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A New Vent or Crater Forming? May 13, 2010

The Earthquake count at Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano had a total of 103 earthquakes occurring in the area with in a 48 hour period.  From Iceland Met Office.  

Earthquake count:

Magnitude less than 1:  52

Magnitude 1 to 2:  41

Magnitude 2 to 3:  10

Magnitude more than 3:  0

Total: 103

The number total changes with the clock, but 100 plus detectable quakes in a 48 hour period is nothing to sneeze at.   These earthquakes were only the ones around the eruption.  We are now beginning to see  increases in magnitude and frequency across all of Iceland.   There is little doubt that seismic eruptions and deformations in the earth’s crust could cause magma to flow toward fractures around the larger Katla volcano.

RUV reports a series of earthquakes under and around Eyjafjallajokull which could signal changes to the volcanic eruption.  According to geophysicist Steinunn Jakobsdottir, the quakes could be a sign of a new vent about to open. The volcano already has three vents, but only the one on the northernmost edge is still erupting.

 

Ash fall in the area has been decreasing and is currently very fine but large rocks have replaced the ash production, apparently caused by the earthquakes. The rocks are being shot high up into the air and crashing down onto the glacier, making holes in the ice. The size and weight of the rocks means that they are a very localised problem and only fall very near to the volcano.http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/05/11/air-travel-normalising-again-as-volcano-changes-behaviour

Today’s earthquakes locations are all over Iceland,  as opposed to just being centered around Eyjafjallajokull only reporting 3 mild quakes so far.  

Earthquake Swarms Under All of Iceland

Connect the dots and there is a pattern.  Perhaps the level of Magma is rising and spreading.  We’ve all heard about the chance of another volcano eruption and maybe these changes are a significant predictor of things to come.  In the below image you can see the plate boundaries, and that is where most of the quakes are occurring.  

Looking above ground and watching the numerous web cams we found a live video stream for May 11, 2010 that has an unknown object flying around http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9734/volcan0.mp4.  The stream was recorded from this site.  http://mulakot.net/images/myndavelar/14flugv.jpg   It is a condensed 6 hours in 40 seconds, each frame is 15 seconds apart or close and runs a minute or two long.  

A Bird, A Plane, A UFO?

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