BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 08 Jun 21 - 06:57 AM

If I have been able to plan my movements, I do not think I will ever board mass transit again without a mask. I think one effect of this pandemic will be that others will not only not think such a measure odd, but reasonable in the circumstances.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Jun 21 - 07:15 PM

I suspect that COVID and its variants will be with us for a long, long time, and we should get used to the idea.

That would mean frequent re-inoculation, like the annual flu shot but with higher stakes and, consequently, more nagging from the public health authorities (I hope).

And we would get used to bouts of mask-wearing and limitations on gathering and travel, depending on infection rates and the appearance of variants.

Kinda like the olden days, before mass immunization and antibiotics, when quarantine was not a figure of speech.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 06:48 PM

Hallo again , right this is not over don´t you forget that, the worst is yet to come, but we´ll get there in the end .
My hope is that Humanity will come stronger and united out of this pandemic
but my wish may not come true
from the Elf-land
all the best . Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 May 21 - 01:56 PM

Once the Trump nonsense was cleared out and our medical folks allowed to work unimpeded, things have moved forward quickly. Even with a sizable chunk of the population reluctant or recalcitrant about the vaccines, things are moving forward.

It took a lot of work to reach this point, and now that we're looking around we're seeing that much of the rest of the world isn't in as happy a place. India is a hot mass of smoky cremation pyres. Trump was no good at sharing with others and when Biden came into office he was busy trying to counteract the Trump effect. Now it is time to help others - and the fastest way would be to open up the patents so other countries can make the vaccine. This is a point where extremely rich and well-positioned American and European companies must be persuaded to share the bounty and help rid the world of COVID.

Easier said than done.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 May 21 - 08:35 PM

I'm living in 'congregate housing' at the moment, have been for over a year.

A very few members of the, shall we say, community have issues with things like anaphylaxis, did I write it wrong?
and have chosen not to be vaccinated;
the rest of us went and got our two doses.

I still think it is prudent to err on the side of caution.
And this state, Massachusetts,
after a scary lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic,
has mostly been careful. Although other places,
including Vermont, have been stricter yet
and have naturally had fewer cases.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 17 May 21 - 11:06 AM

Infection rates in Ontario are edging down after nearly six weeks of the latest lockdown, and the Premier has just announced that families will be allowed to go camping in provincial parks this summer if they stay away from other people.

I always thought that was the whole point of recreational camping, but I could be wrong.

The current stay-home order, the third (or maybe the fourth?), is scheduled to be lifted on 2 June. When the previous lockdown ended just before Easter, it took less than two weeks for the public health authorities to slam the province shut again as infection rates spiked in all the cities, the dreaded variants made their debut, and young people began showing up in ICUs.

So we'll see.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 21 - 08:30 AM

I have found the liberation of being fully vaccinated to be more gradual than I had imagined but its still fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 17 May 21 - 08:01 AM

got my first vaccination last Wednesday.

And did neither die nor got eaten by Bill Gates (or whatever these anti-vaccination people threaten will happen to vaccinated people ...)

Germany totals:
11.2% got both their vaccinations,
~26% got their first vaccination but not yet the second one.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 May 21 - 04:33 PM

The weather here in Annapolis, where I came for my nephew's graduation as his parents are in Tasmania behind closed borders, is absolutely marvy.
I am *on* my first leave-town-visit-people trip since before my hospitalization in Jan 2020, and the ones I took in the year before that, while I was circling the drain, I did not *enjoy* so, yay.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 May 21 - 03:47 PM

Hey, don't stop now,
keep checking in, everybody . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 10:55 AM

Apropos of the tragedy of the Texas ice storm,
there are new journalistic updates online
about the deaths from
carbon monoxide poisoning alone
-- a statewide scandal,
in that there are no requirements in place
for domiciles to have carbon monoxide detectors.
That story haunted me for hours after I read it yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 21 - 01:58 PM

True, Skarpi,
the North American press is making much of
the pandemic in India at the moment.

And where I am staying,
the variant versions are attracting infection AND attention.

