Irpsit says:

March 31, 2013 at 23:38


Some earthquakes today in Iceland might be linked to magmatic movements: as usual the ones in Askja and north of Bárdarbunga (now even deeper than usual), also some very deep quakes at Kverfjoll and also deep earthquake swarm east of Grimsey. This I thought it could be tectonic but the earthquakes are just too deep, around 18km deep. However there is some regions in Tjornes seismic zone, where some possible subduction could be happening; this could be it. Nevertheless, there has been volcanic activity in the area, and it could happen again.

Other than that, so many people looking for Hekla, but it seems the action is happening really elsewhere: Askja, Kverfjoll and Kistufell (north of Bárdarbunga) are also having their run-up to their eruptions, and plenty much more ignored and overlooked than Hekla. I mean, Askja and Kistufell have inflation and plenty deep earthquakes and often swarms. What more do you need? With Askja, we only expect a small VEI2 fissural eruption, but Kistufell could be headed for an eruption with a larger volume of lava released (that area only has the largest shield volcano in Iceland and extremely large lava fields).

Likewise for Kverfjoll, a volcano that clearly also shows it is running towards an eruption, after some 80 years of sleep. Kverfjoll has usually small explosive eruptions, with some Gjálp-like lava eruptions.

By expecting an eruption on these volcanoes in “soon” I might within the next decades in Kverfjoll, and within the next few years (probably) at Askja. Kistufell has more rarer eruptions.
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