{"id":7189,"date":"2017-11-18T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7189"},"modified":"2017-11-18T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T14:51:17","slug":"high-conductivity-in-glacier-rivers-coming-form-myrdalsjokull-glacier-katla-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7189","title":{"rendered":"High conductivity in glacier rivers coming form M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (Katla volcano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the last few days there has been high conductivity in glacier rivers coming from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (<a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=372030\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katla<\/a> volcano). Due to how cold it is the glacier rivers are not getting any melt water or water from clear streams and that is making the hydrothermal water stronger than normal. Current conductivity is 567\u00b5S\/cm in M\u00falakv\u00edsl in M\u00fdrdalssandur sand area (not sure where the sensor is located). Some gas has also been detected and that gas is toxic and enough amount to result in breathing problems. Measured amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrogen_sulfide\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H2S<\/a> was 1ppm and this gas is toxic.<\/p>\n<p>Some minor earthquake activity has been in Katla volcano during the last two days. That earthquake activity might be due to the emptying of the cauldrons in M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier. The magnitudes in this earthquake activity is minor and all below 2,0 at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171118_1020.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171118_1020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"642\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171118_1020.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/171118_1020-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in Katla volcano. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to know if this means anything other than cauldrons in the glacier emptying them self in nearby glacier rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last few days there has been high conductivity in glacier rivers coming from M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (Katla volcano). Due to how cold it is the glacier rivers are not getting any melt water or water from clear streams and that is making the hydrothermal water stronger than normal. Current conductivity is 567\u00b5S\/cm in M\u00falakv\u00edsl &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High conductivity in glacier rivers coming form M\u00fdrdalsj\u00f6kull glacier (Katla 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":[10,170,196,5,40,172,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-gas","category-glacier-river","category-katla-myrdalsjokull","category-monitoring","category-toxic","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189","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=7189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7191,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions\/7191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}