Hope things get healthier soon in Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: robomatic
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 08:32 PM

In Alaska we have enough vaccine doses that tourists can get them. There is a significant number of people who will not take the vaccine for political or quasi-religious reasons. Restaurants are open. I am not aware of religious services yet, but that is on the horizon. Our local government has mandated mask wearing but indications are that this will not last through the summer.
Our infection rate is non-zero but I don't think it is high. Our death rate is close to zero.
I've been out to restaurants twice in the last week, for the first times for a year.
Starbucks is still doing everything through drive-thrus, but some local coffee shops are open for seating.

I believe we are as likely as anyone else to be getting the disease variants and I personally think we are not out of the woods due to these and the vaccine resistance of enough people to prevent us getting to a herd immunity. How many tourists we get this Summer will also be interesting. As of this moment we are apparently getting little to no cruise ship visits; and I believe Canada is limiting overland transit across her territory, which kinda puts us at the end of aviation only access.

Interesting Times!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 06:20 PM

I was looking for this word..better late than ever ... quarantine
, this is far from over, India , Us Europe, Sweden, Iceland , Norway Italia
Africa , South America and many more .
stay save
all the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 01:04 PM

Hallo all, well because of a foreign tourist infective of Covid, who would no respect staying for 5
Days in a four star hotel paid by the Goverment, we have now massive group of people who are infective of Covid, we should close the border.
All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Apr 21 - 06:37 PM

Yes, Charmion, the "cut direct" -- I learned about that,
not in USA American conversation, but in reading
neo-Regency novelists like Georgette Heyer.

The county where my clinic is, Berkshire County,
has been startled by the coronavirus variants.
Vaccinations are going well in the county,
and there had been no rising 'curve' in infection
until those pesky variants turned up.

But here in Massachusetts, at least where I have traveled,
people are cautious and courteous, and more power to them.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 19 Apr 21 - 10:23 AM

Skarpi, that's very sad. Fingers crossed ...

Ontario is deep in a third wave, with case counts spiking in large urban areas. The worst hit are the sectors of metropolitan Toronto where warehouses, factories and food-processing plants are concentrated, and the neighbourhoods where essential workers live. For the first time, some Canadian regional per-capita infection rates exceed rates in comparable regions in the United States.

The vaccination campaign is too slow and awkward for plenty of reasons, but I think the main one is inconsistent supply. When case counts spike in dense urban areas, especially among essential workers, vaccine doses allocated to thinly populated regions (like Huron-Perth, where I live) are redirected to crisis areas. Consequently, Toronto residents in their 40s are being vaccinated now, while in Huron-Perth the campaign is only now reaching healthy folks in the 65+ cohort.

For the record, I'm fine, and scheduled for my first vaccine dose on Friday.

The news media are full of stories about anger and resistance to the latest lockdown orders -- in Ontario, it's a stay-home directive with travel restrictions until mid-May -- but I note general compliance with mask and distancing rules here in Stratford. It used to be rude to cross the street on spotting another person (the "cut direct"), but now it's as routine as looking both ways before crossing. On heavily travelled arterial roads, the person facing traffic steps off the sidewalk into the curb lane.

When it's tolerably warm in the late afternoon, I sit on my porch with a book and a beverage, and wave at passers-by. When I'm out stretching my own legs, I see that many other people do the same thing. Everyone says hi, even the teenagers.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 19 Apr 21 - 09:30 AM

Everything is going bad here, spreading fast all because one person did not follow the rules
All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 21 - 11:08 AM

I'm visiting Norfolk County in Massachusetts,
outside of Boston (Suffolk County) for a few days.

Last night I stopped at a Walmart super-store
for some laundry detergent.
Don't know what Walmart is like in other regions,
but up here, face-masks were on every person in the store,
including families with small children.
And people were social distancing carefully.
That building can hold a lot of people, even
with the six-foot-distance rule.

Lot of working mothers getting ingredients for food and cooking.
And probably a few working fathers too.

Still quantities of businesses, especially the small ones,
who admit customers by appointment only.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 11:34 AM

I know, Skarpi. I think it would do the US well to share the vaccines sooner rather than later, or help with the manufacturing exceptions that the World Health Organization can grant so more of the vaccine can be prepared. There is a Canadian company asking for such an exception and I think the guy who owns it is eyeing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, that is already being manufactured by several companies (outsourced). The link is to the radio interview and the transcribed story. I've pasted the whole thing here in case you can't open it from your location.

