Category Archives: Öræfajökull

Earthquake activity in Öræfajökull and Kverkfjöll volcano

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Jón Frímann

Since this volcanoes are in the same part of Iceland I am going to write about them in the same article. Öræfajökull volcano I don’t think this was a glacier earthquake activity happening in Öræfajökull volcano. I don’t know how … Continue reading →

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Sharp increase in earthquake activity in Öræafjökull volcano

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Jón Frímann

There has been increasing earthquake activity in Öræfajökull volcano in recent months. This increase is slow but it seems to be happening at faster phase to my surprise. For the first time the earthquake activity forms a direction along a … Continue reading →

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Earthquake activity in Öræfajökull volcano (13-June-2017)

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Jón Frímann

Today (13-June-2017) a magnitude 2.6 earthquake took place in Öræfajökull volcano. This is the largest earthquake in this volcano for a long time now and it is worth noting that Öræfajökull volcano normally doesn’t have any earthquake activity. This suggests … Continue reading →

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Deep earthquake activity in Öræfajökull volcano

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Jón Frímann

I haven’t written many articles about Öræfajökull volcano, since most of the time nothing happens in it. Öræfajökull volcano is located outside the main activity area in Iceland, like Esjufjöll and Snæfell (east Iceland). This three volcanoes form a volcano … Continue reading →

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Increased activity in Öræfajökull volcano noticed

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Jón Frímann

It has been noticed that earthquake activity in Öræfajökull volcano is slowly increasing. At the moment this increase is just in the form of minor earthquakes taking place in the volcano at 5 – 10 km depth (at the moment). … Continue reading →

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Earthquake activity in Bárðarbunga, Öræfajökull, Langjökull north volcanos

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Jón Frímann

This is going to be a little compressed article. Since I’m currently in Iceland. I’ll be back in Denmark on 18-May. No GVP links now. I don’t think that my laptop can handle it (its slowly turning into non-functional computer). … Continue reading →

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Minor earthquake activity in Öræfajökull volcano

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Jón Frímann

Over the past few weeks there has been a slight increase in earthquakes in Öræfajökull volcano. Due to glacier quake activity I’m only using earthquakes that have confirmed depth of 1,5 km or deeper. This earthquake activity is minor and … Continue reading →

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Deep earthquake activity in Bárðarbunga and Öræfajökull volcano

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Jón Frímann

Today (28-March-2015) there has been deep earthquake activity in Bárðarbunga volcano. This suggest that there is a fresh injection of magma into Bárðarbunga volcano system. If this is going to result in new eruption remains to be seen. It is … Continue reading →

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Deep earthquake in Hamarinn volcano

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Jón Frímann

Yesterday (21-March-2014) an extremly deep earthquake took place in Hamarinn volcano (part of Bárðarbunga volcano often called Loki-Fögrufjöll). The magnitude of this earthquake was just 1,4 but its depth was around 29,7 km. The location of this earthquake was just … Continue reading →

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Minor earthquake swarm in Öræfajökull volcano

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Jón Frímann

An minor earthquake swarm took place in Öræfajökull volcano today (09-September-2013). This was just minor earthquake activity and it was at shallow depth, just around 2.6 to 4.8 km. Largest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude of 2.0. Earthquake … Continue reading →

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