This morning at 07:03 UTC on 21. August 2012 an earthquake swarm started in Katla volcano. This earthquake swarm lasted for few minutes with the last earthquake taking place at 07:50 UTC. No harmonic tremor was detected following this earthquake swarm in Katla volcano. Update 1: The largest earthquake in this earthquake swarm had the magnitude of 2.6 at the depth of 0.1 km.
Earthquake activity in Katla volcano this morning. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorological Office.
It is impossible to know for sure what this activity means. But this might just be normal autumn activity in Katla volcano. I am expecting more earthquake activity in Katla volcano in next few days to weeks.
Icelandic news about this earthquake activity
Skjálfti í Mýrdalsjökli (Rúv.is, Icelandic)
Jarðskjálfti upp á 3,1 stig í Mýrdalsjökli (Vísir.is, Icelandic)
3,1 stigs skjálfti í Mýrdalsjökli (mbl.is, Icelandic)
Blog post updated at 15:18 UTC on 21.08.2012. I have not yet fully recovered from the heat wave. I forgot the important information about this swarm. They have now been added.
Do you have or know of any longer term data on the this region? I’d be interested to see how the seismicity has changed of the months and years. Really like this site by the way!
Here since 1999:
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla/katla_cal_qu_new.png
And here for the last 15 days:
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla/myr_allt.html
Hi Jack,
Thanks a lot – those are great summaries for the seismic activity.
Sorry to post this here Jon but you can delete once read.
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/simnet.is#comment
Your web cam site has been blacklisted and got a red WOT warning. I thought you ought to know so you can take some action.
My web page is all clear when I use Google Chrome (and Firefox) to view them. There is in fact nothing to exploit on my web page. But there are user pages on simnet.is (this is an ISP hosting page for people web pages) that have been exploited in the past. Just not my web page.
I have contacted Síminn. Who is the owner of this web site and let them know about this issue.
As for your filter. I think it is a dubious one. Thanks for letting me know. But it is not my web page that is at fault here. It might be someone else that however is.