We've been tracking this for about six months, and it seems like the Earth is shuddering on St. Patrick's, so we will mention it again on a quiet Sunday morning here.
Here's the latest -- on the new eruption, via The UK Guardian:
. . .Emergency teams worked through the night to bolster defensive barriers around the evacuated fishing town of Grindavik as lava from the fourth volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula since December flowed towards it.
After weeks of warnings that semi-molten rock was building up under the ground, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said the eruption, at 8.23pm local time (2023 GMT) on Saturday, had opened a nearly 3km-long fissure in the earth between two mountains.
Lava was flowing mainly south and south-east at a rate of about 1km an hour overnight and could reach the ocean, the IMO said. Defensive dykes and barriers were being reinforced to stop the “significantly wider” lava bed wrecking the main coastal road. . . .
Wild Earth sciences. In addition, another one of those shiny silver 12 foot tall monoliths was spotted last week, in Wales, atop a knoll called Hay Bluff. But it is pretty clearly a clever knock off, so we won't cover it (ref. 2020 and 2021 coverage). Onward!
In addition, the Buffs are waiting to hear if they've made the NCAAs -- or if they are relegated to the NIT, after a tough loss to Oregon in the last ever PAC-12 championship game. Sending some mo jo to. . . Boulder, now! And that's all the trivia I've got for the morning -- with a newly-replaced 2021 masthead, from their last March Madness NCAA berth. Grin.
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