{"id":5165,"date":"2014-10-17T23:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2014-10-18T01:46:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T23:46:43","slug":"friday-update-for-bardarbunga-volcano-on-17-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5165","title":{"rendered":"Friday update for B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano on 17-October-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano eruption in Holuhraun did reach one big milestone today (17-October-2014). It is now the largest eruption in Iceland since the eruption in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laki\" target=\"_blank\">Laki<\/a> (Skaft\u00e1reldar) in 1783 &#8211; 1784 eruption. By volume the lava field in Holuhraun is now larger than the 1947 eruption in <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372070\" target=\"_blank\">Hekla<\/a> volcano that is 0,8 km\u00b3 by volume and took 13 months to erupt that amount of lava. Current size of the lava field in Holuhraun is larger then 59 square kilometres (km\u00b2) in size, or around 0,83 km\u00b3 by volume according to University of Iceland <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uni_iceland\/status\/523194050279903234\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a> on this matter. University of Iceland also has new map of the lava field, I just don&#8217;t know how to link to that image here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/141017_2100.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/141017_2100.jpeg\" alt=\"141017_2100\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/141017_2100.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/141017_2100-271x300.jpeg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity today in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano and Tungnafellsj\u00f6kull volcano to the left. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquake today had the magnitude of 4,4. Second largest earthquake today had the magnitude of 4,2. Other earthquakes have been smaller today and there has been less earthquake activity today compared to earlier this week (Week 42). There was not big change in the eruption in Holuhraun today according to the news, the magma that did erupt today was reported to be more gas rich then in past few days or weeks. There is no major change taking place in the dyke area according to GPS measurements from the area around B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. The GPS mesurements can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/strokkur.raunvis.hi.is\/gps\/#VATN\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. New images of the eruption in Holuhraun can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbl.is\/frettir\/innlent\/2014\/10\/17\/glaenyjar_myndir_af_eldgosinu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. So far I have not read or seen anything more taking place in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. If everything stays quiet (I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t do that), I plan to have next update on Monday 20-October-2014 if no major activity takes place.<\/p>\n<p>I wish everyone a good weekend.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nArticle updated at 23:46 UTC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano eruption in Holuhraun did reach one big milestone today (17-October-2014). It is now the largest eruption in Iceland since the eruption in Laki (Skaft\u00e1reldar) in 1783 &#8211; 1784 eruption. By volume the lava field in Holuhraun is now larger than the 1947 eruption in Hekla volcano that is 0,8 km\u00b3 by volume and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday update for B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano on 17-October-2014&#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":[7,169,168,24,10,34,71,17,89,9,19,82,64,40,65,57,85,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-caldera","category-collapse","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-eruptions","category-fissures","category-gps-data","category-gps-monitoring","category-harmonic-tremors","category-inflation","category-lava","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-rift-zone","category-swarm","category-tremor-plots","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","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=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}