During Week 23 there hasn’t been a lot of activity taking place. Normal minor-earthquake activity has been taking place all over Iceland, some glacier earthquakes have been seen in Vatnajökull glacier. This spread out earthquake activity is normal for Iceland, it is also easily detected in Iceland due to the dense seismometer network in Iceland. Earthquake activity continues in Bárðarbunga volcano.
Normal earthquake activity in Iceland at the moment. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Meteorologist Office.
At the moment the earthquake activity in Iceland is within normal background levels. Minor earthquake activity is almost always taking place in Iceland, there are few days when no earthquakes happen, but those days are rare and it is long between them. At the moment there is nothing to report in terms of the activity in Iceland.
Work schedule
This summer I am working Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 16:00. This means if anything happens I won’t me aware of it until I get back from work.
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Article updated at 20:48 UTC.
Article updated at 23:04 UTC.
Hello there, I visit your blog every week and your work is great. It’s good how you update your blogs very often.
I am a big fan in Iceland geology too and aspiring to be a volcanologist in Iceland. I do visit other web pages across the Internet but they aren’t always as upto date.
But many thanks for your great work, Natasha
Your commitment to getting that debt down is an inspiration.
Wednesday
10.06.2015 19:13:10 64.659 -17.511 6.3 km 3.3 99.0 2.2 km NNE of Bárðarbunga
It’s been a long tine since we’ve seen a green star at Bardy and again in the NNE corner…
IMO now says there are now signs of magma movement.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.3 has occurred under the northern caldera rim of Bárðarbunga today at 19:13 (10 June). Only few aftershocks have followed and the activity has already declined since. The event today was however the strongest earthquake in the region since the end of the Holhraun eruption in February. There are now signs of magma movements or the beginning of another earthquake sequence. IMO will closely follow the activity and inform in case of any developments.
Source: http://en.vedur.is/#tab=skjalftar
The IMO statement for this evening.
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An earthquake of magnitude 3.3 has occurred under the northern caldera rim of Bárðarbunga today at 19:13 (10 June). Only few aftershocks have followed and the activity has already declined since. The event today was however the strongest earthquake in the region since the end of the Holhraun eruption in February. There are no signs of magma movements or the beginning of another earthquake sequence. IMO will closely follow the activity and inform in case of any developments.
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Currently there are no signs of magma movement. That might change without warning.
Yeah that’s my bad. I copied it before they edited it.
Question. If it is magma then where does it go since at that part of the caldera is where it has seen the most subsidence and I would imagine that area (chamber or sill) would be pretty empty of magma.
I have written new article about the earthquake in Bárðarbunga volcano.