The Iceland Volcano Thread

03-08-2010 9:36am

drymartini wrote: »

Screen shot from the Mulakot cam this morning

It would have been even more interesting if he'd parked it on the volcano!

WolfeIRE · 03-08-2010 12:27pm

drymartini wrote: »

Screen shot from the Mulakot cam this morning

i see the first snows have arrived as well

ps...3 magnitude 3 quakes in past 6 hrs

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

up for anything · 03-08-2010 4:30pm

WolfeIRE wrote: »

ps...3 magnitude 3 quakes in past 6 hrs

Is that significant?

Is there a site that calculates the likelihood of major earthquakes and eruptions based on markers in the type of of and frequency of seismic activity. Indonesia seems to be getting it's fair share of quakes in the last 24 hours. I get nervous about the ring of fire because my sister lives in the neighbourhood.

WolfeIRE · 04-08-2010 8:40am

not hugely significant in terms of their magnitude but I have not seen three 3+ magnitude quakes register in three seperate locations in such a short period of time for many weeks.

a swarm of smaller tremors followed but this tapered off last evening and overnight

WolfeIRE · 10-08-2010 9:52am

Nice shot of eyjafjallajokull (yes i copied and pasted spelling) this morn. Small steam plume above crater still. You can also see that the first snows have fallen. The top of the mountain was in fact covered in snow yesterday.

Also, for those of you who have never seen the following video I think you will enjoy. It's a timelapse video put to the music of Jonsi, former lead singer with Sigar Ros.

WolfeIRE · 19-08-2010 10:28am

a larger than normal (as in past 2 months) shudder in Iceland this morn
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/atlantic/

Elmo5 · 19-08-2010 12:09pm

Would appear to be centred around Askja volcano I think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askja

WolfeIRE · 19-08-2010 12:11pm

not sure Elmo

the name on this page is Vatnajökull
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/vatnajokull/

Elmo5 · 19-08-2010 8:47pm

Think you are right oscar mike, Askja is a bit further north.
Bardabunga looks like it!

Another little star on the map this evening

Min · 20-08-2010 11:02pm

A very dangerous volcano according to wikipedia - due a large eruption - last large eruption was 1480 and they happen every 250 to 600 years for that volcano.

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/en/volcanoes/europe/iceland/bardabunga/

Duiske · 26-08-2010 1:25am

Its hard to make out at the moment due to the darkness, but something is going on at Eyjafjallajökull. Not sure if its ash or steam.

http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

up for anything · 26-08-2010 12:05pm

Is that smoke coming down the mountainside or lava or perhaps a large dose of wishful thinking?:)

http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

gothwalk · 26-08-2010 12:27pm

Sadly, I think that stuff coming down the mountainside is the Gígjökull glacier, assuming I'm reading the maps correctly.

WolfeIRE · 26-08-2010 12:49pm

yes. that's the glacier.

I did notice that more steam is being omitted today than previous weeks though.

up for anything · 26-08-2010 1:50pm

Thanks. [/excitement]

scuj1 · 26-08-2010 2:30pm

A few pics I grabbed earlier this morning.....

Edit: Looks like they stopped working. Here's direct links to pics.....

http://twitpic.com/2i742z

http://twitpic.com/2i749l

up for anything · 02-09-2010 8:16pm

Is this what you'd call a swarm? Seems like a lot of recent activity especially around Bardabunga.

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

scuj1 · 02-09-2010 8:19pm

up for anything wrote: »

Is this what you'd call a swarm? Seems like a lot of recent activity especially around Bardabunga.

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

Bardarbunga has had a silly amount of earthquakes over the last few weeks. I don''t think it's Katla we have to worry about!

Mr Benevolent · 02-09-2010 11:34pm

Meh. What's the worst that could happen?

02-09-2010 11:48pm

Confab wrote: »

Meh. What's the worst that could happen?

As Iceland is on a spreading fault, neighbours on the eastern and western sides could find themselves drifting apart!

isle of man · 03-09-2010 12:16am

Deleted User wrote: »

As Iceland is on a spreading fault, neighbours on the eastern and western sides could find themselves drifting apart!

lets hope the half with the cash on they robbed drifts this way :rolleyes:

My name is URL · 03-09-2010 12:23am

Hasn't there always been swarms of seismic activity in Iceland? I think people are focussing on it all too much tbh. There's dozens of volcanoes which are more active than Katla right now.. stop stressing over what might happen =p

I don't think I've seen a thread in my subscribed list get bumped as often as this one :pac:

up for anything · 03-09-2010 12:55am

I'm not stressing unless the hill in the Kilkenny Castle Park is a hidden volcano. Mine is more of a voyeuristic hopefulness. I wouldn't mind but I give out to my son for constantly watching youtube vids of the tsunami.

Hal1 · 03-09-2010 4:37pm

Tremor activity at the Sugarloaf mountain's would be awesome too. But not for local resident's. Still it would be a display to be seen for miles around.:D

thetonynator · 03-09-2010 9:38pm

up for anything wrote: »

I'm not stressing unless the hill in the Kilkenny Castle Park is a hidden volcano. Mine is more of a voyeuristic hopefulness. I wouldn't mind but I give out to my son for constantly watching youtube vids of the tsunami.

I'm pretty sure from the amount of times i've run up and down that hill that it is not a volcano . . .but i'll live in hope!!!

up for anything · 03-09-2010 10:04pm

It's definitely not a volcano. I'm nearly 100% sure though that it is the final resting place of King Arthur and I'm going digging on Sunday to prove it. 2pm. Bring your own shovel.

poisonated · 03-09-2010 10:21pm

What ever happened to Katla? It was almost guaranteed to errupt but I haven't heard anything in Months.

up for anything · 03-09-2010 11:50pm

A bigger eruption today from a volcano in Indonesia that erupted on Sunday. Didn't see the name as came in on the end of the news report on CNN.

