{"id":5371,"date":"2015-01-09T20:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2015-01-09T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:25:19","slug":"bardarbunga-volcano-update-for-9-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5371","title":{"rendered":"B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano update for 9-January-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update about the eruption in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=373030\" target=\"_blank\">B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga<\/a> volcano.<\/p>\n<p>Not much has changed since the update on Wednesday 7-Januar-2015. If there was an drop in the eruption, it was temporary and the eruption in Holuhraun has not resumed at earlier levels. At least no change has been observed from M\u00edla web cameras today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150109_1835.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150109_1835.png\" alt=\"150109_1835\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150109_1835.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150109_1835-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano for the past 48 hours. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Largest earthquake in past 24 hours had the magnitude of 5,1. That earthquake took place in North-east part of the caldera in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Smaller earthquakes have been taking place in that same area and have been doing so for the past four months. Small swarm of earthquakes have been taking place in the dyke close to the edge of the glacier. I don&#8217;t know for sure what that means at the moment, but I do not think it is a good sign. Since there is a high risk of eruption along the dyke, even if there is eruption taking place at just one location at the moment. The dyke is ~46 km long and most of it is under Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier.<\/p>\n<p>This time of the year glaciers in Iceland area adding weight to them due to snowfall. The chances are this is having effects on B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Since snowfall on Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier is around 10 to 20 meters during the winter (this depends on the year). Pressure from the glacier is currently increasing on B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano, I don&#8217;t know for sure what effects that is having, but it is my best <strong>guess<\/strong> that it is slowing down what is happening in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Glaciers start to get lighter in June to September each year when the summer melt starts again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article updated at 22:25 UTC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update about the eruption in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano. Not much has changed since the update on Wednesday 7-Januar-2015. If there was an drop in the eruption, it was temporary and the eruption in Holuhraun has not resumed at earlier levels. At least no change has been observed from M\u00edla web cameras today. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=5371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano update for 9-January-2015&#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":[7,169,18,24,10,34,71,170,17,89,9,173,82,64,40,171,57,53,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bararbunga","category-caldera","category-deflation","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-eruptions","category-fissures","category-gas","category-gps-data","category-gps-monitoring","category-harmonic-tremors","category-holuhraun","category-lava","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-so2","category-swarm","category-vatnajokull-glacier","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}