iceland Bárðarbunga and Askja - Volcanic Activity

[Rustynailer]

For selfish reasons I want it to continue! I am ADDICTED!

Strange thing about us humans, we thrill to danger, both sexes..    

 

It will go off I am afraid, yes it will be annoying and potentially fatal to humans, how many humans, up to half of them if she was feeling like it, we are truly at the mercy of the North Atlantic Rift.

 

 

Worse thing is, she has cross faults, South of Iceland right down to the Azures and beyond, that look alarming on Google Earth. Mag 9 strike slip stuff, Iceland Rift/North Atlantic Rift, has just loaded some pressure all along herself.

 

Just rumbling along, stretch, twist and shake.   

 

 

Edited September 12, 2014 by Rustynailer

[Crepuscular Ray]

I think the North Atlantic Rift poses little danger at the moment.

[karyo]

All of a sudden loads of small earthquakes shown up when up to 5 mins ago there was nothing there!

 

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

Strange thing about us humans, we thrill to danger, both sexes..    

 

It will go off I am afraid, yes it will be annoying and potentially fatal to humans, how many humans, up to half of them if she was feeling like it, we are truly at the mercy of the North Atlantic Rift.

 

 

Worse thing is, she has cross faults, South of Iceland right down to the Azures and beyond, that look alarming on Google Earth. Mag 9 strike slip stuff, Iceland Rift/North Atlantic Rift, has just loaded some pressure all along herself.

 

Just rumbling along, stretch, twist and shake.   K137.JPG

I just love your disaster scenarios!

[Rustynailer]

I think the North Atlantic Rift poses little danger at the moment.

The stress relief at Iceland will demand counterbalance. 

[john pike]

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

 

flow there looks fairly high plus a lot of ice has gone from there now

 

 

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

 

that waterfall looks amazing and pretty strong flow too

[Rustynailer]

All of a sudden loads of small earthquakes shown up when up to 5 mins ago there was nothing there!

 

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

I just love your disaster scenarios!

Thing is they have all happened before, most likely in Iceland.

 

Badabunga is still inflating, but the rift is spreading, the balance is being kept up by the pressure from the mantle, subtly evolving the magma in a pseudo Hawaiian style.

 

Pseudo, Hawaii  is not Iceland it is the Opposite version of the Same, regarding lava it is the opposite pole of the runny family. Hawaii is a Judge and Iceland got sent to prison.

 

Iceland is on a rift. Boom. How soon, soon enough, just let us forget a bit.

 

Now that's all for tonight(if your lucky), don't forget, most humans live far enough away from the worlds most dangerous volcano(as at 21:03 ...  12/09/2014.) to not worry over 50%, unfortunately the UK is in the range of total inhalation, which is nice, I think as a species we are very silly and we do not belong, period.

 

dyn station malfunction, on and off...Not anything other than a note

 

I on the otherhand belong because I thought of it first.

 

There has been a distraction and something is stirring...

 

Putting it into perspective;   Coal is 50% a result of rifting episodes, the event catastrophically rips up the forest,.... like a Tsunami in Japan and deposits the debris in accordance to principles of fluid dynamics, geological time then dictates that the deposit turns to coal...I rush a bit, but you know where I go.

Edited September 12, 2014 by Rustynailer

[Crepuscular Ray]

The stress relief at Iceland will demand counterbalance. 

But nothing that's going to affect us in the short term, given how deep under the ocean most of it is. Could provide some interesting footage for a natural history documentary, though.

[Rustynailer]

But nothing that's going to affect us in the short term, given how deep under the ocean most of it is. Could provide some interesting footage for a natural history documentary, though.

We are so evolved that we can understand such logic, don't bet on this rift episode does not effect our future, it well could.

 

It could switch off and everything go on as normal at any time.

 

The load remains on the North Atlantic rift fault and her cross faults.

 

Most do not enter such conversation on the internet (with a small I)

 

It is dodgy ground, but volcanoes make dodgy ground. Science does not know, has not been there nor done that.

 

Mr Lucas, Iceland did Star Wars OK?   

 

The sun and her pulses may effect the readings tonight on the drums and other like equipment, so we are blind anyhow, god with a small G I am humbled.

 

If this is a long period wave beginning then it is very big... Very in this episode, I have not seen such...

Edited September 12, 2014 by Rustynailer

[john pike]

Friday

12.09.2014 20:37:32 64.744 -17.252 1.1 km 0.8 49.75 4.6 km SSW of Kistufell Friday

12.09.2014 20:03:36 64.625 -17.521 4.4 km 2.4 99.0 1.7 km S of Bárðarbunga Friday

12.09.2014 19:52:41 64.614 -17.443 4.0 km 3.7 99.0 4.9 km SE of Bárðarbunga Friday

12.09.2014 19:50:05 64.688 -17.467 8.3 km 3.2 99.0 6.0 km NNE of Bárðarbunga

[Rustynailer]

Friday

12.09.2014 20:37:32 64.744 -17.252 1.1 km 0.8 49.75 4.6 km SSW of Kistufell Friday

12.09.2014 20:03:36 64.625 -17.521 4.4 km 2.4 99.0 1.7 km S of Bárðarbunga Friday

12.09.2014 19:52:41 64.614 -17.443 4.0 km 3.7 99.0 4.9 km SE of Bárðarbunga Friday

12.09.2014 19:50:05 64.688 -17.467 8.3 km 3.2 99.0 6.0 km NNE of Bárðarbunga

The wave on its way back... dyn station at the peak. The rifting continues, longer waves.

