Iceland‘s most powerful volcano continues to remind us it is alive, the earth continues to rumble in Bárðarbunga volcano. Yesterday at 17:37 the Icelandic Meteorological Office detected a 3.4 magnitude quake South-East of the caldera. Unlike most recent activity this quake was not followed by a swarm of smaller quakes, but was instead a solitary event. However, it is a continuation of strong activity in the past few days. On Friday a quake which was measured at 4.4 on the Richter scale shook the volcano.
Read more: Scientists keep a close eye on Bárðarbunga volcano as seismic activity keeps growing
The Friday quake was the most powerful measured since the end of the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption. Benedikt Ófeigsson, a geologist with the Icelandic Met Office told The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RÚV that while seismic activity in Bárðarbunga is clearly growing there were no indications that an eruption was imminent.
Geologists are not sure what is causing the growing seismic activity. Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson told RÚV that the activity in Bárðarbunga was unusual, and that it did not resemble the known behaviour of any similar calderas in the past few decades. Scientists will therefore continue to keep a close eye on Bárðarbunga, as well as putting up more instruments to monitor its behaviour.
Iceland‘s most powerful volcano continues to remind us it is alive, the earth continues to rumble in Bárðarbunga volcano. Yesterday at 17:37 the Icelandic Meteorological Office detected a 3.4 magnitude quake South-East of the caldera. Unlike most recent activity this quake was not followed by a swarm of smaller quakes, but was instead a solitary event. However, it is a continuation of strong activity in the past few days. On Friday a quake which was measured at 4.4 on the Richter scale shook the volcano.
Read more: Scientists keep a close eye on Bárðarbunga volcano as seismic activity keeps growing
The Friday quake was the most powerful measured since the end of the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption. Benedikt Ófeigsson, a geologist with the Icelandic Met Office told The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RÚV that while seismic activity in Bárðarbunga is clearly growing there were no indications that an eruption was imminent.
Geologists are not sure what is causing the growing seismic activity. Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson told RÚV that the activity in Bárðarbunga was unusual, and that it did not resemble the known behaviour of any similar calderas in the past few decades. Scientists will therefore continue to keep a close eye on Bárðarbunga, as well as putting up more instruments to monitor its behaviour.
