Yesterday (13-July-2017) an earthquake swarm took place in Katla volcano. As earthquake swarms goes this one was minor one and largest magnitude was only 2,7 all other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude.
Earthquake activity in Katla volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.
One magnitude 2,5 earthquake happened today (14-July-2017) at 16:29 UTC. Since then everything has been quiet in Katla volcano. This current repeating earthquake pattern is starting to look like long term signs that Katla volcano is going to erupt soon. How long is not known, but it is my best guess that an eruption might happen either this fall or next year (2018). It is not possible to get any better idea how long it might be until an eruption happens in Katla volcano.
Update 1 (July-15 earthquake activity)
At 19:12 UTC on 15-July-2017 a magnitude 3,3 earthquake took place in Katla volcano. Earthquakes that followed where smaller in magnitude, with only one having magnitude 2,8 today (16-July-2017) at 10:51 UTC. I was unable to record it due to high noise level on my geophone.
The earthquake activity in Katla volcano during last 48 hours. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.
Earthquake activity has quieted down again for now in Katla volcano.
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Article updated at 22:22 UTC on 16-July-2017. New information added.
July 15 2007 a 3.3 at 4.5 km N of Hábunga
Yep, with a depth of 0.1 km.
Hydrothermal? If not it’s very shallow for that may.
That’s long ago Jack!
Looks like opening of Katla’s active season. Resuming my watch…
I’ll post an update about this magnitude 3,3 earthquake here later today.
Thanks for updates, Jon!
Just turned on my computer, haven’t even looked at the other stations nearby. Is it windy, or something going on?
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/drumplot/drumplot/aus_highpass_2.0.png
Only Slysaalda seems to show the same ‘tremor’ among the Myrdalsjökull stations. But only the blue band seems affected. Local wind?
There is a strong wind in the area at the moment. Summer storm approaching Iceland.
http://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/elements/#type=wind
Have you seen Austmannsbunga tremor? Only one plotter with
Wind noise hmmmmm
I got a bit excited too :). Austmannsbunga is located at a much higher altitude than the other stations in that area, that is probably why.
Got a reply from the met office, there is really bad whether up there 🙂
Sad to say, the map site volcanodiscovery.com seems to be no more. Does anyone have a suggestion for an alternate site to view Iceland earthquakes on a map?
Hi Mudpot goto Icelandic met office and hit earthquakes
Thank you. It looks like volcanodiscovery.com is back, I suspect they had to renew certificate.
No problem at least it’s back on
Looks like one big EQ, or a series of smaller ones, occcured a moment ago. In Katla caldera. Most probably a green star. Drumplot shows a lot of small ‘popping’ over the last hours.
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/alert/2017/jul/21/100.html
Looking at the table on en.vedur.is for Myrdalsjokull area showed much of that activity at 0.1 km depth including the 3.1 quake. Interesting times.
Saturday 22.07.2017 22:18:50 63.650 -19.056 0.1 km 3.2 99.0 8.0 km NNE of Hábunga