Volcanic Iceland: Earthquake with magnitude M 5,2 in Þorbjörn mountain (Fagradalsfjall mountain)!!!p1492

Wow, lots of activity!

Increasing hydrothermal activity and ground heat in Bárðarbunga volcano:
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Whoooo Guys whats happening?!


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Big-time action!

I'm watching for Katla to see some similar events in the near future. When check Jon's email update when he puts it out.

Reports of gas according to Icelandic Met Office close to Grænavatn lake after the earthquake yesterday (20-October-2020):
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It's nothing... nothing at all haha.
Greetzz, The Cow.

Weird. Never seen IMO quakes that quiet. I guess Grimsy wants an audience.

Feel like this needs a Barda Bump Xx

Agreed, MsMc!! Lots of Iceland activity today!!!

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Why the constant earthquakes? Iceland is slowly being torn apart

Iceland is being "torn apart"
The reason for this seismic activity is the location of Iceland on top the Atlantic ridge, the divergent boundary between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates: As the two plates drift in opposite directions Iceland is in effect slowly being split apart. The rate of spreading along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge averages about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) per year, or 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) in a million years.

4.8m 8 hours ago. If it's Katla or Hekla it will shut Europe down.

Certainly looking like things will get wonky soon. Prayers for the people in Iceland, and all of Europe if it's too explosive. Will be back watching this thread like in the Barda times....

700 years

I think this thread could use Luisport about now. Does anyone know what happened with him?

A little update from Reykjavik.

This is the most intense crazy earthquake swarm any of us here in the capital have ever experienced.
Ever since that M 5.7 on Wednesday morning it's been unrelenting and constant. Feels like a truck crashing on my house several time a day.
It' getting pretty annoying tbh..but hey who wouldn't be after some 16.000 recorded earthquakes..lol

We were hit by that M 5.1 this afternoon and it't been "quiet" since then. I say quiet simply cuz the quakes have been to small to notice, not because they have stopped occurring. Just waiting for the next big one. Creepy how you always hear them coming before they hit.

So today IMO and civil defence stated that a dyke similar to the one that formed from Bárðarbunga to Holuhraun is most likely forming and an eruption could be imminent.

We are not very nervous about an eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula as it would most likely be a fissure eruption like in Holuhraun. Lava can possibly reach populated areas but not very likely if a fissure would open up in the area where the quakes are happening at the moment.
It could however flow over the main road connecting the city to the airport.

Mostly it will be bothersome, ashfall and gas. But the only way it can become explosive is if a fissure opens up in the ocean. Which happenend in the 13th century.

It of course been 700 years since it erupted the last time. That time around the 6 volcanic systems in the peninsula had taken turns erupting for some 2-300 years. So this can be the start of something that will last well into the 2300's.

Last Edited by Urður on 03/01/2021 06:28 PM

Another problem is that the earthquakes and volcanoes in question, are between Reykjavik (which has about 2/3 of the entire population of Iceland in the Capitol Region) and Keflavik, which has Iceland's international airport. If really violent earthquakes and/or volcanoes strike that area, people will have to try to drive north to get to safety, but Iceland is pretty small, blowing volcanic ash could cover a great portion of the island. Evacuations could be a major problem.

We are actually more nervous of the other scenario they havd been warning us about since last week. That an M6.5 quake would happen much closer, just outside Reykjavik. It could cause some damage. One neighbourhood on the outskirt of Reykjavik is actually built on fault lines.
That said, another neighbourhood is built on an old lava field that formed in the last eruption 700 years ago, only some 5 km away from the volcanic crates it originated from. So effin stupid.

It's immpossible to evacuate the capital area. As you said, 2/3 of us live here so no one else can house us.

Great video - very informative. Thanks!

Good to see you here again Urdur! Sorry to hear how difficult it is - can't imagine feeling so many earthquakes! Thanks for bringing the first-hand reports. Stay safe!

ERUPTION IMMINENT!!

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Last Edited by Urður on 03/03/2021 11:19 AM

Feeling it here in Alaska too. Feel vibrations constantly. Had a few bigger ones that shook the house.
But nothing like a few years ago when we had a big one that did damage and the swarm lasted for months. Very in nerving. Praying for all.

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Earthquake swarm in Iceland continues, now with over 20.000 earthquakes detected since the start, facing an even higher eruption risk in the next few days

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Fagradalsfjall Volcano In Iceland About to Erupt - 1km left for the magma:

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Detailed historical account of Katla's explosion 1918. History repeats itself.

It's a 10 km long dyke stretching from Mount Keilir, under Mount Fagradalsfjall and has now reached a valley called Nátthagi just below Fagradalsfjall. It is lengthening about 500m per day and also widening. It doesn't have a long way to go until it reaches the ocean.

Here's a map

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New webcam looking over the valley where the dyke is currently expanding.

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A bit of US/WWII history regarding Fagradalsfjall and the crash of Hot Stuff and the death of it's crew, including Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews.

Hot Stuff is the nickname of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, 41-23728, of the 8th Air Force that was used in World War II. It was the first heavy bomber in the 8th Air Force to complete twenty-five missions in Europe in World War II and the aircraft which crashed while carrying Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews.

In early 1943 Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews needed to get back to Washington, D.C. He was Commander of the European Theater of Operations and known as the father of the Air Force. General Andrews knew Hot Stuff's pilot Capt. "Shine" Shannon and chose to fly back to the United States with him. The pilot, Capt. Shannon stated before the flight that he was "assigned to take Andrews home via Iceland." PFC Carroll Stewart, Gen. Andrews' aide and 93rd Bomb Group historian stated that "Captain Robert H. (Shine) Shannon of The Circus would have been going south, too, (to participate in Operation Tidal Wave, the Ploesti Raid) except his plane and crew were tabbed by Frank M. Andrews, gray-thatched European Theater Commander, for a hurried trip to the Pentagon." It was well known that General Andrews was in line for promotion and may have been going back to Washington, D.C., to be promoted to four star general and/or possibly assigned to lead the assault across the English Channel. Hot Stuff had a scheduled refueling stop in Iceland but crashed into Mount Fagradalsfjall near Grindavik, Iceland, in bad weather on May 3, 1943. Fourteen on board were killed. Only the tail gunner, George Eisel, survived.

Because of Gen. Andrews's death, the job of Supreme Allied Commander was assigned to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower seven months later in December 1943. Additionally, because Hot Stuff was destroyed in the crash, the War Department chose to send the Memphis Belle home and celebrate it as the first bomber to reach 25 missions. Memphis Belle later inspired the making of two motion pictures: a 1944 documentary film, Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, and a 1990 Hollywood feature film, Memphis Belle.

A monument honoring the victims was unveiled near the crash site on 3 May 2018, 75 years after the crash.

Andrews was the highest-ranking Allied officer to die in the line of duty to that time in the war.[8] At the time of his death, he was Commanding General, United States Forces, European Theatre of Operations. Camp Springs Army Air Field, Maryland, was renamed Andrews Field (later Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility), for him on 7 February 1945.

Joint Base Andrews is located a few miles southeast of Washington, D.C. and the home base of Air Force One.

Too cute..

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