{"id":2748,"date":"2012-07-13T22:47:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2012-07-14T02:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:07:20","slug":"small-glacier-flood-from-myrdalsjokull-glacier-katla-volcano-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"Small glacier flood from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (Katla volcano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to R\u00fav News this evening. A small glacier flood started flowing from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-03=\" target=\"_blank\">Katla volcano<\/a>) few days ago. According to local farmer in the area. Glacier floods like this are common and several have taken place during this summer, none of them have created damage. The current glacier flood is from a glacier river called Leir\u00e1 river. This glacier flood is from an cauldron somewhere close to middle of M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. There is small risk of damage to local roads and fiber optics cable in the area. Some glacier breakage has been reported in the glacier where the floods comes from.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to update this blog post if anything major happens with this glacier flood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 1:<\/strong> It now appears that this glacier flood is now appearing on Rj\u00fapnafell SIL station. So far just on this only SIL station. But that might change at any time if this glacier flood grows in size.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rju.14.07.2012.00.04.utc_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rju.14.07.2012.00.04.utc_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"rju.14.07.2012.00.04.utc\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rju.14.07.2012.00.04.utc_.gif 640w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rju.14.07.2012.00.04.utc_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe tremor from the glacier flood can be see at the end of this harmonic trace. The spike is an earthquake in Katla volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Iceland Meteorological Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Icelandic news about this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/litid-hlaup-i-leira\" target=\"_blank\">L\u00edti\u00f0 hlaup \u00ed Leir\u00e1<\/a> (R\u00fav.is, Icelandic)<\/p>\n<p><em>Blog post updated at 00:07 UTC on 14.07.2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to R\u00fav News this evening. A small glacier flood started flowing from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (Katla volcano) few days ago. According to local farmer in the area. Glacier floods like this are common and several have taken place during this summer, none of them have created damage. The current glacier flood is from a glacier &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2748\" 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":[33,41,5,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glacier-flood","category-hydrothermal","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}