Earthquake in Hekla volcano

Today (04.05.2013) at 05:06 UTC a magnitude 1.5 earthquake took place in Hekla volcano. This earthquake had the depth of 7.8 km. No other earthquakes have so far taken place following this earthquake and no change has taken place in tremor plots around Hekla volcano. This earthquake follows a pattern of earthquakes that have been taking place in Hekla volcano for the past several weeks.

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The earthquake in Hekla volcano. Copyright of this picture belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.

My Heklubyggð geophone is currently offline due to network problems in the area. I do not know when they are going to be resolved, it might take few days. Data is being recorded currently if the computer that handles this task is up and running.