The monsters wakes up ! Katla Hekla Iceland Dead Zone and rift as uniform system ! A lot of others worldwide !

surely that would create false positives, not silence quakes?

don't forget, they have warned about the possibility of a mag7+ quake right on the TFZ

calm before the storm?

i'm wondering, seeing as it's only just over 1000 miles from me, could a big enough quake actually be felt at that distance?

[link to www.brucesussman.com]

that quake was felt 1000 miles away. it was a 5.6

a mag 7+ quake is about 50 times stronger. good chance we'll actually feel any mag7+ quake in the UK then?

Nah.. i doubt it.. it is much water in between

Regardless, the wind calmed down a lot two hours ago and Katla is still going crazy:

[link to www.simnet.is]

The site has been down a fair bit lately but it normally shows no data at all, maybe this time they are showing the old data but not registering anything new? Then again, periods of quiet are not unusual.

[link to www.simnet.is]

yep

totally black now

as is the chart 60 miles west of Katla too..

[link to www.simnet.is]

[link to www.simnet.is]

weather is calm ish

[link to en.vedur.is]

John Seach@johnseach
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Magnitude 7.5 earthquake 94 km west of Tlevak Strait volcano, Alaska 4 January 2013.

Seems like this today EQ 7.5 (up to 7.7 ) in British Columbia strongly triggered geyser's activity in Yellowstone
[link to www.nps.gov]

Every seismograph in Britain shock for a good hour or more. It must have affected the entire planet.

Here is just one.

[link to www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk]

We are talking about different things. You're talking about the charts on a seismometer, which is really all over the world was "black". And I'm talking about the increasing activity of the geysers in Yellowstone, which was caused by the influence of seismic waves come down there (the place of the earthquake, by the way, relatively not too far). The influence of seismic wave on that lies beneath geysers - that is, on the magma chamber supervolcano. In fact, these trigger effect on the Yellowstone have been repeatedly noted also before, there are research papers on the subject.

A lot aftershocks (?or foreshocks?) after this eq in the same point? only 18 km from Etna

[link to cnt.rm.ingv.it]
Event-Id Data Ora (UTC) Lat Lon Prof (Km) Mag Distretto Sismico

7226231350 2013/01/05 12:15:35 37.879 14.728 8.5 Ml:2.5 Monti_Nebrodi
7226230000 2013/01/05 10:00:05 37.875 14.737 9.9 Ml:2.1 Monti_Nebrodi
8226229380 2013/01/05 08:58:19 55.28 -134.67 10 MW:7.7 Southeastern Alaska, United States
7226216810 2013/01/04 12:01:32 37.875 14.701 9.8 Ml:2.1 Monti_Nebrodi
7226216500 2013/01/04 11:30:31 37.867 14.724 9.7 Ml:2.5 Monti_Nebrodi
7226216100 2013/01/04 10:50:20 37.89 14.697 13.4 Ml:2.8 Monti_Nebrodi
7226215720 2013/01/04 10:12:04 37.884 14.708 8.7 Ml:2.5 Monti_Nebrodi
7226215230 2013/01/04 09:23:26 37.875 14.746 8 Ml:2.2 Monti_Nebrodi
7226215010 2013/01/04 09:01:05 37.884 14.72 12.4 Ml:2 Monti_Nebrodi
7226214880 2013/01/04 08:48:44 37.878 14.699 16 Ml:2 Monti_Nebrodi
7226214510 2013/01/04 08:11:45 37.868 14.727 9.8 Ml:2.5 Monti_Nebrodi
7226214380 2013/01/04 07:58:04 37.867 14.714 9.1 Ml:2.4 Monti_Nebrodi

Of course, Alaska (BC) in this list is mistake)

Hawaii
Unfortunately, current status not available now:
[link to hvo.wr.usgs.gov]
"Sorry, no connection to database ... "

but today events there deserve to be mentioned, so
[link to volcans.blogs-de-voyage.fr]
An M 4.4 earthquake shook Big Island today at 14 :37 (UTC). The epicentre was located in the Royal gardens subdivision at a depth of 9.1 km. The event occurs at a time when Kilauea is going through a long deflation episode with the level of lava within Halema’uma’u at its lowest. Lava breakouts can be seen on the coastal flat with weak ocean entries. One can wonder whether Kilauea is not about to change its behaviour...
The latest earthquake has incited HVO to issue a warning about the instability of the delta where lava arrives in the ocean. A slight earthquake may cause it to collapse together with the reckless people who would be standing on it. The short video clip here below (November 2005) confirms that the warning should be taken seriously!

