On my second visit to Iceland in August 2010, I visited Seljavellir where I was able to take samples of the volcanic ash. At Seljavellir there is an abandoned farm along with an abandoned public swimming bath. The area was still thick with ash and diggers were present still trying to clear a lot of the area.
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| Seljavellir after Eyjafjallajökull Photo copyright of Pauline Woolley 2010 |
Back in February I contacted the Icelandic Meteorological Office asking for seismic graphs of the famous Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions of 2010. At the same time I was looking at new work by Mark Francis. I got this reply:
Hello Pauline - attached are two pdf files with waveforms of two earthquakes that occurred in Eyjafjallajökull volcano (records from the same station). During the two eruptions we recorded thousands of earthquakes so I just picked two of the bigger ones. One occurred during the flank eruption that began on 20 March (100406). The other occurred as the magma was breaking its way to the surface right before the second eruption in the summit of the volcano (100413).
Best regards,
Bergthóra S. Thorbjarnardóttir
Monitoring Department
Iceland Meteorological Office
