According to Rúv News this evening. A small glacier flood started flowing from Mýrdalsjökull glacier (Katla volcano) few days ago. According to local farmer in the area. Glacier floods like this are common and several have taken place during this summer, none of them have created damage. The current glacier flood is from a glacier river called Leirá river. This glacier flood is from an cauldron somewhere close to middle of Mýrdalsjökull glacier. There is small risk of damage to local roads and fiber optics cable in the area. Some glacier breakage has been reported in the glacier where the floods comes from.
I am going to update this blog post if anything major happens with this glacier flood.
Update 1: It now appears that this glacier flood is now appearing on Rjúpnafell SIL station. So far just on this only SIL station. But that might change at any time if this glacier flood grows in size.
The tremor from the glacier flood can be see at the end of this harmonic trace. The spike is an earthquake in Katla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Meteorological Office.
Icelandic news about this.
Lítið hlaup í Leirá (Rúv.is, Icelandic)
Blog post updated at 00:07 UTC on 14.07.2012.
Just wondering, has it been quiet in Iceland (due to the volcanoes), cause there hasnt been new posts in a few days? 🙂
It has been general quiet all around in Iceland for the past few weeks. So while that is. I have been using the time to get some summer time off, and attend to my other writings when I can.
But soon as anything interesting happens in Iceland. I am going to write about it.