Volcano Watch 2014

Cool
This is my 'I hope I am wrong' image.



Because that glow is newish, (if it is not a reflection,) and it is way to close to the cameras for my liking.


But it'd be a show if it goes.

M.

WOAH!









Blink woW

M.

a reply to: Moshpet

damn I missed that

I'll put a link to my photobucket page & you can see what I saw.
s705.photobucket.com...

Windows button + print-screen button auto takes a snapshot .

M.

a reply to: Moshpet

sweet, can you put a time on each one? or does that spoil the image?
I use Snagit, one click and it saves the whole screen, opens in Snagit editor.
I just can't get a connection with icelandlive right now

I wish it'd put times on them, but the bright flares started at 7:19 pm MST.
At about 7:30 pm MST it had faded back down to what it is currently.

(Photo bucket is being a bitxh atm, so I'm having trouble getting it to show me filenames.)

M.

follow up to post by: muzzy about steinar data versus verdur data
on the 30th August UTC
steinar had 317
verdur had 237
thats for the area
lat 64.577204 to lat 65.188378
long -18.111927 to long -16.130349

woww.,,

a reply to: BobAthome

I just said the same thing watching the live feed.

so, looking at my daily Bargarbunga graphs, comparing the 30th August with others prior.
it really went crazy just before the (approx.) time of 3rd eruption 6:00,
then back at the Bundy cone, SW slope, a M5.3 an hour later,
then it went crazy again after 18:00
does this tie in with the photos?????
volcanictremor.wordpress.com...
30th graph

whats going on now?, its smoking vertically, about to go ballistic????
or could just be the wind dropped

I love this thread, I don't post on the forum very often but I just want to thank everyone who has been keeping the thread updated.

You guys rock!

here is how I seen it this afternoon (overnight over there) (times on the pics are Iceland Standard Time, same as UTC)
bardy camera one






i don't think it was just the wind change at 04:42:42, i think it went hotter

Camera 1 is not working, but at least the second one is. There is still really strong winds, shaking the camera. You can see smoke and lava.


There are signs that the activity is gaining up again, looking from the amount of stronger quakes. Weaker ones are still masked by strong winds. All these stronger quakes happen in Bárðarbunga. I believe it can no longer stay intact and if this continues, the caldera is going to break and collapse. Just look this list and you know what I mean.

This is from the latest report on Icelandic Met office webpage

link en.vedur.is...

n the broader Askja region, most events were located at Herðubreiðartögl, the strongest event there was M2.9 at 02:56. This area is a quite common place for seismic activity, the activity now is not necessarily caused by increased stress due to the intrusion (the tip of the intrusion is about 25 km SW of this cluster). Askja volcano itself was seismically quiet last night.

I'm not convinced of this statement, especially the tip of the dyke.
I've been keeping an eye on the quakes around Askja and the pattern I see is that the dyke and it's magma flow is still on the move in a N-E direction and has past the Askja Caldera. The seismic activity seen past days in the Askja Caldera was simply the result of the stress caused by the dyke passing by and moving up N-E. As the dyke and it's magma flow has now a "clear" path to pass by and the main push is more N-E where it runs into "resistance" the stress on the Askja Caldera has been releaved.

a reply to: Nidwin

well just a reminder on that- you might want to make sure you are looking at manually reviewed quakes as opposed to auto-located quakes- because the differences can be pretty vast- in case you haven't noticed. And especially when it comes to location and depth... All you have to do is see the disparities between usgs, emsc, and the IMO data to know that is true. If you have been looking at manually reviewed quakes as a basis for your comments, then disregard this remark- but I felt it was pertinent.

a reply to: TrueAmerican

For the dyke
At both actually and at patterns (numbers of events for a certain period of time 4-8 hours max), all related to possible magma movement, directions.

I'm very carefull with "exact" locations and especially depths, even when checked and confirmed at 99,00, because of the nature of the seismic activity we're seeing here. This activity isn't tectonic in origin but "volcanic" because of magma intrusion. It's not energy being released at one specific spot with a well defined epicenter, typical tectonic activity, followed by aftershocks.

Anyway,
I never said I'm right and they're wrong. I just expressed my doubts about the statement made about the position of the dyke. And as I have kept looking at both Vatnajokull and Myvatn quake maps I'm defenitly having the feeling the dyke could have advanced much further up north-eastish over the past 3-4 days than assumed in the MET office statement.

3D Interactive Map of Earthquakes in Iceland Bardabunga Area


Thought this was interesting.

another bigger quake hit -

5.3 IMO
5.2 USGS
5.4 EMSC

that's two 5+'s in less than a day...so far.