Today (14-November-2016) a minor earthquake swarm started on TFZ (Tjörnes Fracture Zone). Largest earthquake so far has the magnitude of 3,2, other earthquakes have been smaller in magnitude.
The earthquake activity in TFZ. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.
So far this earthquake swarm has not been big and it doesn’t look like its going to develop into a big earthquake swarm at the moment. In other parts of Iceland everything is quiet, with just one off or few earthquakes happening in each location.
Monday
14.11.2016 14:33:36 66.617 -17.850 10.0 km 3.3 99.0 11.0 km NE of Grímsey
Monday
14.11.2016 12:29:56 66.651 -17.890 12.7 km 3.2 99.0 13.2 km NNE of Grímsey
There was an M0.8 at 7.5 km depth in the Katla caldera this morning.
Wondering if this little push will result in any further magmatic activity. I hope so, since Katla hasn’t been very exciting to monitor lately 🙂
Conductivity in Mulakvisl rising steadily aswell. 169 microsiemens/cm right now.
Weeell, I guess not.
What about the 1.8 and 2.3 at only 100 meters depth w an sw of Landmannalaugar. Tectonic?
Maybe hydrothermal in nature. This type of activity is common in Torfajökull volcano.
Conductivity of Múlakvísk spiked sharply in the night to 209 – is this likely to be genuine or a measuring equipment issue?
This is real, I don’t think its an equipment problem.
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Múlakvísl V0089 seems to be showing no data for conductivity or anything else after 16:00 yesterday which is odd.
Can you post a link to the Múlakvísl V0089 data please?
http://vmkerfi.vedur.is/vatn/index.html is the link you just select Myrdalsjökull from the left have menu.
Thank you very much Kay Tina Cook. Unfortunately, I am prompted for a username and password.
Username and password are written on the site…in the yellow field
You can also go here, select some station and go to “Mýrdalsjökull” area on the left.
http://en.vedur.is/#tab=vatnafar
Thanks everyone. Got it now.
Conductivity dropped sharply to -5,755 now since yesterday.
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It appears there was some type of hardware failure or loss of connection. It is back now and is report conductivity of 176.
Conductivity jumped to 220 in Múlakvísl right now.
Minor or the beginning of a Eq swarm at Katla right now
There was a deep EQ in Katla yesterday morning (M0.7 at 12.3 km depth). This swarm might be triggered by that deep magmatic quake.
I didn’t notice until now that the AUS station is offline since Nov 14. Hope they get it running again, soon.
Katla has been more interesting today. Conductivity in Múlakvisl was 280.5 earlier today, now it has dropped “only” to around 180.
There is also more earthquake activity today than during previous days (so far 32 during the past 48 hours, most of those occurring today), but 3 eq:s between 2 and 3, deepest occurring at 3km.
I think I’ll be keeping a little closer eye to Katla again.
Friday
18.11.2016 19:02:35 64.646 -17.358 0.4 km 3.0 99.0 8.1 km E of Bárðarbunga
two more :
Saturday 19.11.2016 04:50:41 AM 64.675 -17.453 6.4 km 4.0 99 5.2 km NE of Bárðarbunga
Saturday 19.11.2016 02:31:12 AM 64.681 -17.53 8.0 km 3.0 99 4.5 km N of Bárðarbunga
There is now new articles on Katla & Bárðarbunga volcanoes.