While we are pondering the deep magmatic earthquakes that are taking place under the Harðurátungusprungu I thought we should teach the news media that there are many volcanoes in Iceland. Some newspapers seem to only know about Katla and perhaps Lakí, and if they are really spiffy they might have heard about Hekla. A few…
Iceland has many active volcanoes; at least 27 of them are counted as active central volcanoes. There is probably more than twice that number that are capable of having an eruption at some time or another. This leads us often on marry chases as one or another of them suffers from a magmatic intrusion into…
Foreword After I wrote my post ‘Central volcanoes of Vatnajökull’ a discussion ensued on the Lakí fissure eruption, both about the anatomy and its timeline. In the end I offered to write a post on it. I not only armed myself by reading more than 30 scientific articles on the subject, I also delved into…
We are minutely studying any hiccup from the Icelandic Usual Suspects. In the case of earthquakes we are quite used in getting all sorts of useful stuff out of them. One of my favorite ways of studying earthquakes in volcanoes is the cumulative seismic release (CSR). In the case of Grimsvötn it might even be…
Post by Inge B. Photo from Kalidalur highland road, Langjökull (western side) left, Presthnúkur in the middle, Þórisjökull to the right There was a unusual swarm of about 20 quakes which took place between Langjökull ice cap and the highland road Kjölur on the western side of the ice cap these last days and it…
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