Before I start writing I wish to reiterate the following. The official judgement on any eruption in Iceland is solely within the hands of Icelandic Met Office (IMO) and Almannavarnadeild ríkislögreglustjóra. Untill they release a Stonetablet stating that an eruption has started there is officially no eruption. Ash from an eruption I have now had…
Bárdarbunga The Bárdarbunga volcanic system is the largest in Iceland and it has erupted more lava than any other volcano on the planet in the last 10 000 years. The volcanic system is 200 kilometers long and 25 kilometers wide. The central volcano has a seventy square kilometer caldera that is ten kilometers across. Technically it…
I thought that I should write a short recapitulation on what has been going on during the summer in Iceland for those who have been otherwise occupied with gardening, beach visits and other general summer activities. I also think that it would be good with a general recapitulation for everyone. As always I am not…
Lately the internet has been filled with the usual doom and gloom about Katla. And since there has actually been a bit of unusual behavior I find it merited to actually write about the volcano. Background on Katla The volcano resides under the Myrdalsjökull glacier and it is one of the larger volcanoes on Iceland.…
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…
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