Yesterday (17-August-2015) a swarm of small earthquakes took place in Katla volcano. This type of activity has been happening place this summer and has been happening for several years now. The reason for this is that magma is pushing or moving in the magma chamber of Katla volcano.
Earthquake activity in Katla volcano, the cluster of earthquakes is the deep earthquake activity. Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Met Office.
The dept of this earthquake swarm was around 27 – 18 km. Meaning it was taking place deep inside the magma chamber of Katla volcano. No other activity has been detected at Katla volcano today. This type of earthquake activity might continue for next few days to weeks.
This year we face the Godzilla El Nino of 1997 combined with a greater Icelandic Volcanic event than 1874,75. I wonder what it will bring in spring
It has become an annoyance we live with these Iceland Eruptions and our brutal weather. Winnipeg and Gimli are two centers of icelandic heritage in the North American Continent’s Eastern Prairies of canada and Upper Midwest of the USA. We live on the banks of the Red River of the North. That meandering mud colored schizoid stream turns into the Red Sea, the spring following every major and not so major Grimsvotn and Pals Burp. We know exactly what flows of 6000 m3 /s looks like on the bottom of an ancient glacial lake .in the spring of 1826, or 4300 m3/s 1862 and 1997, or 3000 m3/s springs 1950 1979 1996 2009 2011,12,13. At these flow rates the red river can spread to 40km wide and rise 10 Meters on our flat prairie.
Now as I write this it is trickling by me at 50m3/s.
While other regions of North America can look to the pacific and El Nino and La Nina influences on Climate we suffer at the fates of iceland in our communities of Gimli, Rekjavic, Baldur, Heckla, Arborg and many more. 32,000 icelandic descendents still call Manitoba home and another 20,000 have moved or retired to British Columbia on the pacific Coast of Canada. Our neighbors to the west Saskatchewan 22,000, to the south North Dakota and Minnesota.include another xx,000
Last fall and winter a major volcanic event is taking place in iceland with possible impact as great as 1875. While other regions of North America can look to the pacific and El Nino and La Nina influences on Climate we suffer at the fates of iceland in our communities of Gimli, Rekjavic, Baldur, Heckla, Arborg and many more. 32,000 icelandic descendents still call Manitoba home and another 20,000 have moved or retired to British Columbia on the pacific Coast of Canada. Our neighbors to the west Saskatchewan 22,000, to the south North Dakota and Minnesota.include another xx,000 Askja eruption ( it is already bigger in Lava ) And unknown until it is finished but similar in avg daily lava production to Laki.in 1783-5 The standard evacuation of the immediate area within 15km sufficed to protect most Icelanders most days from the occasional belches of toxic gasses and hundreds of daily earthquakes many between 3.0 and 5.7 M. The Earthquakes frequency increased as did their severity. Then they suddenly started to come from 10 km or more underground from the Mantle itself a frightening thought. And of course the belches of lava became substantially more Toxic Extremely poisonous gas measurements of 9000 to 21000 ppk?? of SO2 detected in a seaside town that appears to be 75 to 100 Km away
The last time this happenned we were the beneficiaries of a mass emigration as well as a regional phenomenae we called the upper midwest Little Ice Age. The years after Askja from 1874 to 1899 plunged temperature records to their coldest levels in recorded history. ( which is why perhaps our records set the winter of 1913-14 only bested the previous 115 years.
Many areas in the upper midwest have large populations of Icelander families due to that wave of emigration such as GIMLI and Hekla Mb in Canada, KARLSTAD and many other parts of Minnesota and CAVALIER and the Icelandic Park in NorthernND to name a few. While other regions of North America can look to the pacific and El Nino and La Nina influences on Climate we suffer at the fates of Iceland in our communities of Gimli, Rekjavic, Baldur, Heckla, Arborg and many more. 32,000 Icelandic descendants still call Manitoba home and another 20,000 have moved or retired to British Columbia on the pacific Coast of Canada. Our neighbors to the west Saskatchewan 22,000, to the south North Dakota and Minnesota.include another xx,000
This year we face the Godzilla El Nino of 1997 combined with a greater Volcanic event than 1874,75. I wonder what it will bring in spring.
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Add to the above some chaotic jet stream activity and we could get a bad winter. In Scotland, summer temperatures have only occasionally breached 20 degree’s, mostly it’s been between 10 and 14, and we have had summer frosts too. I know that’s warmer than Iceland but its much cooler than we’re used to in summer.
There has not been a flat calm sea all year with constant winds, excepting a few brief hours. We have had to watch conditions carefully before putting to sea.
I have put two stoves in the house now and I expect to need them this winter!