Info on Bárdarbunga

Very basic video on events up to 26/09/2014, good for any newbies among us:

http://www.ruv.is/frett/what-is-going-on-at-bardarbunga-video

Futurevolc at Holohruan:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141013-iceland-volcano-bardarbunga-lava-science/

New page IMO brought in on the 20th of August:
http://www.vedur.is/skjalftar-og-eldgos/yfirlit/bardarbunga-2014/

Last 15 days: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/arg/png/bardarbunga_15d.png

Icelandic-English Glossary of geoscientific terms http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1995/of95-807/geoicelandic.html

Vatnajökull monitoring for the Grimsvotn eruption 2011: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/vatnajokulsvoktun/english.html

A useful page of plots etc from © cow anonymous & the glp volcanotards : http://weerstationlangerak.nl/bardarbunga/

Earthquakes:
All of Iceland:
map: http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/
table:http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/#view=table

August 17 2014 4:10

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

Badabunga: http://baering.github.io

Customisable plots of Earthquakes in and around the area of interest.The first link is from the start of the event until now and the second one is day by day and you can go back in time:

http://www.ijsland-enzo.nl/ijsland/actueel_aardbeving_5dgn.asp

http://www.ijsland-enzo.nl/ijsland/actueel_aardbeving.asp

Tremor graphs: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/englishweb/tremor.html
All of Iceland: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/allarsort.html
closeset station_ http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/dyn.gif
http://baering.github.io

Drumplots: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/drumplot/vatnajokull.html
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/drumplot/mapDRUM.php

Stream flows: http://en.vedur.is/#tab=vatnafar
http://vmkerfi.vedur.is/vatn/vdv_gmap.php

GPS. http://strokkur.raunvis.hi.is/~sigrun/#VATN  Sigrún modified her Vatnajökull GPS page so it now contains the four most pertinent GPSes for Bárdarbunga (rapid ITRF08-detrended to boot!), so just go there daily to get the trend. Currently the trend is with 1 or 2 datapoints, but all four stations concur to a medium sized intrusion into the crust at Bárdarbunga.
http://futurevolc.hi.is/gps-time-series-around-bárðabunga-including-recently-installed-continuous-gps-station-gsig
http://strokkur.raunvis.hi.is/gps/cgps.html

Webcams:

• Southeast iceland https://www.extremeiceland.is/en/multimedia/iceland-through-webcams/south-east-corner
• Mila cams: Bardabunga http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardabunga/ . Situated on Mt. Vaðalda (   http://atlas.lmi.is/kortasja_en/?x=597854.7685280954&y=483198.1473930675&l=4&anno=1&bm=2 )
• As recommended by a local: http://vedur2.mogt.is/kverkfjoll/webcam/index.php
  A nother: http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/bardarbunga-2/
• Jón Bragi : I readjusted my webcam into the direction to Bárðarbunga. But as you can see i have some trees there. But when Grimsvötn eruptet 2011 i did have a good view. Check it out http://www.midhus.is  ( Dragon remark: This is a private webcam and he deliberately moved it to give us a view. THANK YOU. Please people handle this link with delicacy, It might not be able to handle a whole lot of traffic.)
• Youtube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoISDUAPNgc
• and the wide-angle view now directly from Mila´s channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcoDmgImFKK_MEWLif2f8vw
• And another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtGqoxV_qo
• Mirrors of MILA bardarbunga 2: http://www.visir.is/haegt-ad-fylgjast-med-gosinu-a-vefnum/article/2014140839916
• and http://volcanoparadise.blogspot.no/2014/09/bararbungastreams.html

Katla http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/katla/
Jökülsarlon: http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/jokulsarlon/
http://vedur2.mogt.is/grimsfjall/webcam/
http://www.ruv.is/frett/live-webcam-of-bardarbunga-volcano

Chronological playlist of timelapses as produced by the Volcanocafe crowd, images courtesy of MILA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YmT7OkOIwI&list=PLuZ2T7bkIhg06G4aV9ENPu5lmJbkU4wEi

Aviation situation: http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/volcanic-eruptions/

SO2: http://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/OMI/OMISO2/index.html
http://sampo.fmi.fi/so2_comp.html

A paper on the climatic effects of SO2 from Edgja volcano:http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1998/1998_Stothers_1.pdf

Earth wind map:http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/850hPa/orthographic=-4.50,51.20,821
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/08/19/1800Z/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-20.18,31.97,247

Winds in Iceland: http://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/elements/#type=wind

Jet streams: http://www.bgl-wetter.de/de/gfs_karten/europa/300hpa_wind/1
http://flaeming-wetter.bplaced.net/Synoptik/Polarfront-Jetstream.html
http://deutsch.wunderground.com/global/Region/EU/JetStream.html

News:
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As long as so much happens it is impossible to keep this page up-to-date

Animations

The newest plots can also be found in the comments of the posts or in the posts itself.

dfm August 27th.

First view is an hour by hour evolution showing the quakes’ position and magnitude. View is from the south East, with a 10° forward tilt.
Second view is from the top, hour by hour also.
Pay attention around 30” and 1’15” to see the “backward action” of yesterday then a new progression today.
There may even be a tentative sill formation, look @1’15 coordinates -17, 64.8 or on the left of the “g” of “Dyngjujokull”
Magnitude is given by the scale on the bottom of the plot.
Date is given by the quakes’ color, refer to left side of colorbar.
Terrain elevation is given by the right side of the colorbar.
Quake data from IMO, quality 99%, terrain data from NOAA, made on Gnu Octave
by IMO 3D plot from IMO:

by dfm.

Bardabunga Earthquake Animation 16-18/08/2014
the data comes from the “listi” pages Don’t hesitate to play with the definition (up to 1440) or go on YT to see it directly.

There are 2 event by event sequences, with views from the south then from the East. Then there is an horizontal rotation with all the quakes.
Finally there is a vertical rotation and return.
The color of the quakes gives the date as shown on the left of the colorbar. Terrain elevation is given on the right of the colorbar. On the first sequence, the magnitude if the earthquakes is given by the scale on the right of the plot.
Data from IMO and NOAA, made on Gnu Octave.

Bardabunga Earthquake animation 28/07-17/8/2014
data from IMO and NOAA
I used the etopo 1 bedrock data for the terrain.
The first 2 sequences show day to day earthquake animation from 2 different points of vue.
Then there is an horizontal rotation with all the quakes and 2 vertical rotations.
This is a old piece of code, so be indulgent, I’ll try to do something better next time.

Animation by KarenZ

Animation by chryphia: This is a 3D plot of the Bárðarbunga earthquake swarm from 25 July to 24 August 2014 (cold to warm) and past seismicity from 1995 to 2014 (green). The data are from the “listi” (99% quality) from http://hraun.vedur.is, the digital elevation model (DEM) is from GMTED2010 (USGS) and the gray layer (a bit ragged, that was part of the problems) shows the Mohorovičić discontinuity according to http://www.seismo.helsinki.fi/mohomap/
Looking back 20 years (which is really no time) it seems like the NE dyke went into previously relatively “quiet” territory whereas the other seismic centers are not new.

Still image of the same plot (top view):

Roads closed: http://www.vegagerdin.is/ferdaupplysingar/faerd-og-vedur/faerd-um-allt-land/island1.html

Road conditions http://www.vegagerdin.is/media/umferd-og-faerd/Halendi.gif ( Mostly due to normal summer activity )

From: http://strokkur.raunvis.hi.is/~sigrun/DYNC_3mrap.png

Papers:

Overview of Bardabunga Volcanic system from forthcoming Catalogue of Icelandic Volcanoes: http://www.vedur.is/media/jar/Bardarbunga_kafli20140825.pdf

Seismic measurement of the Icelandic mantle plume: http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/~cecily/385245a0.pdf

Tomography of Bardarbunga’s plumbing, these are all based on the 1996 non double couple EQ at Bardarbunga:

http://www.gep.ncu.edu.tw/upload/thesis/2003/thesis_1392619877.pdf

http://rses.anu.edu.au/~hrvoje/Tkalcic_etal_BSSA2009.pdf

http://www.geo.uu.nl/~seismain/pdf/2010_Bardarbunga_EPSL.pdf

On the geology of Vatnajökull National park: https://www.uef.fi/documents/1347235/1368104/NEED+V_New+Geo+Review.pdf/1735fdd2-2a58-4041-b2b4-d0cbf57b6c94 ( Dragur Bragason thinks it is very incorrect :  “Look at the comparison list on page 4 and compare that to reality.” )

Interesting paper about Bárðarbunga from Meredith Nettles and Göran Ekström
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/98JB01392/pdf
Haraldur Sigurðsson has thougts about the paper here: http://vulkan.blog.is/blog/vulkan/category/2768/

Plate boundaries, rifts and transforms in Iceland Páll Einarsson: http://jardvis.hi.is/sites/jardvis.hi.is/files/Pdf_skjol/Jokull58_pdf/jokull58-einarsson.pdf

Magma chambers: Formation, local stresses, excess pressures, and compartments Agust Gudmundsson

Tulane University Prof. Steven A. Nelson: Volcanoes and Magma: http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/Natural_Disasters/volcan&magma.htm

Volcanoes beneath Vatnajökull, Iceland: Evidence from radio echo-sounding, earthquakes and jökulhlaups. http://jardvis.hi.is/sites/jardvis.hi.is/files/Pdf_skjol/Bardarbunga_greinar/bjornsson_and_einarsson_1990.pdf

Gravity studies of the structure of the Vatnaöldur and Veiðivötn crater rows, South Central Iceland Jeanne M. Giniaux
http://skemman.is/stream/get/1946/15937/37967/1/JeanneM.Giniaux_MS-Thesis.pdf;jsessionid=2F179D8C37E03A4E35DF2F637B8BEBDE

Insights into the kinematics of a volcanic caldera drop: Probabilistic finite-source inversion of the 1996 Bárdarbunga, Iceland, earthquake Fichtner and Tkalčić (2010), Earth and Planetary Science Letters 297 (2010) 607–615.

Evidence of recent fault movements in the Tungnafellsjökull fissure swarm in the Central Volcanic Zone, Iceland Þórhildur Björnsdóttir and Páll Einarssonhttp://jardvis.hi.is/sites/jardvis.hi.is/files/Pdf_skjol/Bardarbunga_greinar/bjornsdottir_and_einarsson_2013.pdf

Schpeaks fer itself:

http://www.academia.edu/8344720/Dike_emplacement_at_Bardarbunga_Iceland_induces_unusual_stress_changes_caldera_deformation_and_earthquakes

The Relation Between Mantle Dynamics and Plate Tectonics: A Primer:

http://people.earth.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Bercovici/65mono-1.pdf

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/226931814_Propagation_linkage_and_interaction_of_caldera_ring-faults_comparison_between_analogue_experiments_and_caldera_collapse_at_Miyakejima_Japan_in_2000

The propagation of a dyke driven by gas-saturated magma:

http://geos.gsi.gov.il/vladi/PUBLICATIONS/Maimon_etal_2012.pdf

Recent(ish) activity at Tungnafellsjokull; paper published in 2012: http://skemman.is/stream/get/1946/11137/27366/1/The_Fissure_Swarm_of_Tungnafellsjokull.pdf

A nice blog post from John A. Stevenson: http://all-geo.org/volcan01010/2014/09/fieldwork-at-the-holuhraun/

Older posts on VC on the subject:

• Bárdarbunga, Gjálp and Onwards Author Carl May 17th. 2014
• Bárdarbunga and stratovolcano formation: Author Carl December 11th. 2013
• Bárdarbunga calling Author IngeB, December 18th.2012

Links from readers and most were collected by me over the years.
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