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Iceland earthquakes: Your rights if you are on holiday there or are planning to go. Eruption could be ‘hours or days' 14:49, Lydia Patrick. Icelandic authorities have completed the evacuation of ...
Páll Einarsson. 100 earthquakes hit Iceland since midnight. 09:11, Lydia Patrick. The strongest earthquake with a magnitude of 3.35 hit Vatnafjoll in South Iceland this morning at 5.56am, report ...
In its latest update, the forecaster said there were around 100 earthquakes on Monday, with a “swarm” near the town which lasted just over an hour before midnight.
The discoverer, Leonid Elenin, originally estimated that the comet nucleus was 3–4 km in diameter, [7] but more recent estimates place the pre-breakup size of the comet at 2 km. [8] Comet Elenin started disintegrating in August 2011, [9] and as of mid-October 2011 was not visible even using large ground-based telescopes.
There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenin travelling almost directly between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin would collide with Earth on 16 October. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating that none of these events were possible.
479P/Elenin, with provisional designation P/ 2011 NO 1 (Elenin), is a periodic comet with an orbital period estimated at 13.3 years. [ 4 ] The comet was discovered on 7 July 2011 [ 2 ] when the comet was 2.38 AU from the Sun and 1.4 AU from the Earth and had an apparent magnitude of 19.5.
Leonid Elenin works for the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics [1] and lives in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, Russia. [2] Leonid Elenin is best known for discovering the comet C/2010 X1 on 10 December 2010. [2] Elenin then discovered comet P/2011 NO1 on 7 July 2011. [3] As of 2019, Elenin had discovered five comets. [4]
Volcano eruption could damage Grindavik, says expert. 05:17, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar. Experts believe that a volcano eruption could heavily damage an Icelandic town of over 3,000 people near the ...