ETA: Mount Sinabung.

04-09-2010 2:35am

poisonated wrote: »

What ever happened to Katla? It was almost guaranteed to errupt but I haven't heard anything in Months.

I think that the lag between Katla and Eyla.... erupting was about two years the last time, still plenty of time.

drymartini · 06-09-2010 2:49am

between both volcanoes.

.....*nods

up for anything · 06-09-2010 11:00am

drymartini wrote: »

between both volcanoes.

.....*nods

I've never seen that graph so empty of quakes. Is this mother natures equivalent of nesting before giving birth!

06-09-2010 11:09am

up for anything wrote: »

I've never seen that graph so empty of quakes. Is this mother natures equivalent of nesting before giving birth!

Could be... I'd imagine that as this is a spreading fault, each section moves independantly so therefore seismic activity "moves" up and down the faultline.

scuj1 · 09-09-2010 8:38pm

Little swarm around Katla earlier today.....

http://twitpic.com/2mslom

up for anything · 14-09-2010 1:16am

As the actress said to the bishop, that's the biggest one I've seen in a while.

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

*strokes thread hopefully in anticipation of at least a little eruption*

It'll serve me right if I find myself buried under a ton of ash when I wake up in the morning.

WolfeIRE · 14-09-2010 9:52am

been a busy morning across the island
http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/atlantic/

Duiske · 14-09-2010 7:27pm

What odds an eruption of Katla on 12th October ?

Just been doing a bit of reading up on Katla, and from what I can tell there appears to be a link between summer melting of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier and increased seismic activity during the later half of the year, particularly on it's western flank.

Eruptions of Katla also tend to be just after the end of Summer, although there have been 2 in early May. Of the last nine eruptions, dating back to 1580, 2 eruptions (1612 and 1918) have occured on the 12th October, while the 1755 eruption occured on the 17th October.

Only the last nine eruptions have reliable dates.

1918 - 12 October

1860 - 8 May

1823 - 26 June

1755 - 17 October

1721 - 11 May

1660 - 3 November

1625 - 2 September

1612 - 12 October

1580 - 11 August.

14-09-2010 8:44pm

On average how long after the eyla.... volcano does Katlas, erupt 6 months or 18 months?

Duiske · 15-09-2010 4:02pm

Deleted User wrote: »

On average how long after the eyla.... volcano does Katlas, erupt 6 months or 18 months?

I'm not all that convinced about a link between the two volcanos. Katla is far more active than Eyjafjallajökull. It appears that since the 6th century Katla has erupted up to 20 times and Eyja only 3 times.
The reason for the link is that the most recent Eyja eruption, prior to 2010, was in December 1821. It seems this eruption lasted until mid January 1822 and was followed by a Katla eruption 6 months later,June 1822.
In 1999 there was some activity at Eyja, and this was followed about 4 months later by some subglacial activity at Katla. On the basis of those two incidents, it would be a brave vulcanologist who would call it solid evidence of a link, and to be fair i don't think anyone has ever suggested these two incidents are actual proof of a link.
Anyway, even ignoring Eyja, Katla is due an eruption soon. Its 92 years since the last eruption, the previous longest period of inactivity being around 80 years (between roughly 1500 and 1580).

141_Oscar_Mike wrote:

Thats my D.O.B. So it will

By the way, the real activity during the recent Eyja eruption started on 14 April. If we follow the timelapse between the last two major eruptions of both Eyja and Katla, 6 months, that would take it pretty damn close to 12 October again

WolfeIRE · 17-09-2010 10:21am

mag 3 tremor at Katla overnight.

Very small still but considerably larger than other recorded tremors of recent weeks

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

Just a note rather than an alarmist post.

up for anything · 19-09-2010 9:20pm

Very busy including 3.5 and 3.6.

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

isle of man · 20-09-2010 12:19am

ooo there getting biggger,

will she go pop, noboody knows

pp_me · 20-09-2010 12:35am

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

Has anyone else seen that

up for anything · 20-09-2010 1:06am

pp_me wrote: »

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

Has anyone else seen that

Which that? I can't see anything more than there was earlier or maybe I am just cross-eyed with tiredness.

pp_me · 20-09-2010 1:11am

up for anything wrote: »

Which that? I can't see anything more than there was earlier or maybe I am just cross-eyed with tiredness.

I didnt see it earlier

up for anything · 20-09-2010 1:20am

Ah stop, all this excitement before bed. If anything else happens tonight perhaps you'd be good enough to shake me awake.

up for anything · 21-09-2010 11:17am

Take a look at this. Busy, busy, busy

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

WolfeIRE · 21-09-2010 11:19am

a lot of them offshore though to the north.

we have seen periods like this since may but it is interesting to see such a wide spread of termor activity.

up for anything · 21-09-2010 11:27am

I'm becoming a trembore.

Maybe a little tsunami sweeping down from the Artic Sea and spilling over into the Atlantic... much better than snow.

Redsunset · 21-09-2010 10:50pm

Take note of this katla webcam for when she blows.IF EVER

:D

http://www.katla-volcano.co.uk/katla-webcam.php

Ignore if site mentioned already.

WolfeIRE · 22-09-2010 6:08pm

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

albeit a fart in the wind, eyjafjallajokull (copied and pasted

) has recorded a tremor, the first in a long time.

just a note.

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