A Canadian company challenges vaccine rules to increase access

For decades, the small Canadian company, Biolyse Pharma, has specialized in making injectable cancer drugs at its plant in St. Catharine’s Ontario.

When the pandemic hit, co-founder Claude Mercure watched from the sidelines as vaccine inequities unfolded globally. He wanted to help.

“We basically have the equipment. We have large bioreactors here that could deal with an industrial production,” he said. “We should leave no stones unturned.”

By his own estimates, Biolyse could make at least 20 million COVID-19 vaccines a year, specifically the kind of effective, single-dose shot that Johnson & Johnson developed and has gained emergency approval for in several countries and through the World Health Organization.

There’s just one catch: Johnson & Johnson holds the patent and the recipe — it controls who makes the vaccine, what to charge and where it goes. Biolyse wants to make the vaccine on its own, anyway, through what’s called a compulsory license under Canada’s Access To Medicines Regime. The company’s unconventional move is adding to a fierce global debate about who controls vaccine knowledge and production in a pandemic.

Earlier this year, Biolyse reached out to Johnson & Johnson by email to request permission to produce the vaccine, according to Mercure. Johnson & Johnson responded that they weren’t interested, he said.

That’s what led Biolyse to consider a compulsory license. In the mid-'90s, the World Trade Organization created rules that allow countries to issue compulsory licensing through their own legal and regulatory provisions. Canada’s specific rule has only been used once before — in the mid-2000s — to make HIV medicines to export to Rwanda.

If the Canadian government allows Biolyse to move ahead on this, it would mean the company could make the vaccine and export it — if they pay a fee to Johnson & Johnson. Mercure said it would be preferable to work directly with Johnson & Johnson, but this type of vaccine is based on a widely used technology and could be reverse engineered.

Jake Sargent, a Johnson & Johnson spokesperson, told The World in a statement that vaccine production involves “complex manufacturing processes,” and that there’s a limited number of places that can do this at quality and scale. Johnson & Johnson reviewed about 100 companies located around the world, he said, and selected 11 to enter into manufacturing agreements with, which would allow them to make more than a billion vaccine doses just this year, including doses directed to the global vaccine collaboration, COVAX, and the Africa Union.

Biolyse, which has never produced a vaccine before, is not one of those companies.

Biolyse’s efforts make for a powerful case study for testing out the global rules that were set up to respond to essential medicine shortages amid a public health crisis, according to Ana Santos Rutschman, an assistant professor of health law at St. Louis University.

“This means that something that was mostly a theory or legal framework that went unused, suddenly becomes a possibility,” Rutschman said. “We sometimes just need one, you know, one to lead the pack and then we can resort to this mechanism, which really has been underused by developed countries.”

To date, no country has issued a compulsory license for a vaccine in the pandemic. But such licensing is not unheard of, according to Carlos Correa, executive director of the South Centre, an intergovernmental agency that works with 54 countries.

Take the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic: “Some companies in developing countries started to produce the H1N1 vaccine because they were not available,” Correa said. “For instance, one in Argentina, in my own country, got an agreement with the government. The government supported the development of a plant in order for the production of H1N1 vaccines. So, this happens.”

Such a move faces a lot of opposition today from the European Union, the US, and drug developers themselves, who are mainly based in these regions, according to Rutschman.

“The concern is that if we do this with vaccines, what [is] next?” she said.

As in, could this challenge the model for developing drugs worldwide, which rewards companies with exclusive rights?

The deepening inequities in vaccine access and continuing surges in COVID-19 infections have prompted even more sweeping proposals. The World Health Organization created a system to encourage vaccine makers to voluntarily share their knowledge and technical know-how for making COVID-19 vaccines with other manufacturers. So far, no company wants to share.

South Africa and India have asked the World Trade Organization to lift all COVID-19 patents for the duration of the pandemic — a move that would more easily allow for compulsory licensing. While the proposal has gained support, many countries remain opposed, and it would require a consensus to advance.

