Steinunn S. Jakobsdóttir & others - Opening address
08:55 Ragnar Stefánsson - From earthquake prediction research to useful warnings ahead of earthquakes
09:20 Ragnar Slunga - Microearthquakes, stresses, crustal stability, and earthquake warnings
09:45 Reynir Bödvarsson - Development history and future potential of the SIL system
10:10 Coffee and posters
10:50 Halldór Geirsson & others
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measurements, MODIS satellite image; reports from
people via phone and the IMO web site, information from the Icelandic Coast
Guard flight yesterday.
Eruption plume:
Height (a.s.l.): Plume at 5.5-6.5 km height according to IMO's weather radar; reached
up to 7.2 km 40 SA of eruption site at 17:45 and 8 km height just SE
of eruption site at 16:55. Information from ISAVIA: 18-20,000 ft at
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12:00.General synopsisOVER GREENLAND IS A STNR 1038MB HIGH, BY LOFOTEN IS QSTNR 998MB LOW. JUST W OF SCOTLAND IS 1010MB LOW DRIFTING E. FAR SW AT SEA IS EXTENSIVE 979MB LOW.Forecast made: 01.05.2023 04:50. Valid until: 01.05.2023 16:00.
Written forecasts are written by the meteorologist on duty at the Icelandic Meteorological Office
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Saturday 14 March. IMO has issued warnings due to wind (southerly 20-30 m/s) with wind gusts exceeding 50 m/s.
Intense rain and snow-melt is expected during the weekend. The most intense rainfall will occur in the south- and southeast of the country, especially around Mýrdalsjökull and south of Vatnajökull. Rising river levels are expected throughout the south of the country. Rapid melting
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glacier can exceed 50 m/s. Precipitation will be snow at first, then sleed with ice or wet snow on the roads.
Travelling conditions in the south and southeast are extremely poor tomorrow.
The weather will be worst in the south but by tomorrow evening winds will increase in other parts of the country and a northeast gale or strong gale (15-23 m/s) is expected along with blowing snow and later snow
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Magma splatters ejected
No lava flow detected yet
19.4.2010
At 04 o'clock this morning, seismic tremors indicated that lava flow might have begun in Eyjafjallajökull.
At 08:50 the ash cloud reached a hight of 4 km, which
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and at Skrokkalda located 50 west of the eruption.
Water is clearly seen in the fissure (photo below). The eruptive activity is now concentrated at two small vents surrounded by a thin circle of tephra. The eruption plume drifted slowly southwards but ash fell down from the plume into a brownish layer of ash which spread out over southern Iceland beneath a steady layer of air, located at 2-3 km height a.s.l
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warning for Hvítá and Ölfusá
Warning due to flooding - update
26.2.2013
During the last 24 hours, the Hvítá - Ölfusá catchment has received over 50 mm of rain. This rainfall is continuing to increase river levels in Hvítá and its tributary rivers, especially
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