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There's a lot of excitement online -- undocumented and AFAIK unjustified, at least on YouTube -- about Askja possibly about to erupt, up in Iceland. But there's also a volcanologist up there talking to media about it.
Could be interesting, but it's complex. I did a post on it, with links, etc., for further information.
In the meantime, check the source of whatever you might hear, and if it seems reliable, please do share it here. Askja last erupted in 1961, and per the Smithsonian GVP, most of its eruptions have been in the VEI 0-2 range, but it did have a VEI 5 in the 19th century and a VEI 6 back a few thousand years BC.
And apparently there is quite a bit of magma down there now but no one is certain yet what it's going to do, if anything (or in that one volcanologist's case, when it will get active).
Could be interesting, but it's complex. I did a post on it, with links, etc., for further information.
In the meantime, check the source of whatever you might hear, and if it seems reliable, please do share it here. Askja last erupted in 1961, and per the Smithsonian GVP, most of its eruptions have been in the VEI 0-2 range, but it did have a VEI 5 in the 19th century and a VEI 6 back a few thousand years BC.
And apparently there is quite a bit of magma down there now but no one is certain yet what it's going to do, if anything (or in that one volcanologist's case, when it will get active).