In a recent letter to President Joe Biden, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America cautioned against lifting patents for vaccines: “Eliminating those protections would undermine the global response to the pandemic, including ongoing effort to tackle new variants, create confusion that could potentially undermine public confidence in vaccine safety, and create a barrier to information sharing. Most importantly, eliminating protections would not speed up production.”

Yet, other manufacturers around the world, from Pakistan to Bangladesh, have expressed interest in producing vaccines or vaccine components locally to improve access and be better situated for future disease outbreaks.

Related: Brazil saw its first COVID-19 death a year ago. Today the death toll nears 300,000.

The escalating vaccine shortages have leaders even in Europe assessing all options and taking notice of Biolyse, according to Kathleen Van Brempt, a Belgian member of the European Parliament and member of its trade committee.

“We need to learn from this crisis,” she said. “That’s why the Biolyse case is also very interesting to me. It will not deliver so much vaccines for the rest of the world or the European Union, but it’s an interesting case, because I want to know whether compulsory licensing is working. How do we make the world health system pandemic-proof?”

In Canada, it’s unclear whether Biolyse will have much success with their effort, or if they do get the green light, how long it will then take to manufacture and gain approval for their version.

Mercure said he’s not giving up. The world needs all the support and vaccines it can get.

“I would pursue this until I stop working for sure,” he said. “We feel that we have to do something.”

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 11:10 AM

Lucky you , can get vaccine right away, we have to wait and wait ...and wait....not every one are at the same table in this world does it .
take care
Skarpi .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 10:07 AM

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are now telling us that vaccinated Americans can travel within the US as long as we wear masks. Vaccinated Americans are at low risk while traveling but must still wear masks, the C.D.C. says.

Americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus can travel “at low risk to themselves,” both within the United States and internationally, but they must continue to take precautions like wearing a mask in public to avoid possibly spreading the virus to others, federal health officials said on Friday.

The new recommendations are a modest departure from previous advice. Federal health officials have been urging Americans not to travel at all, unless they absolutely must. That recommendation still applies, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters at a White House news conference on Friday.

New virus cases, hospitalizations and new deaths have declined significantly since their January peaks, but new infections have remained at a level that health officials say is too high. New deaths on average have only just dipped below 900 a day, according to a New York Times database, and hospitalization numbers have started to level off.

With the case increases in recent weeks, federal health officials are concerned about the potential impact of easing restrictions. Scientists are not yet certain whether, or how often, vaccinated people may become infected, even briefly, and transmit the virus to others. A recent C.D.C. study suggested that it may be a rare event, and the agency said on Friday that about 101.8 million people — nearly one-third of the total U.S. population — had received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Until that question is resolved, many public health officials feel it is unwise to tell vaccinated Americans simply to do as they please. Yet at the same time, Dr. Walensky said on Friday, the agency wished to acknowledge a growing body of evidence suggesting that the risk to vaccinated travelers themselves is comparatively low.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 06:21 PM

Hallo , again some country s are closing down again , now in Iceland people have to go to special hotel for five days , all people who are from red and orange zone , shjæsss this is not over far from it , people are getting tired of this sorry I say this china shit ....these words has nothing to do with people from china please take care all , and now people who already got vaccined are infected with Covid ? what is going on ...don´t take the mask off if you go with many people, but what do I do at home , well I have work , and between work days , I make music read books go to the store and take long walks , be with my grandchildren , I play and sing folkmusic , but I am studying more music , little bit of jazz , rockabilly, country and bluegrass ..so what do you do ?
stay healthy , all the best from Skarpi .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 09:58 AM

As the US races to inject vaccines into arms, Americans race to see if they can't manage one more surge of the virus, apparently for Old Time's sake. These new variants are part of that mix.

Here in Texas we're still figuring out what plants are completely dead and which may sprout from the roots again. And reports are out that the arctic blast named "Uri" by The Weather Channel that wiped out a lot of our landscaping also killed more people than Hurricane Harvey (named by the National Weather Service). 111 so far. Everything from hypothermia and asphyxiation (carbon monoxide) to vehicle accidents and slips and falls. And they're not finished counting, apparently.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Mar 21 - 02:18 PM

We had an amazing thunderstorm at dawn today. Thunderstorms here are usually an afternoon, summer, phenomenon.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: JennieG
Date: 27 Mar 21 - 07:21 AM

It was indeed Mr Jinx, with Pixie and Dixie.

