{"id":165,"date":"2010-04-17T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/17\/extraordinary-video-of-a-jokulhlaup-in-iceland\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:50","slug":"extraordinary-video-of-a-jokulhlaup-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/04\/17\/extraordinary-video-of-a-jokulhlaup-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary video of a Jokulhlaup in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jokulhlaup is a sudden release of water from beneath a glacier.&nbsp; One of the key triggers for Jokulhlaup is the eruption of a volcanic beneath an icecap.&nbsp; It shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to hear that jokulhlaups have been triggered by the Eyjafjallajokull eruption that is causing such chaos across Europe (guess who was supposed to go to Hong Kong on Thursday&#8230;), and increasingly beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a jokulhlaup is not technically a landslide, but as these flood carry vast amounts of debris they are at the hyper-concentrated flow \/ debris flow end of the flood spectrum.&nbsp; On that basis I thought it reasonable to show this fantastic video of a jokulhlaup cascading off the margins of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano on 14th April 2010:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull glacial flood (j\u00f6kulhlaup) April 14th 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJII-u-41Lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Incredible!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A jokulhlaup is a sudden release of water from beneath a glacier.&nbsp; One of the key triggers for Jokulhlaup is the eruption of a volcanic beneath an icecap.&nbsp; It shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to hear that jokulhlaups have been triggered by the Eyjafjallajokull eruption that is causing such chaos across Europe (guess who was supposed to go to Hong Kong on Thursday&#8230;), and increasingly beyond. Now, a jokulhlaup is not &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,110,107],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iceland","tag-jokulhlaup","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}