Kjartan

It is quite long time since I wrote my last blog. There is mostly two reason for that. One is that there have been quiet at the eruption and the other is that we (the family) will soon move to Iceland and I have many things on my mind and then it is not so easy to write.

It have been very quiet at the Eyjafjallajokull. Some days there have been lot of gas and steam from melted ice coming from the mountain and sometimes reach more than 3 Km height. The volcano is still hot even it is cooling down. In the past Eyjafjallajokull often have volcano activity for long time with some breaks so still we cannot say for sure that everything is over, thought it is most likely.
Today the www.mbl.is said that the ash emissions that fell on Iceland from the eruption is believed to have been 140 million cubic meters.
Translated to English they say.
"It needs to go back to the Katla eruption in 1918, or Hekla eruption 1947 to find that volcanic ash emissions in a similar quantity to what occurred in the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull this spring."
"Tephra who fell in Iceland from Eyjafjallajökull is approximately 140 million cubic meters or 0.14 cubic kilometers. It is not including any ash that fell into the sea and in other countries, as stated in the newspaper today."
and here is the text in Icelandic.
"Fara verður allt aftur til Kötlugossins 1918 eða Heklugossins 1947 til að finna eldgos sem losuðu gjósku í sambærilegu magni og það sem kom upp í eldgosinu í Eyjafjallajökli í vor."
"Gjóska sem féll hér á landi úr Eyjafjallajökli er áætluð um 140 milljónir rúmmetra eða 0,14 rúmkílómetrar. Þá er ótalin öll gjóskan sem féll í hafið og í öðrum löndum, að því er fram kemur í Morgunblaðinu í dag."
(www.mbl.is)
And here is the picture with the news

Few dais ago the gas and steam from the volcano did reach up to 3 Km height. Here are some pictures taken from web-cams to the Eyjafjallajokull mountain 28th. July.

Picture taken 28th. July at 09:18 AM (GMT)

Another picture 5 minutes later. Picture taken 28th. July at 09:23 AM (GMT)

View to Katla. You can see the steam from the Eyjallajokull how it lie to the ground. Picture taken 28th. July at 09:18 AM (GMT)

Same view few minutes later. Picture taken 28th. July at 09:31 AM (GMT)

Here are the links to the web-cams.
Hvolsvellir view (Mila)
Thorolfsfell view (Mila)
View to KATLA volcano (RUV)
View to HEKLA volcano (RUV)

I will have this enough for now. I will write again soon.
Kjarri - thaiiceland
www.thaiiceland.com

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2010 06 05 Iceland

Friday, June 4, 2010 4:29:33 PM

Hekla, inspiredbyiceland, volcano, eruption ...

In one part the eruption in Eyjafjallajokull have get Iceland known all over the world. But in other part because of the eruption there have been lot of canceling of trips to Iceland. People seems to not know much about eruptions and thats why they are scare to travel to a place with eruption. After the eruption have stopped we need to advertise Iceland so people will come. The web www.inspiredbyiceland.com have made good video to show the beauty of Iceland as you can see here.

Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.

And the same web www.inspiredbyiceland.com have few Web-Cams from Iceland too.

There are few more Web-Cams that I know of from Iceland. First there are at least two pointing to the (former) eruption in Eyjafjallajokull

And then there is Web-Cams pointed at Katla mountain and Hekla mountain. This is to see if and when these mountains will start eruption.

After the eruption at Eyjafjallajokull. The glacier have changed a lot. Instead of white snow of the glacier the snow is now covered with thick layer of ash so the glacier seems to be black colored. There is still gas coming up from the mountain so technically the eruption is still not over. There is no lava coming up from the mountain but while there is still something coming up (in this case the gas) you can say there is still eruption there. The power is very small almost nothing but as I say "technically still eruption".

(here you can see this video in better quality on www.ruv.is) Here is one video from the eruption in Fimmvorduhals and as you can see, then eruption can sometimes be beautiful to watch.

(here you can see this video in better quality) Kjarri - thaiiceland www.thaiiceland.com

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2010 05 31 - Iceland and the volcanos

Monday, May 31, 2010 4:51:33 PM

eruptin, Skaftareldar, Eyjafjallajokull, Laki ...

There is no activity at the moment in Eyjafjallajokull. But it is still some earthquakes at the area. But earthquakes is something that can be expect every day in Iceland. But it have been more of them lately. I don't know if it mean something but it can be quite normal. There have also been lot of earthquakes north of Iceland. Two days ago there was more than 170 earthquakes north of Iceland (Tjornesbrotabeltid) during 48 hours. But now it is only 49 earthquakes during last 48 hours (still high). All of these earthquakes are small and most of them not reach 2 on Richter.
Here is picture that is taken from www.vedur.is website showing the earthquakes on Iceland for last 48 hours (48 hours from time 15:40 at 31 May 2010).

It is not unusual to see many earthquakes on Iceland and in fact it is difficult to find a day with no measured earthquakes. So this can be quite normal.
Another thing is that the tremor is still high as you can see on this pictures (again from www.vedur.is)

While I have been search for something interesting I found a article (in Icelandic) about the Laka eruption (back to the year 1783). This article is from Haraldur Sigurdsson blog. The Laki eruption was a big eruption and as Haraldur Sigurdsson says in his article, the biggest lava on earth in the history of humans (I am not sure how to say this in English but in Icelandic it is said "sidan sogur hofust" but it is NOT the same as the earth history). The Laki eruption was 25 Km long with more than 100 eruption-openings. The eruption did not only affect Iceland but all Europe. After the eruption the population in Iceland did drop by 24% and farmers did lost 75% of theirs animals.
Almost 100 years after the eruption a man from Norway, Amund Theodor Helland (1846-1918) did go to Laki. He arrived to Iceland early the year 1881 and the summer that year he did reach to the place where the eruption did take place. Helland believed that the lava from the eruption was about 27 Km³ but now days it is believed to be about 15 Km³. He did let Knud Gergslien, an artist from Norway, draw a painting that show where all the openings from the eruption where.

(here is a bigger picture from Haraldur Sigurdsson Blog)
The map (picture) is more than 2 meters long and show that there was 56 openings North-East of Laki and 49 openings South-West of Laki. Helland was the first man to use the name of Laki mountain for the eruption and ever since the eruption have been called the Laki eruption.

I will have this enough for now but write again soon.
Kjarri - thaiiceland
www.thaiiceland.com

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