Iceland's quake activity

After a quiet few months, I see that Iceland is seeing a fair number of earthquakes above 3 in a confined region at the North end of the isl...

Iceland rumbles a bit

This is just a quite arrow to point to the number of quakes above a level 3 that have been happening in Iceland over the last few hours. Ea...

Katla twitches

While the earthquakes in the region around Myrdalsjokull have remained concentrated in and around the Katla caldera for some time, they have...

Katla draws a line

Just another interesting geometric pattern:   Figure 1 Earthquakes around Katla in the 24-hours to June 30, 2012 ( Icelandic Met Office )   ...

Katla in Iceland keeps on grumbling

It has been some while since I have posted on the happenings around the Katla volcano in Iceland. I still drop by the Icelandic Met Office ...

Rumblings in Iceland, (Katla sleeps restlessly)

The problem of dealing with Geological time and having events that occur in very short intervals thereof, is that for those of us on a faste...

Still watching Katla

It has been a little while since I wrote about the possible eruption of the Katla volcano in Iceland. For a while it appeared that the incr...

The Icelandic volcano at Katla is becoming yet more active

I realize that any claims I have as a prophet have faded as the ash that lies on the Myrdalsjokull glacier from the Eyjafjallajokull eruptio...

Katla, volcanic ash, and other opinions on the effect of climate,

There has been an interesting set of quotations over on Dr. Curry’s Website which led back, through a post by Roger Pielke Snr to an art...

Two stars for Katla (a volcanic intensity scale)

Having just finished the post on Eastern Canada, I glanced at the Icelandic Activity Map , on my way to shutting things down for the evening...

Another quake at Katla, and some thoughts on Geothermal in Iceland

There are times when I think that the volcanic activity under Myrdalsjokull is coming to an end, then activity flares again, and a threat ag...

Activity picks up in the Katla calderas

We spent the last four days traveling back home and then taking a day in bringing the place back into respectability after our several-month...

Katla reminds us of her presence

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, the effects of the storm that moved through New England after Hurricane Irene moved ashore extended ...

Katla - aligning earthquakes

It is worth commenting that the activity at Katla is beginning to increase again. But it is doing so along a couple of discernible lines at...

Katla - perhaps a pause in the development

The recent changes in the earthquake pattern around the caldera of the Katla volcano in Iceland suggest that the eruption that I was anticip...

Katla continues to develop toward an upcoming volcanic eruption

The Icelandic press is reporting that there are ponds collecting as the ice in the Myrdalsjokull glacier continues to melt from the increasi...

Katla in Iceland is getting closer to a volcanic eruption

So what is the definition of “hours” that I should have used in anticipating the Katla eruption in my last post on this subject? I must c...

Katla, the volcano in Iceland, seems about ready

Just before the eruption at Grimsvotn on 21st May, the relative quiescence of earthquakes above a level 3 along the volcanic rift that runs...

Why Katla is neither over nor dormant

There is a suggestion at Ice News that the volcano at Katla in Iceland is, and remains dormant. There is a similar article at the Volcanis...

Katla, the volcano in Iceland, begins?

View of the Katla volcanic site from a webcam Last night there was a small flood of melted glacier water from the Myrdallsjokull glacier t...