"Okay, what's waiting for us today?"

"What live? Brother, you're sleeping too deeply. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"What do you mean?" Franklin was a little confused.

"Wait, didn't you find anything?"

"What the hell did you find?"

"Well, I underestimated your sluggishness."

Patting Franklin on the shoulder, Rama pulled Franklin out and said angrily: "Damn, bastard, ****, our warehouse has collapsed, and our goods are all gone......"

When Franklin was dragged out of the house by Rama, he looked in amazement at the street outside the door, an unprecedented crack across the street, and he couldn't see where it extended to the left.

And the streets were full of people, all with uneasy looks on their faces.

"It's ......"

"Earthquake."

Rama cursed, "A damn earthquake has destroyed our warehouse, it's all out of stock, and Kos won't let us go." ”

"Earthquake, my God."

If Franklin could look down from a height of a few hundred meters, he would see more than one crack in the edge of Los Angeles, and a sudden shock shook the whole city, and the sound of fire trucks whistling throughout the city rushed towards the place where the fire had been caught by the earthquake.

……

……

The rugged countryside road, where the farm is in the middle of the Icelandic summer, is as lush and tranquil as ever, attracting tourists from all over the world every year, such as Dr. Main, who saw several tourists out of the car window, holding a DSLR to take pictures of the beautiful scenery of the farm.

He sighed, withdrew his gaze from the window, and fell back to the tablet in his hand, his eyes full of worry.

After about 20 miles along the farm road, you can see that you are getting closer and closer to Katla Volcano, Iceland's main volcano, which is frozen all year round, in stark contrast to the turquoise grasslands and forests below, and just below this volcano, Dr. Main's destination is about to arrive.

"Woohoo......"

The beat-up pickup truck slammed to the brakes, nearly letting the tablet in Dr. McNe's hand fly out.

"I'm sorry, it's time for this car to retire."

The old man who took off his hat and smoked a cigar said this without any apologies.

"Thank you, Curry."

"You're welcome old friend, I'll go back first, if you want me to pick you up, you'll call, of course, I can't guarantee that I will have time at any time, you'd better call me in the afternoon."

"I see, help me say hello to Nanlin."

Pulling the car door and walking down, someone from the observation station in the distance happened to come out, and when he saw the figure of Dr. Maine, he immediately said with joy: "Dr. Maine, why are you here so soon?" ”

"Haha, Ryan, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"yes, Dr. Maine, the last time we saw each other was three years ago."

Walking over to help Dr. McNe with his suitcase, Ryan said, "I thought you were going to come over tomorrow, but I'm ready to pick you up tomorrow...... Why not give me a call ahead of time? ”

"I know you're busy, so I won't bother you, Curry sent me over when he was free."

Following Ryan towards the observatory, Dr. McNe said as he walked, "When did this anomaly begin?" ”

"About two weeks ago."

Pushing open the door of the observatory, Ryan clapped his hands and said, "Jack, Bose, you two come here, this is Dr. McNe......"

"Dr. McNe, these are my two assistants."

"Hello."

"Hello."

Seeing the restrained appearance of the two young men, Dr. Maine said hello, perhaps it was his kind expression that made the two young men look a lot more relaxed.

"Dr. Maine, do you need to rest first, or ......"

"Let's get to the point as soon as possible, I'm not tired yet."

"Alright, Dr. McNe, please come here."

Carrying Dr. McNe to the five monitors connected in parallel, Ryan manipulated the mouse to the interface he needed.

"Since two weeks ago, we have been monitoring a series of thousands of small earthquakes near Katla ...... magnitude 1-2 with an epicenter 7-10 km below the Katla formation."

On the monitor, the Hengxing radar image, which monitors the volcanic signal, shows that the earth's crust in this area is undulating like a wave, although the undulation is not large, only about 1-2 centimeters, but in Dr. McNe's eyes, it is undoubtedly a clear sign that the pressure is accumulating underground.

Magma from the depths of the earth was moving, and while he couldn't now determine where it was heading, there was no doubt that the pressure would be released somewhere.

Dr. Maine glanced at the specific time, epicenter location, depth of the hypocenter, magnitude, and epicenter distance of these earthquakes, and moved to another display screen, where the perpendicular waveforms and spectral eigenquantities of the P and S waves were recorded, which can be used as short-term forecasting indicators.

For a normal continental plate, these thousands of earthquakes are really insignificant and normal, but if these thousands of small earthquakes occur in a volcanic area, then they must be noted.

"The last two eruptions of Katla were in 1955 and 1999, right?"

Dr. McNe looked back at Ryan.

"Well, yes, neither eruption destroyed the 10-kilometer-diameter ice of the crater."

Ryan nodded.

"But it's less than eight miles from Eyjafjallajökull glacier."

Dr. Maine's expression was solemn.

The last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010, the result of which 100,000 flights to Europe were cancelled, and the ash drifted over the continent, turning the sky gloomy and sunless.

The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier volcano, eight miles east of here, is a stone's throw away.

"Dr. Maine, you said a few years ago that the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano was just the beginning, and that the pressure in the earth's crust was not fully released?"

"Yes, I don't think Eyjafjallajörjölla will release all the pressure, I have studied all the records from 934 to the present, Eyjafjallajökulla usually erupts a few years earlier than Katla Volcano, and this guess has been verified five or six times before and after, and after that eruption, I have recorded the tilt meter many times, and I have found that the slope of Kartra has been changing tendencies......"

"I think so too, Dr. McNe......"

"Knock knock ......"

Before Ryan could finish speaking, the whole room began to shake, and the two of them, who were geophysicists, naturally understood what was going on in an instant.

Earthquake!

And it was at least an earthquake of magnitude 4 or higher.

Ryan shouted, "Quick, get out." ”

Outside is a flat grassland, which is definitely much safer than hiding inside the house.

Without speaking, Ryan pulled Dr. McNee and ran outside, but a few people ran out of the door before the sudden earthquake stopped.

The outside was still the same grassland, but the heavy atmosphere in the air made the eyes of the two of them full of heaviness.

"Let's go."

Without further ado, Dr. Maine ran back to his room.

More than 60 seismographs are located throughout the Volcano Observatory near Katla and Eyjafjallajökull, as well as a dense network of sensors and magnetometers to accurately record all earthquakes.

After being busy for more than ten minutes, Ryan looked at the data on the monitor and said: "The total scalar seismic moment magnitude is converted into a moment magnitude mw of about 4.8, and the strike of fault node plane 1 is equal to 120°/dip angle is equal to 30°/slip angle is equal to 75°; Node 2 strike is equal to 310° / inclination 57° / slip is equal to 95°. The depth of the centroid of the waveform fit is 9 km. ”

It was a 4.8 magnitude earthquake.

“……”

Dr. Miles thought for a moment, and suddenly said, "Where's the phone?" I'm going to contact the Met Office. ”

"Uh, Dr. Main?"

"They should be able to get a Coast Guard plane, right? Let's go to the ice sheet near Eyjafjallajökull. ”

(To be continued.) )