{"id":8576,"date":"2020-08-19T23:57:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8576"},"modified":"2020-08-20T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:57:49","slug":"unexpected-glacier-flood-from-south-langjokull-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8576","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected glacier flood from south Langj\u00f6kull glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 17-August-2020 a glacier flood took place from south Langj\u00f6kull glacier. This glacier flood seems to have been unexpected and was it seems rather large. It killed fish in the rivers it flooded. This might be connected to a volcano called Presthnj\u00fakar but that remains unclear at the writing of this article. There has been no earthquake or other activity in this area in recent days above background level.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nUpdate 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This glacier flood took part in the western south part of Langj\u00f6kull glacier. It is not known the origin of this glacier flood due to cloud cover of the glacier yesterday (19-August-2020).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>R\u00fav News published an news today (20-August-2020) with videos of the area where the flood did come from. This was a glacier lake that emptied it self by breaking trough the end of Langj\u00f6kull glacier resulting in this glacier flood.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nNews in Icelandic with a video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/2020\/08\/20\/thad-hefur-enginn-sed-neitt-i-likingu-vid-thetta\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201e\u00dea\u00f0 hefur enginn s\u00e9\u00f0 neitt \u00ed l\u00edkingu vi\u00f0 \u00feetta\u201c<\/a> (R\u00fav.is)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article in Icelandic with pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skessuhorn.is\/2020\/08\/19\/stor-spyja-hljop-fram-hvita-og-rennsli-arinnar-naer-threfaldadist\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">St\u00f3r sp\u00fdja hlj\u00f3p fram Hv\u00edt\u00e1 og rennsli \u00e1rinnar n\u00e6r \u00ferefalda\u00f0ist<\/a> (skessuhorn.is)<\/p>\n<p><em>Update at 02:50 UTC on 20-August-2020.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Updated at 20:57 UTC on 20-August-2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 17-August-2020 a glacier flood took place from south Langj\u00f6kull glacier. This glacier flood seems to have been unexpected and was it seems rather large. It killed fish in the rivers it flooded. This might be connected to a volcano called Presthnj\u00fakar but that remains unclear at the writing of this article. There has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=8576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unexpected glacier flood from south Langj\u00f6kull glacier&#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":[55,40,56,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-langjokull-glacier-south","category-monitoring","category-presthnjukar","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576","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=8576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}