{"id":3962,"date":"2013-10-11T22:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2013-10-12T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T01:45:10","slug":"source-of-the-glacier-flood-in-hofsjokull-volcano-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"Source of the glacier flood in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August-2013 there was an glacier flood from Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano, this <a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3805\" target=\"_blank\">glacier flood<\/a> was minor and did not cause any damage. The source of this glacier flood has now been found according to Icelandic Meteorological Office. A new glacier cauldron has been found in Hofsj\u00f6kull glacier, where none was before. The cauldron is around 700 meters long and about 30 &#8211; 50 meters deep. The glacier is cracked a lot around the cauldron and it&#8217;s dangerous to travel to this area because of that. The hight of this cauldron is around 1700 meters above sea level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hofsjokull_24sept2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3963\" alt=\"hofsjokull_24sept2013\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hofsjokull_24sept2013-1024x724.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hofsjokull_24sept2013-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hofsjokull_24sept2013-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHofsj\u00f6kull volcano and glacier. The new glacier cauldron is located at ~64\u00b049,5\u2018N; 18\u00b052\u2018W. Click on the image for full resolution. <em>Image from NASA\/USGS\/Icelandic Meteorological Office\/Geological Department of University of Iceland (Jar\u00f0v\u00edsindastofnun H\u00e1sk\u00f3lans).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Icelandic Meteorological Office this part of the glacier has not had any glacier cauldrons before that they know of. This cauldron has the volume of 1 million cubic meters (10<sup>6<\/sup> m<sup>3<\/sup>) according to Icelandic Meteorological Office. This area now has highly active hydro-thermal area and hot-springs. What formed this glacier cauldron is unclear at the moment, it was not an eruption since no such signals have been recorded from Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano before or after the glacier flood in August-2013. It is also unclear if this glacier cauldron is going to create new glacier flood in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic Meteorological Office announcement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vedur.is\/um-vi\/frettir\/nr\/2767\" target=\"_blank\">Hlaup \u00far Hofsj\u00f6kli \u00ed \u00e1g\u00fast 2013<\/a> (vedur.is, in Icelandic)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Icelandic News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2013\/10\/11\/fundu_sigketil_a_hofsjokli\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fundu sigketil \u00e1 Hofsj\u00f6kli<\/a> (mbl.is, Icelandic)<\/p>\n<p><em>Blog post updated at 21:02 UTC on 11-October-2013.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Blog post updated at 01:45 UTC on 12-October-2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August-2013 there was an glacier flood from Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano, this glacier flood was minor and did not cause any damage. The source of this glacier flood has now been found according to Icelandic Meteorological Office. A new glacier cauldron has been found in Hofsj\u00f6kull glacier, where none was before. The cauldron is around 700 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Source of the glacier flood in Hofsj\u00f6kull volcano found&#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":[24,33,29,127,41,64,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-glacier-flood","category-hofsjokul","category-hot-springs","category-hydrothermal","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","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=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}