iceland Bárðarbunga and Askja - Volcanic Activity

[john pike]

http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga-2/

 

still see this on cam 2

 

looks lively still

[john pike]

 

quake registering here now

[Allseasons-Si]

 

quake registering here now

Yup,i reckon a 4+EQ

 

alert quiet high there

 

17:35:39 57 2472

 

http://platformsthatwork.com/bardies/quakesonaplane.php

Edited October 27, 2014 by Allseasons-si

[john pike]

hi mate

 

yep around 4 -4,5 by the look of that

[john pike]

 

 

Monday
27.10.2014 08:23:29 63.637 -23.468 9.8 km 3.7 99.0

10.0 km WSW of Geirfugladrangur

 

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

 

just something that i noticed earlier

 

maybe nothing but worth keeping an eye on

 

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/reykjanes.html

[Allseasons-Si]

 

 

Monday

27.10.2014 08:23:29 63.637 -23.468 9.8 km 3.7 99.0

10.0 km WSW of Geirfugladrangur

 

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

 

just something that i noticed earlier

 

maybe nothing but worth keeping an eye on

 

http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/reykjanes.html

Ha! ha!

 

yes John,i posted this in the list of EQ'S earlier and had to remove it because it wasn't in the Barda area

 

looking at cam 2 i had to put these on it was that bright

 

 

look at the gps on the climb,could be another biggy with that.

 

 

 

Edited October 27, 2014 by Allseasons-si

[Allseasons-Si]

Whoah!!,steady on

 

 

still no check on that quake yet

 

cam 1 clear now

 

http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga/

 

brb,got to do some tea.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 27, 2014 by Allseasons-si

[john pike]

http://so2.gsfc.nasa.gov/pix/daily/1014/iceland_1014z.html

[john pike]

http://icelandreview.com/news/2014/10/27/world-premier-drone-video-tuesday-night

 

should be interesting when it comes out

[Allseasons-Si]

http://icelandreview.com/news/2014/10/27/world-premier-drone-video-tuesday-night

 

should be interesting when it comes out

Cheers John,will be looking forward to that

 

off for now,catch you l8tr.

[john pike]

not sure what to make of this tonight

 

really jumping up and down at present

 

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Bardarb/BARC/

 

we are getting quakes but updates seem to be very sketchy tonight

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/alert/?id=UTY41;LDG&date=2014-10-28

 

again maybe in the morning we will see the updates

Edited October 28, 2014 by john pike

[Filski]

Don't know if this is new to anyone, seems to be 2 weeks old

http://brunnur.vedur.is/pub/vatnavakt/bardarbunga/vmr_20141015_mtg_fp.pptx

[jonboy]

Here are a few larger quakes from overnight and today

Tuesday

28.10.2014 00:21:22 64.670 -17.462 3.8 km 4.0 99.0 4.6 km NE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 02:12:28 64.671 -17.421 4.4 km 4.5 99.0 6.1 km NE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 04:37:43 64.675 -17.410 1.7 km 3.7 99.0 6.8 km NE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 04:54:50 64.670 -17.368 8.5 km 5.0 99.0 8.3 km ENE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 06:04:58 64.671 -17.489 8.2 km 5.1 99.0 3.8 km NNE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 07:11:25 64.679 -17.469 7.7 km 3.9 99.0 5.2 km NNE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 08:15:54 64.676 -17.485 10.0 km 3.9 99.0 4.4 km NNE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 09:37:30 64.672 -17.435 4.9 km 4.6 99.0 5.6 km NE of Bárðarbunga

Tuesday

28.10.2014 13:01:50 64.610 -17.420 1.1 km 4.1 50.5 6.1 km ESE of Bárðarbunga

The last one still needs verification but looks very shallow

[jonboy]

The last one now upgraded to a 4.6 at only 0.7 km down

Tuesday

28.10.2014 13:01:50 64.614 -17.437 0.7 km 4.6 99.0 5.2 km SE of Bárðarbunga

[john pike]

M 4.5 - NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE - 2014-10-28 16:11:29 UTC

 

M 4.5 - NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE - 2014-10-28 16:15:21 UTC

 

 

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=406107#map

 

a couple of quakes on the the same plate here

 

has been fairly quiet lately there

 

be interesting to see if we lose or gain quakes in iceland from this

from 13.01

 

quakes over 3

 

Tuesday

28.10.2014 16:50:18 64.690 -17.450 1.1 km 3.5 50.5 6.6 km NE of Bárðarbunga Tuesday

28.10.2014 14:57:39 64.667 -17.465 5.9 km 3.9 99.0 4.2 km NE of Bárðarbunga Tuesday

28.10.2014 13:09:49 64.615 -17.468 2.0 km 3.0 99.0 4.0 km SE of Bárðarbunga

[Allseasons-Si]

Afternoon Bunga buddies

 

a 3.5 unchecked

 

Tuesday
28.10.2014 16:50:18 64.690 -17.450 1.1 km 3.5 50.5 6.6 km NE of Bárðarbunga

 

i don't know if it's a error yet though

 

 

http://baering.github.io/

 

just managed to grab this of the caldera drop

 

 

hello,clearing up on the cams now,yay

 

http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga

Edited October 28, 2014 by Allseasons-si

[john pike]

hi mate

 

not sure about that 3.5

 

looks odd according to the graph

 

it might be a plate reaction from the north atlantic ridge

 

http://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/areas/

 

do not think its weather unless its rockfall of some kind

[john pike]

http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga-2/

 

thats different

[Allseasons-Si]

http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga-2/

 

thats different

that cam 2 has been on acid  the last few hours lol.