 

Service time.   Presume lava is flowing through tunnels now only occasional sight on lava flow...

 

If this was UK, farmer would be about to loose his diesel tank.  

 

Bada is inflating ATM the Bada caldera is sinking, the rift is spreading and the lava is still pouring out of the rift eruption, see photo above.

 

If anything stops there will be a bang. There are waves, it is during these waves that it will happen, right at the peak, most probably, its the pressure at the peak you see.

 

Must go to bed now, I hope it has not happened before I wake up tomorrow,( if I do that is... )

Edited September 12, 2014 by Rustynailer

[NorthNorfolkWeather]

The wave on its way back...K142.JPG dyn station at the peak. The rifting continues, longer waves.

 

Service time.  K143.JPG Presume lava is flowing through tunnels now only occasional sight on lava flow...

 

If this was UK, farmer would be about to loose his diesel tank.  

It goes to show how sensitive the camera is that the car lights are soo bright.

 

As far as Barda is concerned I vary between hope and despair. hope that it will go bang, despair that it will be catastrophic.  I would rather see it go soon and (reasonably) gently that it accumulate everything and go with a huge bang.

 

More quakes in the rift under the ice tonight

[Rustynailer]

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More quakes in the rift under the ice tonight

Yes and spreading out, perhaps as the glacier subsides into the melt pit    I think that probably nails the position of a fissure eruption that has been mentioned by officials in Iceland.

 

The lava of which, runs to the East. 

Edited September 12, 2014 by Rustynailer

[john pike]

http://en.vedur.is/media/jar/myndsafn/full/Yfirlit_20140911_12.jpg

[john pike]

Friday
12.09.2014 23:01:12 64.673 -17.378 0.0 km 1.0 90.01 8.0 km ENE of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 23:00:49 64.699 -17.456 1.1 km 0.8 42.32 7.4 km NNE of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 23:00:19 64.680 -17.437 1.9 km 1.0 90.01 6.2 km NE of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 22:58:33 64.642 -17.492 3.9 km 1.2 58.21 1.7 km E of Bárðarbunga

 

top quake needs confirming but at 00 depth thats interesting

 

 

 

back up go the quakes again

 

 

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/vatnajokull/#view=map

Edited September 12, 2014 by john pike

[john pike]

kre

 

 

ask

 

look to be on the increase again too

 

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/allarsort.html

Edited September 12, 2014 by john pike

[john pike]

Friday
12.09.2014 23:01:12 64.676 -17.410 4.7 km 3.2 99.0 6.9 km NE of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 23:00:49 64.686 -17.438 4.7 km 3.3 99.0 6.7 km NE of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 23:00:19 64.682 -17.454 7.9 km 3.3 99.0 5.8 km NE of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 22:58:33 64.664 -17.537 10.4 km 3.3 99.0 2.7 km N of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 23:05:59 64.676 -17.416 9.5 km 3.4 99.0 6.6 km NE of Bárðarbunga Friday

Friday
12.09.2014 23:29:35 64.655 -17.533 8.6 km 3.4 99.0 1.7 km N of Bárðarbunga

 

Friday
12.09.2014 23:52:13 64.671 -17.461 7.6 km 3.1 99.0 4.7 km NE of Bárðarbunga Friday
12.09.2014 23:38:15 64.682 -17.482 5.1 km 2.0 99.0 5.2 km NNE of Bárðarbunga Edited September 13, 2014 by john pike

[john pike]

 

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/articles/nr/2949

 

manual quakes since midnight

[john pike]

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/alert/?id=UDD80;GFZ&date=2014-09-12

 

another 4+ looks to have happened very recent

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=399626

 

4.1

[Buckster]

crickey kicking off EQ wise atm !!

[john pike]

Friday

12.09.2014 23:58:55 64.672 -17.485 7.1 km 4.7 99.0 4.1 km NNE of Bárðarbunga

 

certainly is

 

but work tomorrow so goodnight all

[Filski]

That's a lot of activity in the caldera in the last little while.

 

Edited September 13, 2014 by Filski

[Filski]

Askja - anybody have any ideas?

Edited September 13, 2014 by Filski

[Filski]

Aurora on the live stream!

 

[karyo]

After all the activity around midnight, things went quieter again in the early hours.

[NorthNorfolkWeather]

yep, very quite.

 

Interesting the way that it spikes and quietens, overall number of quakes is well down now, will be interesting to see if we get a repeat pattern

 

Other point is many of those quakes in the caldera last night were very shallow