Home/BlogThreatening earthquake activity for many days finally culminated in an eruption of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland early this morning.
Bardarbunga volcano webcam screenshot at 7:33 am August 29, 2014.
The eruption seems to be mainly lava at the surface, but a larger explosive ash eruption is still possible, which is what would be required to have any effect on global climate.
A more spectacular eruption occurred in Papua New Guinea about the same time. Tavurvur volcano erupted with an ash cloud reaching to 60,000 ft. altitude, a beautiful photo of which was taken by Joyce Lessimanuaja and tweeted by Shelley Hendel (@shelleyjlh):
Eruption of Tavurvur volcano in Papua New Guinea on the morning of 29 August 2014.
This eruption barely showed up on NASA MODIS imagery this morning, so I doubt it will result in any climate effects, either.
There is also some pretty awesome video of the Tavurvur eruption, which was very fiery:
