The latest swarm in Iceland has many people unsettled. Fears are rife that there will be a repeat of the Eyjafjallajökull episode, when European airspace was closed down for weeks at a time and people were left stranded. Others are afraid they might actually be impacted by an eruption itself and have fears for their…
Lately Iceland has suffered a long series of earthquake swarms that have ambled all over the island. Earthquake swarms are common in Iceland, that is not the issue, the problem is that they this time came in a swarm of swarms, all of them containing at least one earthquake above M3. Before we take a…
The earthquake swarm at Herðubreiðartögl has now continued unabated for four days without a letup, during the first two days there were 4 earthquakes above M3 with the largest earthquake at M3.9 and by now the count of earthquakes has passed 1 000. As such this is not the largest earthquake swarm to hit this volcano,…
Serendipity seems to have really cursed this series of the five most likely volcanoes and areas to erupt in Iceland. So far all 3 I have written about have shown signs of unrest (Hekla, Grimsvötn and Reykjanes Volcanic Area), and yesterday I would have written and published this piece on Herðubreið and Askja, but work…
I get this question often about Iceland, especially when there is an earthquake swarm. The problem is that it is rarely clear cut if it is magmatic or tectonic when it happens in Iceland. First of all you have all of the rift zones being tectonic, but they are also subject to rift and hotspot…
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