500 events detected
Setja bókamerki
Around 500 earthquakes were detected by the IMO between midnight and 06:30 this morning. According to information from the IMO the night started with a 5.3 event in Bardarbunga at 00:16 hours.
Around half an hour later activity around the tip of the dyke started increasing and reached some kind of "high" around 2 o'clock and continued at that level since with many events of magnitude 2-3.
Just before 2 o'clock there was a magnitude 4.5 event just east of the Askja caldera. Few microearthquakes have been measured there earlier this week.
At 02:50 there was a 5.2 event again in Bardarbunga.
Most of the 500 events detected last night were around the tip of the northward migrating dyke.
The IMO says implications of Askja event is still premature to speculate on. However, they are watching the area closely. The >M5 events in Bardarbunga are still interpreted as being relaxation process of the caldera due to magma pressure changes and the propagating dyke.
