middle-of-an-island.jpg

http://img269.imageshack.us/i/island1j.png/

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1918/icelandhouseandvolcano.gif

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=63.46795,-20.17622&spn=0.007333,0.027273&t=h&z=16

Supposedly, the country of Iceland gave it to Bjork for being a popular Iceland national.

The wind is actually blowing the ash plume away from the house, but if the winds change, I'd say Bjork's house is fugged.

that is pretty cool!

[natty]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html

[Jase]

So Volcanoes can burn you, choke you and shock you all at once. Cool.

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[SorthNarolina]

I'm no Vulcanologist but is that lightning? Are eruptions electrically charged?

yep, lighting can come of massive tornadoes too. It's crazy.

[Hawk]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html

awesome!

brings back memories of when Mt St. Helens blew...and even in southern Alberta where I lived, the ash was incredible...and the sunsets! I was at camp and had no idea what had happened other than we woke up to what was almost looking like a snowy morning!!!

[Jangler]

http://reversemonster.org/tag/weird-faces-in-iceland-volcano-pics/

[Jangler]

From space...

[Kurb]

I'm no Vulcanologist but is that lightning? Are eruptions electrically charged?

What does Spock have to do with this ?

[dimbee]

No worse than usual.

That's actually not true this year. And, apparently, glacial melting is to blame!

[Darth Biscuit]

That's actually not true this year. And, apparently, glacial melting is to blame!

Yeah, there's a whole editorial about this on CNN today.... as opposed to the other stuff I've read on this that says this eruption is within the normal cycle of these two volcanoes.

[Purity-Control]

Amazing some of those look other worldly.