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What constitutes a volcanic eruption? Thinking about Iceland right now.

• SamBam 3y ago
  Not sure if you're referring to the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull that shut down air travel, but that was a VEI 4 eruption, and there have been more recent VEI 4 eruptions (the most recent, according to this, was the Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption in 2021) and so it doesn't show.
  • jw1224 3y ago
    There is literally one happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/live/LmqYgnsmSSA?si=b9jBEFDLE7QHry2_ https://www.youtube.com/live/LmqYgnsmSSA?si=b9jBEFDLE7QHry2_
    • SamBam 3y ago
      Sure, but I don't think it's even at VEI 4 yet. This site seems to be saying that VEI 4 is the max it could reach, if I'm understanding it right: https://gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=1000080&episodeid=7&eventtype=VO https://gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=1000080&episodeid=7&ev...
  • annoyingnoob 3y ago
    I guess the Smithsonian site is not updated regularly.