 

as for that 3.5 EQ,confused.com

 

there isn't a big alert for it so i reckon a 2+

 

16:50:09 55 969

 

http://platformsthatwork.com/bardies/quakesonaplane.php

Edited October 28, 2014 by Allseasons-si

[jonboy]

That 3.5 only had a 50% quality so will change big uplift ongoing on the vertical displacement graph at present

[john pike]

http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga-2/

 

see again

[BARRY]

they said this eruption was slowing down but there don't seem to be any slow down

[john pike]

Gas-spewing Icelandic volcano stuns scientists

Icelandic sunrises and sunsets have been tinged blood red, of late. Above the maritime bustle of Reykjavik’s harbour and the city’s towering concrete Hallgrímskirkja church, volcanic pollution gives the skies an eerie glow.

For eight weeks, lava has been spurting out of a fissure in the ground radiating from the Bárðarbunga volcano, about 250 kilometres from Reykjavik. Sulphur dioxide has been spurting too — 35,000 tonnes of it a day, more than twice the amount spewing from all of Europe’s smokestacks. The gas has spread across the Icelandic countryside, causing people to wheeze and trapping some indoors.

The record-setting amount of pollution has surprised even volcanologists in the middle of a major project funded by the European Union to understand the island’s fiery activity. They had been preparing for a repeat of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which led to a billowing ash plume that grounded planes across Europe. “Everybody was expecting a big ash cloud, and now we have something totally different,†says Anja Schmidt, an atmospheric modeller at the University of Leeds, UK, who studies how volcanic gases spread.

The timing of the eruption was just about perfect for the project, called FUTUREVOLC. The initiative aims to use Iceland as a natural laboratory to understand how magma makes its way from deep in Earth’s crust to the surface — to do so, its organizers have focused on four of Iceland’s most active volcanoes, one of which is Bárðarbunga. The researchers used extra seismometers and global-positioning-system (GPS) stations to bolster the monitoring network maintained by the Icelandic Meteorological Office and the University of Iceland, both in Reykjavik. And they used these to measure the events leading up to and after the eruption with unprecedented detail.

 

Earthquakes began shaking Bárðarbunga on 16 August. For two weeks, researchers watched as seismic activity marched north and east, towards the edge of the ice cap that covers the volcano. GPS stations measured the ground flexing upward as huge amounts of magma shifted underground. “The seismic shows us the detail, and the GPS shows us the volume,†says Kristín Vogfjörð, a seismologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office and co-leader of FUTUREVOLC.

 

Since then, the eruption has spewed at least half a cubic kilometre of lava, making it the largest lava-producing eruption in Iceland since 1947. But the quantity of gas is what has startled scientists most. Chunks of rock collected from the eruption show how gas-rich the lava is; the rocks are porous, filled with air pockets where the gas has leaked out.

 

With the right winds, the sulphur that Holuhraun produces can reach as far as the European continent, where Austria has recorded more sulphur in its air than any time since the industrial clean-up of the 1980s.

 

Icelandic officials are trying to work out how much of a hazard the sulphur is and whether they can predict its movement more accurately. The meteorological office has begun issuing forecasts of where the gas is likely to travel each day. Sulphur spikes as high as 21,000 micrograms per cubic metre were measured last weekend in the town of Höfn; the World Health Organization recommends no more than 500 micrograms per cubic metre for a 10-minute exposure.

 

In Iceland, the last similar event was a fissure eruption known as the Krafla fires that began in 1975 and lasted on and off until 1984, says Freysteinn Sigmundsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland and co-leader of FUTUREVOLC. If the current eruption is tapping magma deep in the crust, as the lava’s volume and chemistry suggest, then it, too, may continue for months or even years.

 

http://www.nature.com/news/gas-spewing-icelandic-volcano-stuns-scientists-1.16234?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

 

link supplied

 

have reduced this down for posting here

 

click on link for full story

[Allseasons-Si]

The 3.5 EQ has been removed,i thought it was an error.

 

 

Edited October 28, 2014 by Allseasons-si

[Allseasons-Si]

they said this eruption was slowing down but there don't seem to be any slow down

Hi BARRY

 

the fisure at Holuhraun has been flowing at a similar rate for quiet some time,but the seismicity has decreased

 

all the info at Barda here Barry

 

http://icelandreview.com/news/eruption

 

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incoming,maybe a 4 EQ

 

18:47:44 56 1725

 

that 3.5 has been checked

 

Tuesday

28.10.2014 16:49:37 64.663 -17.417 2.7 km 3.7 99.0 5.8 km ENE of Bárðarbunga

 

erm!!!

 

spooky,and it's not Halloween yet,the 3.5 is back unchecked

 

http://baering.github.io/

 

Tuesday

28.10.2014 18:48:15 64.670 -17.380 1.1 km 3.5 50.5 7.8 km ENE of Bárðarbunga

 

Edit:3.9 now lol

 

Tuesday

28.10.2014 18:48:15 64.670 -17.380 1.1 km 3.9 50.5 7.8 km ENE of Bárðarbunga

 

ok i will brb

Edited October 28, 2014 by Allseasons-si