46 Replies to “Merry Christmas 2011”

  1. Jón, you and your family a Merry Christmas. Make the next year so forth, you are doing a great job with your blog. Great thank you for that. 🙂

  2. Merry Christmas Jon!

    Thank you for this seismic season, looking forward to the next!

    Cheers
    Christian

  3. Merry Christmas to you and your family, Jon.

    Thank you for a great and informative blog; I have learned a lot.

  4. Has IMO taken the day off? No EQs reported since:
    Saturday
    24.12.2011 08:56:32 63.640 -19.138 1.2 km 2.2 99.0 5.5 km E of Goðabunga

  10. Merry Christmas all, and best wishes for New Year. And a special thanks to Jon for this great blog! And also thanks to our volcanoes, may they rest peacefully and not disrupt our holiday! Well…not too much…

  15. Happy holidays 🙂

    This site has been great. Hopefully those volcanoes will act slow enough to avoid major havoc.

  17. Merry chrismas to everyone!

    Sidenote; I weight 1,9 kgs more than yesterday…. GOOD Christmas dinner yesterday 😀

  20. Sunday
    25.12.2011 14:31:36 63.662 -19.176 0.7 km 2.5 90.04 4.4 km NE of Goðabunga
    Sunday
    25.12.2011 14:31:18 63.666 -19.175 1.1 km -0.5 63.99 4.7 km NE of Goðabunga
    Sunday
    25.12.2011 14:29:55 63.661 -19.170 2.7 km 1.7 90.04 4.6 km ENE of Goðabunga
    Sunday
    25.12.2011 10:03:04 63.639 -19.415 14.5 km -0.3 58.91 5.3 km SE of Básar
    Sunday
    25.12.2011 08:45:05 63.682 -19.263 3.3 km 2.0 30.31 4.7 km N of Goðabunga

  24. Hope Candle beggar buys some fireworks for new years eve (seeing as he needed to be rescued) 🙂

  27. Happy Christmas Jon, and everyone here. It has been an eventful year, and thanks to you all for all the shared moments.

    1. Seems they want to eventually build a power plant, wonder if an aluminium smelting plant will end being nearby?

      1. I wonder what an ‘acceptable’ price was for the energy? We have plans going on for a 3rd nuclear power plant in Somerset!

      2. There was a nice display of Nacreous clouds this morning all over North Iceland.

        Some pictures from Siglufjordur
        http://svennisiglo.123.is/album/default.aspx?aid=218952
        Husavik
        http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2011/12/27/glitsky_gledja_augun/
        Eyjafjordur
        http://www.dv.is/frettir/2011/12/27/storkostleg-glitsky-akureyri/#myndagallery

        It is unusually cold in the stratosphere .
        Since the start of winter 2010, to March 2011, there has been a 40 percent loss in the ozone layer over the Arctic

      3. Some information about the ozone layer.
        http://tv.ibtimes.com/large-ozone-layer-hole-over-arctic-shows-unprecedented-loss/2079.html

        I have been wondering if this has to do with increased volcanic activity in Iceland.
        I think volcanoes emit various types of gasses for a while before, during and after eruptions.
        It would not surprise me if the cold snap of 1918 was a part of the build up to a eruption later that year.
        This fast erosion of the ozone lair can not be man made, as there is a decrease in the output of ozone destructive material, the size and speed of the erosion would suggest some other factor.

      4. I’ve seen nacreous clouds a few times on my winter trips to Northern Sweden, once you have seen them you never forget it!

  30. @Jon:

    Hengill seems to have a few not so shallow quakes and without human activities. Is this anything worth looking at?

    1. I wouldn’t suppose that this is without human influence. I think these are the places of boreholes for (the northeastern ones) the p0wer station of Nesjavellir resp. (the southwestern ones) Hellisheidi power station.

    2. Could be.

      If I remember correctly the EQs from fracking should be in the region of the 2km depth. So most of today’s EQs, if I am correct, are from natural events.

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