{"id":2765,"date":"2012-07-26T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2012-07-26T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:35:15","slug":"fish-dying-in-kleifarvatn-lake-due-to-increasing-toxic-and-hydro-thermal-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"Fish dying in Kleifarvatn lake due to increasing toxic and hydro-thermal activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Icelandic news today. Fish has been dying in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kleifarvatn\" target=\"_blank\">Kleifarvatn<\/a> lake. But Kleifarvatn lake is inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/world\/volcano.cfm?vnum=1701-03=\" target=\"_blank\">Kr\u00edsuv\u00edk volcano<\/a> system. The exact reason why the fish is dying is not known at this point. But report suggests that large amount of fish has been seen dead already. I do not know how much fish there is in Kleifarvatn lake.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that hydro-thermal and hot spring activity in increasing in the lake. This also suggest that increased toxic levels (for the fish) are now changing in the lake. What toxins are at work here I do not know. But it can be assumed that it is what comes with magma.<\/p>\n<p>For the past three to four years. Kr\u00edsuv\u00edk volcano has been inflating and deflating at regular time intervals. What this means in unclear at present time. But this is signs of increased activity in the volcano anyway. Hydro-thermal and hot spring activity has also been increasing during this period. This has also been followed by increased earthquake activity in Kr\u00edsuv\u00edk volcano when inflation takes place. What happens next is impossible to know for sure. But it is clear that Kr\u00edsuv\u00edk volcano is still far away from erupting any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic news about this<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visir.is\/fiskar-i-kleifarvatni-sagdir-i-andarslitrum\/article\/2012707269959\" target=\"_blank\">Fiskar \u00ed Kleifarvatni sag\u00f0ir \u00ed andarslitrum<\/a> (V\u00edsir.is)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visir.is\/fiskar-i-kleifarvatni-sagdir-drepast-i-storum-stil\/article\/2012120729453\" target=\"_blank\">Fiskar i Kleifarvatni sag\u00f0ir drepast \u00ed st\u00f3rum st\u00edl<\/a> (V\u00edsir.is)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Icelandic news today. Fish has been dying in Kleifarvatn lake. But Kleifarvatn lake is inside Kr\u00edsuv\u00edk volcano system. The exact reason why the fish is dying is not known at this point. But report suggests that large amount of fish has been seen dead already. I do not know how much fish there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fish dying in Kleifarvatn lake due to increasing toxic and hydro-thermal activity&#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":[127,41,37,64,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-springs","category-hydrothermal","category-krysuvik","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}