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Current
Events
- 7 September 2011. Activity
at Katla seems to be increasing in terms of the frequency of earthquakes.
All of them are very small events. Compare today's map with earlier
maps. Katla is under close observation: is she building up to an eruption?
News article
- 1 September 2011.
Iceland Directs Avalanche Funds Into Volcano Risk Studies. Iceland
Met Office report
on hazards funds
- 25 August 2011. Persistent
minor earthquake activity continues under Mýrdalsjökull,
both inside and outside the Katla caldera. What does it all mean? Earth
tremors are occurring within the caldera and in a couple of locations
at the western and southern margins of the ice sheet - perhaps the latter
are generated by movements of the ice, or ice blocks falling off the
glacier?? The activity within the caldera (some of which has been harmonic
tremor) seems to indicate magma on the move - perhaps a dyke intrusion
which hasn't reached the surface (yet)? Iceland Review articles: article
1; article
2
- Earthquake activity maps
for Mýrdalsjökull area. These maps are courtesy of Icelandic
Met Office
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- Glacial outburst flood in
Skafta River, 28 July 2011.
Iceland Review article. Picture
from RÚV.
- A
glacier-outburst flood from Katla volcano on 9 July 2011 destroyed
the Múlakvísl bridge on Highway 1, the main road along
Iceland's south coast. The bridge was replaced a week later by a temporary
bridge - an impressive feat considering the new bridge is 150 metres
long.
- Videos, images and news
items of the damage to the bridge, the transport arrangements before
the temporary bridge was in place 1 week later, and the new bridge:
- There is continuing earthquake
activity at the Katla caldera under the Mýrdalsjökull ice
cap - see daily
updates from the Icelandic Met Office. It is unclear whether this
is related to an eruption.
- Seismic
activity for the whole of Iceland. Earthquake maps for other parts
of Iceland can be accessed from the lefthand menu on the same page
- The famous Eden garden centre
and restaurant at Hveragerði burned to the ground on the night of
21 July 2011. Iceland
Review article. Photos
- The
eruption at Grimsvötn, started 21 May 2011, and finished on
28 May - Icelandic Met Office
- Grimsvötn
eruption - RÚV (Icelandic Broadcasting) - in Icelandic, but
lots of photos of the eruption and its effects
- News
article from Iceland Review
- Iceland
Review online - news from Iceland in English from the online version
of the magazine
- News
in English from mbl.is, the online version of the daily newspaper
Morgunblaðið
- RÚV
- the national broadcaster in Iceland. Articles are in Icelandic, with
photos
The 2010
Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull
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