Snæfellsjökull volcano is not often in the news in Iceland. But today there was a short news about it due a study that was done last summer on earthquake activity in Snæfellsjökull volcano. The study was to see if there where any earthquake activity in Snæfellsjökull volcano. The results are really interesting, the main result was there is a lot of earthquake activity in Snæfellsjökull volcano. But also that most of the earthquakes take place on the depth from 9 to 13 km depth. This study was done by Matteo Lupi and Florian Fuchs at Bonn University in Iceland.
The reasons for earthquake activity in Snæfellsjökull volcano is magma. There are not a lot of tectonic movement in Snæfellsjökull volcano area. As it is a volcano zone, but not a rift zone as is the case in most areas of Iceland. But so far it seems that there is no risk of volcano eruption for now. At least that is the opinion for the moment.
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Currently there is no permanent SIL network (IMO wants to install SIL stations, but they lack funding to do so) or other type of Seismometer network on Snæfellsnes peninsula. This is bad, because this area has three active volcanoes that erupted around 1000 years ago. Along with populated areas close to this volcanoes. I plan on trying to setup few geophones in that area if I can. But currently I do not have any money or way to install and run geophones on Snæfellsnes peninsula. My closest geophone to Snæfellsnes peninsula is at Hvammstangi village. Closest the distance is around 84 km or so to the Ljósufjöll volcano. But that means I can record earthquakes down to ML1.0 in the best weather. But since I just have one geophone in this area at the moment. I cannot locate any earthquakes. I just know that they take place.
This is based on blog post from Haraldur Sigurðsson, geologist.
Blog post and news about this in Icelandic
Jarðskjálftar undir Snæfellsjökli kalla á skjálftamælanet (blog.is, Icleandic)
Þörf á skjálftamælum við Snæfellsjökul (mbl.is, Icelandic)
Blog post updated at 20:10 UTC on 17.04.2012
Blog post updated at 20:13 UTC on 17.04.2012
Blog post updated at 15:23 UTC on 20.04.2012
Is there a connection between the volcano and the Atlantic Ocean being mostly ice-free? /ducks
No. In fact, the glacier on Snæfellsnesjökull volcano is mostly gone due to the warming up in Iceland.
Interesting EQ activity at SISZ, near Hekla.
Jón,
Do you know why all recent earthquakes have such a bad quality? Just above 30%. Is is weather related?
Thanks for your answer!
Henk
It has been quiet in Iceland for some time now. I am not sure why the earthquakes that have been recorded are in bad quality. But I do not think it has anything to do with weather.
Hey Jon, what’s going on at KVO? Noise? Weather?
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/kvo.gif
I would say that this is just traffic of some short. This is in the low land for the most part, far from any lake.
Where is it located?
Thought some here might be interested in this and have something to contribute.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/live-chat-human-triggered-earthq.html?ref=hp
It’s about fracking for natural gas, but could equally be about the similar earthquakes caused by hydrothermal work in Iceland.
Interesting earthquake at Hofsjökull. We don’t often get them there. Is the volcano there extinct or just dormant?
They happen infrequently. Maybe 1 and up to 10 pr year. But most of the time, there are no earthquakes in Hofsjökull volcano. It is extremely quiet volcano.