at Holuhraun
4.2.2015
On the 22nd of January, a MultiGAS gas measuring instrument and a weather station were installed near the Holuhraun eruption. Both instruments transmit data to IMO, that is used for monitoring the eruption.
MultiGAS measures the gases H2O
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of melt from the Bárðarbunga magma chamber to the dike intrusion east of
Bárðarbunga. A new GPS station was installed in Kverkfjöll on the 21st of August 2014. This
station will measure continuously and transmit data automatically to scientists of the Icelandic
Meteorological Office and of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland, in a similar
manner as other continous GPS
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costs ment ment comprehen- build- and com- Regional De- heads
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on for accurate reports on the current eruption in Eyjafjallajökull. The webcams have been very much appreciated and hopefully those will continue to transmit the visual picture for us here in the States."
Users are satisfied with the IMO web-site
A survey shows that 90% of users are very pleased with the IMO web (Icelandic version). More precisely, 57% consider it very good, 34% good, 8% average
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April 2009.
[2] WTO, World Tourism Organization (2008): “Climate Change and Tourism -
Responding to Global Challenges”, UNWTO, 9 July 2008, Madrid, Spain.
Available at:
http://www.unwto.org/media/news/en/press_det.php?id=1411&idioma=E, 7
March 2010.
[3] Mooney, J.E. y Miller, M.L. (2009): “Climate change: Creating demand for
sustainable
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of events closely.
Photo: Sigurlaug Gunnlaugsdóttir.
Bárðarbunga
Pálmi Erlendsson, Bergur H. Bergsson and others installing GPS and com-
munication equipment. Photos: Þorgils Ingvarsson and Benedikt G. Ófeigsson.
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The magma intrusion from Bárðarbunga
to the eruption site at Holuhraun and
related tremor pulses
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in the range M3 - M4. In the dyke intrusion only five earthquakes were detected, all under M1.5.
4 February 2015 - new equipment near Holuhraun
New equipment was installed near the eruptive site two weeks ago, a MultiGAS gas measuring instrument and a weather station. Both instruments transmit data to IMO, that is used for monitoring the eruption.
MultiGAS measures the gases H2O, SO2, CO2, H2S and H2
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in the range M3 - M4. In the dyke intrusion only five earthquakes were detected, all under M1.5.
4 February 2015 - new equipment near Holuhraun
New equipment was installed near the eruptive site two weeks ago, a MultiGAS gas measuring instrument and a weather station. Both instruments transmit data to IMO, that is used for monitoring the eruption.
MultiGAS measures the gases H2O, SO2, CO2, H2S and H2
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