as white dots, 20-26 October as red dots and 23-25 October as green dots. The M5.6 event is marked as a black star. The blue circle shows the area of the cluster that was detected 23-25 October further east of the main cluster. Tectonic faults are shown as black lines.
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Tuesday evening 19th August at 20:00. All of them were smaller than magnitude 3 and most were located in the cluster east of Bárðarbunga.
While the northern cluster close to Kistufell has calmed down significantly following the M4.5 earthquake on early Monday morning, event rates in the eastern cluster are still high. Similar to recent days, two pulses of comparably strong seismic activity have
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The activity in both clusters was migrating northeastwards. While the strongest events were located in the northern cluster, the highest number of events was detected in the eastern cluster. The strongest event since the onset of the swarm was detected on Monday morning 02:37 in the northern cluster. Detailed analysis revealed that its magnitude was 4.5 and it was felt in Akureyri and Lón
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of river Ölfusá (Hvítá), 29-30 May 2008. The towns of Selfoss and Hveragerdi cannot be seen under the cluster of dots.
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September 2012 as white dots, 20-21 October as red dots and 22-23 October as green dots (only M>2). The M5.6 event is marked as a black star. The blue circle shows the area of the cluster that was detected in the morning of 22 October. Tectonic faults are shown as black lines.
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cluster north of Bárðarbunga that was active during the first days
automatic automatically detected events in the whole country, number of events outside the
Vatnajökull are comparably small in number, contains also false detections.
A safe number is “around 22.000-24.000 events”.
checked manually checked events
document created on 01. October 2014 at 15:00
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cluster north of Bárðarbunga that was active during the first days
automatic automatically detected events in the whole country, number of events outside the
Vatnajökull are comparably small in number, contains also false detections.
A safe number is “around 23.000-25.000 events”.
checked manually checked events
document created on 01. October 2014 at 18:15
/media/jar/event_numbers_07102014_1800.pdf
Kistufell cluster north of Bárðarbunga that was active during the first days
automatic automatically detected events in the whole country, number of events outside the
Vatnajökull are comparably small in number, contains also false detections.
A safe number is “around 25.000 events”.
checked manually checked events
document created on 31. October 2014 at 19:15
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of the main cluster where the M5.6 event occurred on Sunday morning. Yesterday's cluster is located slightly closer to the Húsavík Flatey Fault and strongest events were around M3.9 at 05:25 and 05:32.
Another M3.5 earthquake at 21:16 on 22. October and an earthquake M4.0 at 05:27 on 23. October were again located in the area of the M5.6 main shock further northwest. These earthquakes are purely
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