Iceland
New swarm in TFZ, the most interesting now this one:
Saturday
05.01.2013 17:28:45 66.587 -17.840 6.5 km 1.7 90.01 9.0 km NE of Grímsey
[link to en.vedur.is]

As usual (it continues each day over year in all seasons)
huge positive temperature anomalies in the Canadian Arctic coast: Sachs Harbour above normal by about 30 degrees
[link to 193.7.160.230]

south of Greenland also with big positive anomaly

Below information is very entertaining. Absolutely not sure, that it will confirmed, but ... At the present time, with daily geological surprises... I would not be surprised if it will true

Google translation of yesterday article from the Georgian information portal
[link to www.apsny.ge]

Volcanic eruption damaged fiber optic cable Russia - Georgia
04.01.2013 23:08

From the Black Sea at 61 kilometers from the Georgian port of Poti on Friday raised portion of fiber-optic backbone cable Poti-Novorossiysk and Sochi (included in submarine cable system "Georgia-Russia"), which was damaged on 23 December in a volcanic eruption, said to " Interfax" executive director Foptnet Kote Samushia.

"The rise of the damaged cable at a depth of 1300 meters the crew carried a special ship that was called from the Italian port of Catania and began to work on January 3," - said K.Samushiya.

According to him, on a raised cable is clearly marked with signs of fire, which destroyed the polyethylene and damage the protective shield. "Experts believe that it is caused by an underwater volcanic eruption, recorded on December 23 in 18 hours 51 minutes, after about half an hour after the incident on the day of the earthquake in the Black Sea," - said K.Samushiya...


Location of mentioned in this article December EQ
[link to www.emsc-csem.org]
Magnitude Mw 5.7
Region BLACK SEA, OFFSHORE GEORGIA
Date time 2012-12-23 13:31:40.0 UTC
Location 42.58 N ; 40.98 E
Depth 10 km

It's really very interesting:
earlier in this region at the bottom of the Black Sea was not aware of any volcano

[link to earthobservatory.nasa.gov]
30th Anniversary of the Pu'u 'O'o Eruption on Kilauea

[link to eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Just after midnight on January 3, 1983, a small fissure opened within Napau Crater on Kilauea Volcano, spewing red-hot lava. Within hours, additional fissures stretched 6 kilometers (4 miles) down the volcano’s East Rift Zone. Thirty years later, the Pu’u ’O’o-Kupaianaha eruption continues, making it the longest eruption at Kilauea in recorded history.

Since the eruption began in 1983, lava has poured almost continuously from a cluster of vents on the eastern flank. Through 2011, fresh lava had covered 124.6 square kilometers (48.1 square miles) of the Big Island of Hawai’i. Activity has occurred during 60 distinct events, separated by shifts in the location or behavior of erupting lava. Most of these events have been centered at Pu’u ’O’o, a volcanic cone built from successive lava fountains and flows. The 60th eruptive episode began in March 2011 and was ongoing through January 4, 2012. It consists of a lava pond within Pu’u ’O’o, and a steady effusion of lava that stretches 10 kilometers (6 miles) to the Pacific Ocean.

These images—a [links above] natural-color satellite image from June 6, 2011, and a black-and-white aerial photograph from March 25, 1977—show the landscape surrounding Napau Crater and Pu’u ’O’o. Lavas of different ages cover the surface. Lava flows that are more than a century old are covered by a dense forest (green in the 2011 image) of ohia lehua and tree ferns. Flows from eruptions in 1965, 1968, and 1969 are much lighter than the forest in the 1977 image, but difficult to differentiate from one another...

Kamchatka
Kizimen now shows nice big steam
[link to www.emsd.ru]

[link to www.simnet.is]

katla and eyrarbakki STILL black

en.vedur.is/wmap/wmap_su.gif

weather CALM!

New chart: great positive anomalies in Mould Bay (Canadian Arctic coast) - over 24 degrees C and again Sachs Harbour and south-west of Greenland
[link to 193.7.160.230]

Costa-Rica
Turrialba volcano
Weak steam now
[link to www.ovsicori.una.ac.cr]

and, as noted in comment by Granyia here
[link to www.wired.com]

clear visible night glow

interesting gif of the saved charts of the tremor at Katla this past 8 months or so, starting 15th May 2012 and ending today..

[link to makeagif.com]

notice the BOTTOM PEAKS of the red line is just over 20 at the start, and is now up over the 60-75 mark, pushing towards the 100 mark?

the other two frequencies have increased too. This is definitely ramping up, slowly, very slowly. whether that's a good thing, or a bad thing, we'll see.

i know the charts all look the same, but look at the increase in the nm/s figure on the left of the chart

If it works like a whistling kettle, it turns out that the wait is very long, this is what you had in mind?

Etna now
[link to www.guide-etna.com]
steam clear contains ash

yep

John Seach@johnseach
11h
#Bagana volcano, Papua New Guinea. Satellite images show sulphur dioxide emissions from volcano 4-5 January 2013
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