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

Deep earthquake activity in Katla volcano
Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jón Frímann

Today (23-June-2016) a deep earthquake swarm took place in Katla volcano. None of the earthquakes that took place where strong, but many of them where deep. The deepest earthquake had the depth of 28 km, at this depth it’s only magma that creates earthquakes.

Other interesting feature that showed up is a dyke intrusion in the caldera wall to the south, it is located almost directly north of Vík í Mýrdal village. This dyke intrusion appeared in 2011 after the minor eruption in July that year (this is my view, at the moment it has not been approved by scientists). It is unclear how this dyke intrusion is evolving, but there might be some risk of eruption from it if the pressure increases. Currently there is nothing that suggests an eruption is about to happen.
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Thanks Luis for keeping us up to date.

From an old BardaTard

Jón Frímann says:
June 23, 2016 at 16:01
A minor glacier flood has been confirmed from the western Skaftár cauldron. I’m going to write about it little later on. I just have to get to the store first.
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A glacial river flood has started in Iceland

The river flood is considered fairly minor. mbl.is/Sigurður Bogi Sævarsson

The Iceland Met Office has just announced that a minor flood of the Skaftá glacier river in Iceland’s mighty Vatnajökull glacier has most probably begun. Tourists are warned to stay away from the area.

The river flow at Sveinstindur has been increasing steadily over recent days and the electrical conductivity of the river water has increased slightly.

The flow at Sveinstindur is now measured at 112 cubic metres per second and the flood water is reportedly discharging from the west cauldron of Skaftá.

Because such a short time has passed since the last Skaftá river flood, specialists at the Met Office believe that it will cause no damage to the Skaftárdalur valley.

Possible dangers of the glacial river flood are Sulphur Dioxide being carried with the river water from the glacier. It will be strong enough to irritate eyes and lungs and travellers are therefore warned to stay away from the borders of Skaftárjökull, Tungnárjökull and Síðujökull glaciers for the duration of the flood. Crevasses will form very fast around the cauldron and tourists to Vatnajökull should keep away from the cauldrons.
[link to icelandmonitor.mbl.is]

Minor glacier flood from western Skaftárkatlar cauldron
Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jón Frímann

Few days ago a glacier flood started from western Skaftárkatlar cauldron. Due to how short time it is since last time glacier flood took place from the western cauldron a major glacier flood is not expected. No damage is also not expected from this glacier flood due to how small it is.


When the water pressure is released from the hydrothermal area that powers this cauldron, a spike in harmonic tremor is normally seen on nearby SIL station. The reason for this is unclear, with leading ideas that magma moves in the hydrothermal system when the pressure drops. The image above shows such harmonic tremor spike taking place at Jökulheimar SIL station. Eruption is not expected to happen due to this glacier flood, what happens is impossible to know for sure. Normally nothing more than just harmonic tremor spike happens.
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Thanks luis!! 💐

Ohhh snap..a M 3,2 near Hekla

Fimmtudagur
23.06.2016 20:36:47 63,975 -19,301 2,1 km 3,2 99,0 11,8 km V af Landmannalaugum

Bárðarbunga volcano continues to inflate, gas readings unchanged
Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jón Frímann

According to news report on Vísir.is (Icelandic), it appears that Bárðarbunga volcano is continuing to inflate at the same rate as it has been doing since the eruption ended in Holuhraun in the end of February 2015. Gas measurements from cauldrons that formed on the caldera rim during the eruption in 2014 show that gas output from Bárðarbunga volcano have not dropped during the last year and continue to be high. The glacier drop that formed during the eruption is now almost full of new glacier and snow from last winter. Nothing suggest that water has been collecting at the caldera bottom during the last two years.

The research trip to Bárðarbunga volcano was taken during the days of 3 – 10th of June. A new seismometer was also installed on the caldera rim. I don’t know if it’s a SIL station or not. If it is, it is going to appear soon on Iceland Met Office website.
[link to www.jonfr.com]

[link to hraun.vedur.is]

Very unusual to see such a big quake there.

Magnitude 3,2 earthquake in Torfajökull volcano
Posted on June 23, 2016 by Jón Frímann

Today (23-June-2016) at 20:36 UTC an magnitude 3,2 earthquake (current data, might change) took place in Torfajökull volcano. The depth was 2,1 km.


If anyone was close to this earthquake, it would have been felt. No other earthquake have so far followed this earthquake, that might change in few hours. It does happen once in a while that just one magnitude 3,0 earthquake happens and nothing more. I don’t know if there is any hydrothermal activity in the location where this earthquake took place.

Update at 22:24 UTC

According to an announcement from Iceland Met Office. This earthquake was felt in a nearby camping area.
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This is a hydro-thermal place. 12 km east from Landmannalaugar and about 20 km east of Hekla.

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Last Edited by Þór on 06/23/2016 06:48 PM

There were also 2 EQs along this ridge north of Iceland within last 2 weeks.

Magnitude mb 4.4
Region SVALBARD REGION
Date time 2016-06-17 01:07:54.0 UTC
Location 78.29 N ; 8.55 E
Depth 10 km

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Magnitude mb 4.5
Region GREENLAND SEA
Date time 2016-06-08 03:53:19.9 UTC
Location 79.50 N ; 3.09 E
Depth 10 km

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

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Iceland about to let of some steam... Got the felling we might see some eruptions in places that have not gone off in a long time, like Reykjanes...

It's acting up

Saturday
25.06.2016 07:19:44 64.625 -17.469 7.9 km 3.5 99.0 3.3 km ESE of Bárðarbunga
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Down Under (@Recretos) 25/06/2016 at 07:47
And we have another star at Bardarbunga in the notorious 5-10km deth layer, this time at ~8km depth, which is quite decent for an M3.5 and directly in the caldera itself.
And as IMO said, the magma chamber inflating, is at around 10-15km depth. So there is something at works in the bowels of Bard .
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So we'll have a BardaExit?

maby not only barda... history repeating...

And another 4.6 just now.

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Saturday
25.06.2016 13:17:14 64.670 -17.533 1.8 km 3.8 99.0 3.3 km N of Bárðarbunga

Third one:
Saturday
25.06.2016 13:18:57 64.667 -17.508 4.6 km 3.2 99.0 3.1 km NNE of Bárðarbunga

Now this is getting really interesting. Is it time to begin the cam watch?

New one:
Saturday
25.06.2016 13:45:01 64.674 -17.528 3.6 km 3.9 99.0 3.8 km N of Bárðarbunga

Live cam is off!

We're doomed!

Henrik 25/06/2016 at 14:02
I’ve just had a nice message from Shérine France (merci beaucoup!) with the latest, stunning pictures of ice cauldrons at Bardarbunga:

[link to brunnur.vedur.is]
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