There was a short lived mayhem yesterday among volcano enthusiasts following the GSP map for the Bárðarbunga volcano on the Icelandic Met Office web page. After showing for weeks continuing subsidence in the middle of the huge caldera's ice cap, the graph suddenly rose sharply, indicating a sudden change in the behaviour of the massive volcano. What was happening? Was this a critical sign of some big events ahead?
However the explanation was quite mundane as IMO reported that their scientists had been working on site in the caldera and had lifted the GPS station out of some fresh snow on the glacier and to the surface.
Bárðarbunga is keeping scientists and volcano enthusiasts on the edge as there are no records of volcano behaving this way, with big numbers of earthquakes hitting the volcano every day and the subsidence continuing with similar rate as last few weeks.
There was a short lived mayhem yesterday among volcano enthusiasts following the GSP map for the Bárðarbunga volcano on the Icelandic Met Office web page. After showing for weeks continuing subsidence in the middle of the huge caldera's ice cap, the graph suddenly rose sharply, indicating a sudden change in the behaviour of the massive volcano. What was happening? Was this a critical sign of some big events ahead?
However the explanation was quite mundane as IMO reported that their scientists had been working on site in the caldera and had lifted the GPS station out of some fresh snow on the glacier and to the surface.
Bárðarbunga is keeping scientists and volcano enthusiasts on the edge as there are no records of volcano behaving this way, with big numbers of earthquakes hitting the volcano every day and the subsidence continuing with similar rate as last few weeks.
