Eyjafjallajökull Caldera Eruption

Just a little info about some ice in the crater from the volcano:

Update on activityEruption in Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland
Assessment - 17 June 2010 10:00
At the eastern, southern and western sides of the crater lake is a wall of ice. On the northern side a tephra wall rises 20 meters above the water. The ice walls at the southwestern corner of the crater are melting, i.e. at the site of the vent that was active 4 – 6 June. The rate of melting is assumed to be about one cuber meter per second.

Details on the crater lake and possible flooding in a status report issued collectively by the Icelandic Meteorological Office and the Institute of Earth Sciences on Friday night 11 June 2010 at 17:00.

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And some little quaks around the volcano:

Mýrdalsjökull - earthquakes during the last 48 hours (Preliminary results)MapTableEarthquake count:
◦Magnitude less than 1: 5
◦Magnitude 1 to 2: 0
◦Magnitude 2 to 3: 0
◦Magnitude more than 3: 0
◦Total: 5
Earthquakes shown: All earthquakes Magnitude 1 and larger Magnitude 2 and larger Magnitude 3 and larger
Earthquake table Date Time Latitude Longitude Depth Magnitude Quality Location
Thursday
17.06.2010 04:44:27 63.638 -19.495 3.4 km 0.8 80.95 4.4 km S of Básar
Wednesday
16.06.2010 03:57:03 63.626 -19.227 1.0 km 0.4 99.0 1.9 km SE of Goðabunga
Tuesday
15.06.2010 20:25:24 63.666 -19.535 9.2 km 0.7 99.0 2.9 km WSW of Básar
Tuesday
15.06.2010 18:39:52 63.623 -19.636 0.1 km 0.6 99.0 9.7 km SW of Básar
Tuesday
15.06.2010 18:39:34 63.715 -19.648 2.4 km 0.8 99.0 9.3 km WNW of Básar
Samtals skjálftar: 5

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Tremors are very low, she is a sleeping beauty now.

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Hi there, she is now make some steamcloud down hill of the volcano on the porocam . It's now 100% clear. I hope you see this sleeping beauty??
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[edit on 17-6-2010 by ni91ck]

[edit on 17-6-2010 by ni91ck]

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She looks so peaceful now.

Woody

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Aha! I see it now

Video in Icelandic but you will get the gist of it.. the ice wall is melting fast.

I sa that the ice is melting at a rate of 1 cubic meter p/sec. That is 3.6 miljon litres a hour. that is a lot. Maybe we can fill some swimmingpools with it!

And she is still smoking downhill. Ther are still no update's yet??

Originally posted by berkeleygal
Video in Icelandic but you will get the gist of it.. the ice wall is melting fast.

Wow that is some hot tub. What happens if it erupts now with that huge lake on top. I guessing very large explosion with very high ash clouds to follow.

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I think it will be huge, but lets hope for or Icelandic friends she stays at sleeping modus. But when you look at the Porocan eldgos.mila.is... than you see the steam coming from beside and that means that the pressure is rising. And thay are now in Iceland in a mudflood alarm.

Today there appears to be more channels of warm/hot water (steaming) coming down the glacier. Steaming water is also coming out at the bottom of the glacier via the original glacier lava tunnel exit and along a channel slightly to the left of it.

There is some (small) movement on the 'rumble' monitor again.

I note once again that the red line is the dominant feature and thus we could be looking at harmonic tremor indicating magma movement.

The quake map shows a quake in Torfajokull, where there have been the odd one or two.

On a personal note, we lost the internet connection last night from 8pm until 4am. The bog was on fire and the flames melted all the cables on the receiving tower where the signal goes to land and on to the ISP. This is the second fire in as many months that has resulted in loss of internet for us. It felt like having your arms handcuffed behind your back!

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Thanks for the update PuterMan ... I continue to take a look at the cams and check-out this thread every day

As for loss of internet I agree ... you feel so incapasitated without that link to the outside world ... so pleased you're back online now. Any idea as to the cause of the fires ... this time of year we're pretty prone to fires here on the moors too.

Woody

Yeah i now what you mean....NO INTERNET CoNNECTION... So you can see what that means to humankind. A went crazy. But i can always switch to mobil

But i sa some lightning on the Porocam. Many clouds and steam at the moment. And ther a no update's at the moment. Thus anybody nows when that snifferplain fly's again?

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Glad you got your internet back up.... I remember when I lost it for a few days when Yellowstone was swarming - I was going out of my mind - I relocated until the connection was fixed. Just be thankful that you only lost it for a short period of time during a relatively quiet time. The earth seems to be resting at the moment. Sure hope it's not the calm before the storm.

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I guess the fires will be pretty much the same causes as on the moors.

• Deliberate burn off gone uncontrolled
  
• Caused by glass bottles (Not many of them these days)
  
• Carelessly tossing fags aside * (Not that they burst into flame easily)
  
• Badness
  

* No my American friends, the cigarette butts not the people!

I note the graphs are still climbing. This is almost certainly going to result in something (small and insignificant!). HVO in particular interests me as it is SW of Katla and is showing the biggest increase, not however that any of them are large in any way.

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Great that - just move house to find a new internet connection. That's dedication!!!

The storm is coming. 26th June.

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No internet is a BIG problem for us. But the sheeple?? Not a problem, but turn off the TV and OMG!!!! Panic!!!

[edit on 22/6/2010 by PuterMan]

It does look like a dust storm going across Eyjaf according to the time lapse from Mulakot this morning:

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Do you think that could account for some of the readings maybe?

So as i can see is ther a lot of hot water (melting ice) in the riverbed, you can see the steam floating in the stream.

Its been "steaming" there for hours, I watched it before I went to bed this morning at 2 am.

Was also a 3. quake Monday
21.06.2010 18:14:59 64.815 -17.281 5.8 km 3.0 90.02 5.1 km NW of Kistufell

Had a green star there but today, now, its gone off the map.
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Our "sleeping" beauty this morning (4:45 a.m. iceland time). She's blowing off a little steam. The clouds are cool too and I think I see some sundog action going on.

No Iceland Met updates since the 17th but three 1+ quakes in a row in North Iceland

Wednesday
23.06.2010 03:45:05 66.245 -16.995 10.5 km 1.4 71.92 25.1 km WSW of Kópasker
Wednesday
23.06.2010 03:21:24 66.073 -17.421 8.8 km 1.6 90.02 5.0 km NW of Húsavík
Wednesday
23.06.2010 03:12:27 66.264 -16.707 9.4 km 1.6 90.01 12.1 km WSW of Kópasker


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Goodevening to you all. It is a quit day for the volcano. Just a little steam from above. But i sa something else what draw my attention! On the Porocam i sa that the wall is growing/ expanding. I painted a cirkel around it. So let's here it what you think? Or i went crazy from staring at the Porocam

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Thank you for that program that you told me, working perfect