"I hate you meeces to pieces......!"

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Mar 21 - 04:44 AM

Mr. Jinx ?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 10:26 PM

Keep those check-ins coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 01:50 PM

Meeces! That brings back memories
of the Saturday morning cartoon show
with the cat who said
I Hate Mieces to Pieces!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 10:24 PM

A few weeks ago our geriatric cat - Bianca, aged 18 and a bit years - caught a mouse. At least, we presume she did; woke up to find a deceased mouse under the coffee table, and we do, after all, have a cat. Ergo, cat killed mouse.

We caught another in a trap last week after Bianca chased it. Two mice is two too many, but we aren't as badly overun with meeces here as some people are.

It is raining. Having grown up in this town and lived through many floods, there is a reason why we bought on a hill well away from the river.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Helen
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 09:47 PM

Hi Sandra,

I tried to find a news article which mentioned all of the areas of NSW being flooded. It's mostly along the whole of the east coast of Australia but also there is a swathe of rain from the top west down to the bottom east of the country.

And I forgot to add the
mouse plague to the list of disasters, but it's possible the floods might help to reduce the number of mice. Can they swim?

The mouse plague came about because the drought had broken and the farmers were finally getting some healthy crops growing.

How much disaster can a koala bear?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 08:35 PM

it's not just in Sydney's west where 3 great rivers create the ideal conditions (video - Bathtub effect, The extreme danger of Hawkesbury-Nepean floods) & housing has spread over the floodplains. Here on the edge of the CBD we have had intense rain falls - multiple episodes of pouring rain over the past few days & nights, & local flooding in nearby suburbs.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Helen
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 05:51 PM

After a long, long period of drought, then bushfires, then COVID, now a large area of Australia is being flooded.

NSW flooding to intensify

Queensland

It's even raining heavily in the centre of Australia at Alice Springs and Uluru. That's very unusual.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mark Clark
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 05:29 PM

Checking in from Eastern Iowa, USA. Have been worried about Skarpi. Glad to learn he is under no immediate threat.

– Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 05:08 PM

We now have active threads about
Iceland volcanic activity
and USA's periodic cicadas.
What else is happening out there?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Mar 21 - 10:26 PM

Effusive rather than explosive:
many thanks for that distinction.

It's still unsettling to read that
an interval of 900 years has passed since
the last time of volcanic activity at that site.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Mar 21 - 08:22 PM

Iceland volcano: eruption under way in Fagradalsfjall near Reykjavik ... While Iceland’s Keflavik international airport, the country’s largest, and the small fishing port of Grindavik are only a few kilometres away, the area is uninhabited and the eruption is not expected to present any danger.

Volcanic eruptions in the region are known as effusive eruptions, where lava flows steadily out of the ground, as opposed to explosive ones which spew ash clouds high into the sky. However, all flights in and out of the airport have been halted.

The Krysuvik volcanic system has been inactive for the past 900 years, according to the meteorological office, while the last eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula dates back almost 800 years to 1240.

But the region has been under increased surveillance for several weeks after an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 was registered on 24 February on the outskirts of Reykjavik, followed by an unusual number of smaller tremors – more than 50,000, the highest number since digital recordings began in 1991.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 09:59 PM

Not to speak of the electric bills --
like something out of an English satire, maybe Dean Swift!


And here in the eastern U. S.,
Brood X of the seventeen-year cicadas
is set to spend the spring and summer
in its reproductive cycle,
and they say it's going to be massive.

Especially Washington DC for some reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 09:07 PM

A month after Winter Storm "Uri" the number who died (so far - I won't be surprised of solitary homeowners turn up eventually having died during the cold) is 57. Dallas Morning News story:

Dozens of Texans died as a result of last month’s brutal winter storm that knocked out power and water to millions of people across the state, according to preliminary data the Department of State Health Services released Monday.

According to the state, at least 57 deaths were attributed to the mid-February storm, with 25 of them in Harris County.

Only three of the deaths reported by the state were in North Texas; two occurred in Collin County and one was in Grayson County.

