The BBC and other international media reported today that an eruption of the Katla volcano in Iceland is “imminent”. Icelandic scientists and worried tourism chiefs have been quick to point out that it is impossible to say what “imminent” means: it could still be years.
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Iceland trying to calm Katla volcano eruption fears in international media
Posted on 02 December 2011.
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Amid simmering speculation, Iceland volcano keeps intentions quiet
Posted on 23 November 2011.
Iceland’s Katla volcano is always aquiver with seismic activity and local people and scientists have been waiting for an eruption for years — although they probably experienced them this year and in 1999 without even noticing.
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Did Iceland’s Katla volcano erupt under the ice this summer?
Posted on 27 September 2011.
An Icelandic geophysicist says that the Katla volcano probably already erupted this summer without breaking the surface of the glacier.
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Iceland volcano Katla being watched by scientists
Posted on 07 September 2011.
Earth scientists in Iceland and overseas are monitoring Katla, the south Iceland volcano located underneath the Myrdalsjokull glacier, trying to find out the reason behind a recent spate of small earthquakes.
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Katla volcano in Iceland remains dormant
Posted on 09 July 2011.
A glacial flood affected South Iceland last night, likely caused by draining of geothermal melt water from underneath the east side of the Myrdalsjokull glacier.
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Grimsvotn volcanic eruption in Iceland officially declared finished
Posted on 31 May 2011.
Scientists declared yesterday that the volcanic eruption at Grimsvotn in southeast Iceland is officially over. They set the date and time of the official end of the eruption at 07.00 on Saturday, 28th May.
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“Only steam” coming from Icelandic volcano
Posted on 25 May 2011.
A group of Icelandic tourist guides visited the Grimsvotn volcano overnight and came to the conclusion that the eruption is over, in their (openly-admitted) unscientific opinion. Scientists are not so bold in their diagnoses and are flying over the Vatnajokull glacier now to take measurements. They are expected back in Reykjavik in just over an [...]
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Not expecting a long eruption at Grimsvotn
Posted on 22 May 2011.
Rikke Pedersen, director of the Nordic Volcanological Centre Institute of Sciences, does not expect that the current volcanic eruption in southeast Iceland will last long.
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