{"id":7192,"date":"2017-11-18T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2017-11-18T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:26:43","slug":"uncertainly-level-declared-for-oraefajokull-volcano-aviation-code-moved-to-yellow-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=7192","title":{"rendered":"Uncertainly level declared for \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano, aviation code moved to yellow alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management declared uncertainty level for \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. Aviation colour code was also moved up to yellow alert level (can be viewed here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Current status is that a ice cauldron has formed in the centre of the \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano caldera. It is about 1 km wide and around 21 to 25 meters deep according to early measurements. This is the first time in documented history that such ice cauldrons has formed in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. It is now believed that the ice cauldron has been emptying it self all week resulting in smell of sulphur in Kv\u00ed\u00e1 glacier river. The glacier river can be viewed here<\/a> on Google Maps Street View. Currently there is not a lot of earthquake activity happening in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. This is to be expected (I guess). It is also worth noting that \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano did do in few months what took Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull volcano 16 years to do until an eruption happened.<\/p>\n

There is not a lot of details on earlier eruptions from \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Earliest eruption to our in time took place between 1727 and until 1728 (289 years). Before that an eruption took place in 1362 (655 years) and lasted for five months. Currently I don’t have a lot of information about the current status. This is due to lack of measurements as it was not expected that \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano would do this even if earthquake activity was happening in the volcano. It was only from October (it seems) that it was figured out that something was going on in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano.<\/p>\n

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\nNo earthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano during the past 48 hours (blue dot in the south part of the image). Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/em><\/p>\n

Images of the new ice cauldron can be found here<\/a> on Icelandic Met Office website.<\/p>\n

I’ll post new information in this article as needed. If anything major happens I’ll write a new article.<\/p>\n

Article updated at 16:26 UTC. Added information that I forgot.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management declared uncertainty level for \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. Aviation colour code was also moved up to yellow alert level (can be viewed here). Current status is that a ice cauldron has formed in the centre of the \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano caldera. It is about 1 km wide and around … <\/p>\n

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