During the night of 4-February-2019 a earthquake with the magnitude of 2,6 took place in Öræfajökull volcano. This earthquake was the start of an earthquake swarm that is currently ongoing.
Earthquake activity in Öræfajökull volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.
This is normal pattern for Öræfajökull volcano in recent months. Rate of earthquake activity in Öræfajökull volcano appears to continue to be going up. This means that injection of magma into Öræfajökull volcano continues at what appears to be at similar rate as before.
Moving website hosting
Because of Brexit I am moving my hosting from UK to US this week. In general people should not notice this if they have their DNS setting set up correctly. But it might take up to 48 hours for them to update on slower DNS servers (that is not common today, but can happen if your router is your DNS).
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Earthquakes are now mostly above 3 km.
Previously they were mostly between 5 and 7 km.
In 2014, before the eruption of the Kelud volcano, a 3 km deep seismic swarm occurred.
Jón, just to say that on your Reykjanes post today the comments option is switched off. Obviously, I don’t know if that is intentional.
Moving dedicated hosts
This website is moving again in next few hours. Because of this I have disabled comments until the transfer is complete to the new server.
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Please note this!
This is just a temporary setting.