{"id":5720,"date":"2014-09-12T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T00:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:38:14","slug":"friday-september-12-2014-bardarbunga-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5720","title":{"rendered":"Friday, September 12, 2014 \u2014 B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, some peo\u00adple actu\u00adal\u00adly <em>do<\/em> walk away from an explo\u00adsion with\u00adout look\u00ading&nbsp;back.\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-walk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-walk.jpg\" alt=\"14-09-12 BLOG B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga walk\" width=\"412\" height=\"547\"><\/a>An Ice\u00adlandic vul\u00adca\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgist is obvi\u00adous\u00adly fed up with B\u00e1r\u00f0ar\u00adbun\u00adga\u2019s tem\u00adper tantrums. Those lava plumes are high\u00ader than most city skyscrapers.<\/p>\n<p>A land\u00adscape I walked on a few years ago no longer exists. Yes\u00adter\u00adday, sul\u00adphur diox\u00adide lev\u00adels peaked at 2600\u03bcg\/m3 (sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly dan\u00adger\u00adous) at Rey\u00f0ar\u00adfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, a fish\u00ading town on the east coast. When the lava flow reach\u00ades a small moun\u00adtain called Va\u00f0al\u00adda, its path will nar\u00adrow, with unpre\u00addictable results.&nbsp;The Sk\u00ed\u00adnan\u00addi water\u00adfall, a land\u00admark, appears to be doomed.&nbsp;The worst dan\u00adger remains pos\u00adsi\u00adble: a <em>j\u00f6kulh\u00adlaup<\/em>, or mas\u00adsive out\u00adburst of glacial melt, accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by tox\u00adic ash clouds<\/p>\n<p>Pho\u00adtos by Axel Sig\u00adur\u00f0s\u00adson \/ Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-fly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-fly.jpg\" alt=\"14-09-12 BLOG B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga fly\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-fly.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-fly-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-fly-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-sattelite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-sattelite.jpg\" alt=\"14-09-12 BLOG B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga sattelite\" width=\"1032\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-sattelite.jpg 1032w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-sattelite-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/14-09-12-BLOG-B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga-sattelite-1024x775.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1032px) 100vw, 1032px\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, some peo\u00adple actu\u00adal\u00adly do walk away from an explo\u00adsion with\u00adout look\u00ading&nbsp;back.\u2026 An Ice\u00adlandic vul\u00adca\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgist is obvi\u00adous\u00adly fed up with B\u00e1r\u00f0ar\u00adbun\u00adga\u2019s tem\u00adper tantrums. Those lava plumes are high\u00ader than most city sky\u00adscrap\u00aders. A land\u00adscape I walked on a few&nbsp;years&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5720\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,940],"tags":[1409,1405,1030,1408,1406,1407,1391],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-am-blog-2014","tag-axel-sigurdsson","tag-bardarbunga","tag-iceland","tag-jokulhlaup","tag-reydarfjordur","tag-skinandi","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7461,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions\/7461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}