{"id":4837,"date":"2014-08-28T01:38:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2014-08-28T02:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:14:58","slug":"unclear-what-is-happening-in-bardarbunga-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4837","title":{"rendered":"Unclear what is happening in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This information is going to get outdated <em>extremely fast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earthquake activity remains high.<\/li>\n<li>Cauldron have formed in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier just SE and SSE of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano.<\/li>\n<li>The cauldrons are 4 to 6 km long and about 1 km wide.<\/li>\n<li>No harmonic tremor have been seen, but that might have its own reasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315.jpeg\" alt=\"140827_2315\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315-271x300.jpeg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano for past 48 hours. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315_trace.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315_trace.jpeg\" alt=\"140827_2315_trace\" width=\"540\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315_trace.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/140827_2315_trace-300x97.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity remains dense in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano for the past 48 hours. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dyn.svd_.27.08.2014.at_.23.22.utc_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dyn.svd_.27.08.2014.at_.23.22.utc_.gif\" alt=\"dyn.svd.27.08.2014.at.23.22.utc\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4840\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarmonic tremor remains high on Dyngjuh\u00e1ls SIL station. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/kre.svd_.27.08.2014.at_.23.23.utc_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/kre.svd_.27.08.2014.at_.23.23.utc_.gif\" alt=\"kre.svd.27.08.2014.at.23.23.utc\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4841\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarmonic tremor is also high on Kreppuhraun SIL station. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cauldrons that have been spotted today in Vatnaj\u00f6kull just SE and SSE of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano are in the south end are of the current dyke. What is also important, they are also in an area were magnitude 5,0 earthquake did happen few days ago, in a area that has not had any dyke activity since 16-August-2014 when this all started. It is still unclear what happened to all the water in this melt, the glacier in this area is 400 to 600 meters thick and this is not a little melt that has taken place in the glacier. There is a chance the water did go to Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tns lake (caldera like in Gr\u00edmsfjall volcano), but that remains unclear at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to post more information about this once I have them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated at 00:14 UTC on 28-August-2014.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This information is going to get outdated extremely fast. Earthquake activity remains high. Cauldron have formed in Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier just SE and SSE of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. The cauldrons are 4 to 6 km long and about 1 km wide. No harmonic tremor have been seen, but that might have its own reasons. &nbsp; Earthquake activity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=4837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unclear what is happening in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga 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":[7,24,10,34,33,17,89,82,64,40,57,53,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-eruptions","category-glacier-flood","category-gps-data","category-gps-monitoring","category-lava","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-swarm","category-vatnajokull-glacier","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","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=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}