{"id":8035,"date":"2019-08-08T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T22:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2019-08-08T22:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T22:48:36","slug":"oraefajokull-volcano-leaking-gas-into-a-glacier-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8035","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano leaking gas into a glacier lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today (8-August-2019) that gas has started to appear from <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=374010\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull<\/a> volcano. It is not clear from the news when this gas was discovered but it might have been just few days ago. Icelandic Met Office has already made attempts to collect the gas for analyse, last attempt failed due to how little gas is coming from the ground. That might change as this situation changes. What type of gas is leaking out is not known but there is a good chance that this is mostly CO2, SO2. It has been quiet in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano in recent weeks. It is a question if this lack of activity is what happens with some volcanoes just before an eruption as is indicated by a study that was done few years ago (information about the study can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/06\/160623150201.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What this means is unclear. Earthquake activity remains at minimum in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano. There is a chance this gas is a signal for more earthquake activity even if an eruption doesn&#8217;t happen. It is unclear what happens before an eruption in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano since last eruption took place in 1727 3rd of August to 1728 1st May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190808_1610.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190808_1610.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190808_1610.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190808_1610-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEarthquake activity in \u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano today. 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Icelandic Met Office has already made attempts to collect the gas for analyse, last attempt failed due to how little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00d6r\u00e6faj\u00f6kull volcano leaking gas into a glacier lake&#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":[87,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oraefajokull","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035","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=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8037,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}