New Iceland Volcano(es) Thread

up for anything · 13-09-2011 7:27am #1

The other one is getting a bit unwieldy but feel free to merge back.

A new level of activity commenced overnight on the Reykjanes Penninsula and at Myrdalsjokull Glacier. This is a lot of earthquakes even for Iceland.

Some of the Reykjanes earthquakes may be man-made due to activity at a hydrothermal plant in the area.

http://www.ruv.is/frett/kippir-a-hellisheidi

Translation by Google.

“Twitching of Hellisheiði

Some 250 mild earthquakes have been twitching at Hellisheiði from about midnight. According to the seismic shift Meteorological Office is likely skýringinin that is being pumped carbon dioxide into wells in the area of Energy Cooperation, Stanford University and international co-operative.
This is part of the so-called CarbFix project. Carbon dioxide, which was previously confined to animals, is returned back to the place to release it into the atmosphere.

This technology hopes people to fully utilize the mótvægisaðgerð the greenhouse effect. The biggest spurt of the night was about 2 in size”

Elmo5 · 13-09-2011 9:28am

Yes lots of earthquakes but as you said supposed to be man made. I guess the fear is that the drilling has sparked off something else! :eek:

DominoDub · 22-09-2011 5:14pm

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/09/if-iceland-volcano-erupts-would-tragic-history-repeat.ars

Elmo5 · 23-09-2011 9:44am

3.2 and a 2.9 right in the middle of Katla this morning.

PixelTrawler · 23-09-2011 2:58pm

Drove through the Laki fields last week... huge is an understatement... (read the Arstechnica article then my comment makes sense

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maquiladora · 23-09-2011 4:53pm

Look at all those earthquakes in the Hengill area in the last couple of hours.

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/hengill/

They are however manmade earthquakes, from water being pumped down into the ground.

up for anything · 05-10-2011 7:39am

http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/?p=1584

Large earthquake swarm in Katla volcano
Posted on October 5, 2011 by Jón Frímann

At 02:45 UTC a large earthquake swarm did start in Katla volcano. I do not know if this an start of a eruption in Katla volcano or not. For the moment it is too early to know for sure. I have to wait few more min before that becomes clear on the harmonic tremor plots. The largest earthquake so far according to the automatic SIL systems is a ML3.9 earthquake.

The earthquake swarm in Katla volcano. The second green star is from a fake ML3.3 earthquake from yesterday.

This is not the pic that Jon was referring to in his post - this is the latest that I have taken from the IMO website.

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/#view=table

up for anything · 05-10-2011 7:51am

The latest image from Jon's Heklubyggð, Iceland
(Hekla) helicorder.

maquiladora · 05-10-2011 8:38am

Interesting swarm at Katla. At the moment I don't see a harmonic tremor along with the earthquakes so I dont think an eruption is about to start but this is a fairly large swarm so it needs to be watched to see if that changes.

up for anything · 05-10-2011 9:30am

Interesting map of the area

That's strange. It's still working for me. I've c&p'd it again.

Again

Popoutman · 05-10-2011 4:33pm

up for anything wrote: »

Interesting map of the area

Broken link?

youtube! · 05-10-2011 4:38pm

Elmo5 wrote: »

Yes lots of earthquakes but as you said supposed to be man made. I guess the fear is that the drilling has sparked off something else! :eek:

Well yes that is a concern,however greed knows no bounds it would seem, I find it brain dead to allow drilling and pumping in such seismic sensitive area but hey what do I know?

Elmo5 · 05-10-2011 5:31pm

Today's swarm in Katla is not man made however and there are tremors to go with it. Lots of cloud over the area, so can't really tell what's happening on the webcam

www.ruv.is/katla is not working for me;

This one is however: http://live.mila.is/katla/

Jon Seach is tweeting that it may already be erupting. However Jon firmann doesn't seem to think so in his blog. He is doing another blog post about it at 20:00 after the evening news in iceland.

maquiladora · 05-10-2011 6:08pm

There is still no clear, high harmonic tremor right now, like there was before the small subglacial eruption at Katla earlier this summer.

This swarm could be the early stages of a build up to an eruption but Im not convinced yet.

Not much point looking at any webcams yet. I think youll see a clear harmonic tremor going through the roof on the charts & see many more earthquakes and probably 4+ or 5+ size quakes in the lead up to an eruption.

Lets see what Jon says after the local evening news there.

maquiladora · 05-10-2011 8:13pm

When you see the red line here start to climb up and off the page then its time to watch out on the webcams. Individual spikes are just earthquakes close to the station.

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla/god_trem.gif

maquiladora · 05-10-2011 9:05pm

Update from the Icelandic Met Office

There are presently no measurable signs that an eruption of Katla is imminent; however, given the heightened levels of seismicity, the situation might change abruptly. Monitoring teams at IMO are following the ongoing activity closely, and sensor-based networks around the volcano ensure that all seismological, geodetic, and hydrological changes are detected.

http://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/2011/nr/2360

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