Friday, March 5, 2010

Traffic jams

Iceland is still shaking or part of it with those earth quakes underneath the glacier Eyjafjallajökull. There are 20-30 earth quakes per hour and all of them of smaller magnitude than 3,0 except one that was 3,1. It might stop or it might result in an eruption. No one knows until (or if) it happens. It is exciting.
The people living on a nearby farm will get 20 minutes to flee from their farm if an eruption starts underneath the glacier. They are not worried. Earth quakes and volcanic eruptions are not that uncommon in Iceland.
If something big happens the area will be closed and no traffic allowed. It will not be like when I was 12 and we had an eruption in "nearby" volcano Hekla. My parents drove together with us kids out to the country to see the eruption. All the other families did the same thing. There was a traffic jam on the road to Mt. Hekla.

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