Those numbers are likely to grow: The Dallas County medical examiner’s office previously said that it was investigating whether 17 deaths were linked to the storm, including at least three potential deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Most of the 57 deaths verified as caused by the storm were the result of hypothermia, according to the state agency. There also were multiple deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning, falls, fire, medical equipment failure and traffic accidents.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 08:51 PM

‘Swarm’ of 20,000 earthquakes rattles Iceland - 2800 on Sunday alone ... “People in Reykjavik are waking up with an earthquake, others go to sleep with an earthquake,” Thorvaldur Thordarson, a professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, told the New York Times. “There’s a lot of them, and that worries people, but there’s nothing to worry about, the world is not going to collapse.”
The Icelandic government said that the earthquakes may signal an imminent volcanic eruption in the southwestern region of Iceland, where volcanoes are common. There are more than 30 active volcanoes throughout the country ...

... The Civil Protection and Emergency Management’s Science Board in Iceland later contradicted the government’s warning of volcanic activity.
“It is the scientists’ assessment that the latest data does not indicate magma moving rapidly closer to the surface,” the board said in a statement. “While this situation lasts the likelihood of an eruption is not high, but a possible rapid change in the status must be assumed.”
According to the board, the “likeliest scenarios” include a decrease in earthquake activity in the “next few days or weeks”; an increase in the swarm with quakes up to 6.0 in magnitude near Fagradalsfjall; an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude near Brennisteinsfjoll; and potentially some “magma intrusion” near Fagradalsfjall, which is unlikely to threaten the population.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 04:00 PM

The magma has 1000 mtr left to the surface, are we getting another eruption like 2014 ? Stay save. Kv Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 21 - 02:42 PM

The graphics (charts) are beautiful in that article that Donuel linked to about the Icelandic quakes. I find it interesting how often weather people end up reporting on these geological events, though geology and weather are generally not linked. But with the atmosphere being impacted by eruptions, and because weather bureaus are the most up-to-date sources of reliable information on things like weather, they step up to the task.

Our weather here in Texas has improved significantly and now we're into the pollen season, though many plants that would be budding now were damaged or killed in the mid-February freeze. There are still plenty of large oak trees around to pollenate the air supply (and upset my sinuses).

Yesterday I mowed the lawns for the first time in 2021. Mostly weeds so far, the turf grass is still dormant. And I have to go out and trim out dead brush from many of my shrubs and see what sprouts back from the roots.

Last year at this time I was beginning to go out and start driving after knee replacement surgery, so this year I'm hoping to get a lot more done that was too painful before.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Mar 21 - 09:51 AM

Thought of you, skarpi, npr was talking about no covid in Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 10:13 PM

Skarpi, here's hoping the Mudcat still has YOU tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 03:33 PM

Jahérna ? big one in New Zealand hope you are all save there ,
we had 2584 earthquakes last 48 hours over here , and its´not going away
people are getting tired , both Covid and then this , all though Iceland is now at the moment Covid free , unless at the border where people who are coming from abroad have Covid 19 , well all around the world we have trouble , so stay save , watch your health , watch out for your love one´s
what you have today , you may not have tomorrow..
all the best Skarpi Iceland .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 05:30 PM

meanwhile on the other side of the world -
New Zealand tsunami warning: evacuations follow swarm of earthquakes

Tsunami warning for Norfolk Island after three earthquakes hit near New Zealand Residents on Norfolk Island are being warned to move to higher ground after three earthquakes near New Zealand triggered a tsunami warning for the south Pacific territory.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 07:40 PM

thanks for the link, Donuel. 14000 earthquakes is not something I can visualise or understand

I have once felt an earthquake way back in 1989. I was at work & near the windows when the world moved & the lights went out - some of my colleagues were in inner rooms, & some must have been in the toilets or lifts. Everything was back to normal for us very quickly as Sydney was about 150 km (100 miles) from the epicenter, but 13 people died in Australia's worse earthquake disaster

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 02:55 PM

https://www.severe-weather.eu/news/iceland-earthquake-swarm-reykjanes-eruption-fa/

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 02 Mar 21 - 10:29 PM

Newest update, 14000 Earthquakes in just over a week and magma is rising in a champer, so likely there is a eruption coming up near our capital Reykjavík. All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 08:14 PM

Keep checking in!