{"id":1237,"date":"2011-07-21T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2011-07-21T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T08:11:07","slug":"small-glacier-flood-from-myrdalsjokull-glacier-katla-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Small glacier flood from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (Katla volcano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the night (and when I had unstable power) there was a small glacier flood from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull volcano. Some minor harmonic tremor change was detected following this glacier flood. This even was small one, many times smaller then what did happen on the 8 to 9 July 2011. Due to security concerns the Civil Emergency Authority did close the main road in Iceland for this area. Since they never know how big the flood can actually be. The main road was closed for about one hour. This glacier flood was detected around midnight 20 to 21 July 2011. <\/p>\n<p>This flood is actually so small it is hard to see it on the harmonic tremor plot from the SIL stations around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-03=\" target=\"_blank\">Katla volcano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/alf.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/alf.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"alf.21.july.2011.07.50.utc\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/alf.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_.gif 640w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/alf.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTremor plot from 07:50 UTC this morning. It is hard to see the harmonic tremor from this minor glacier flood. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/hvo.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/hvo.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"hvo.21.july.2011.07.50.utc\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/hvo.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_.gif 640w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/hvo.21.july_.2011.07.50.utc_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTremor plot from 07:50 UTC this morning. It is hard to see the harmonic tremor from this minor glacier flood. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sly.21.july_.2011.07.51.utc_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sly.21.july_.2011.07.51.utc_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"sly.21.july.2011.07.51.utc\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sly.21.july_.2011.07.51.utc_.gif 640w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sly.21.july_.2011.07.51.utc_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTremor plot from 07:50 UTC this morning. It is hard to see the harmonic tremor from this minor glacier flood. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What happens next is impossible to know for now. But it seems that activity continues to be high in Katla volcano. All that can be done is to wait and see what happens. But I am going to continue to monitor the changes in Katla volcano as best that I can do until I finish my summer job (29. July).<\/p>\n<p>Icelandic News about this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visir.is\/aukin-leidni-i-mulakvisl-og-oroi-i-myrdalsjokli\/article\/2011110729868\" target=\"_blank\">Aukin lei\u00f0ni \u00ed M\u00falakv\u00edsl og \u00f3r\u00f3i \u00ed M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kli<\/a> (V\u00edsir.is, Icelandic)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2011\/07\/21\/naid_fylgst_med_myrdalsjokli\/\" target=\"_blank\">N\u00e1i\u00f0 fylgst me\u00f0 M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kli<\/a> (mbl.is, Icelandic)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/hringvegurinn-opinn-a-ny-0\" target=\"_blank\">Hringvegurinn opinn \u00e1 n\u00fd<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/breytingar-i-mulakvisl\" target=\"_blank\">Breytingar \u00ed M\u00falakv\u00edsl<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night (and when I had unstable power) there was a small glacier flood from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull volcano. Some minor harmonic tremor change was detected following this glacier flood. This even was small one, many times smaller then what did happen on the 8 to 9 July 2011. Due to security concerns the Civil Emergency &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=1237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small glacier flood from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (Katla volcano)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,33,9,5,64,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-glacier-flood","category-harmonic-tremors","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}