Das Isländische Wetteramt hat gestern weiter seismische Aktivität im Vulkan Katla festgestellt. Um 15:12 Uhr ereignete sich ein Beben mit einer Stärke von 3,3. In der Nacht davor gab es Beben von 4,5 und 4,6 – den stärksten dort seit 1977.
Die hellen Sommerrnächte sind für dieses Jahr Geschichte, der Herbst beginnt. Auch die Nordlichter zeigen sich schon, die Fotografen haben bereits die Jagd auf die tanzenden Lichter am Himmel eröffnet.
The Independence Party has reclaimed its position as Iceland’s largest political party with a 24.6 percent support ranking, a new survey by MMR, shows. The Pirate Party, which has topped most polls for the past year and a half, is down to 22.4 percent.
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake was picked up by sensors 5.7 km (35 miles) northeast of Bárðarbunga volcano in Vatnajökull glacier in the northern highlands at approximately 1:30 pm today. Bárðarbunga caused the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption.
The earthquake swarm which began in the Katla caldera under Mýrdalsjökull glacier in South Iceland the night before yesterday has died down for now, according to seismologist Martin Hensch at the Icelandic Met Office.
Managing director of the Icelandic Travel Industry Association Helga Árnadóttir said the landowners of Sólheimasandur—where the Douglas DC-35 Super Dakota plane wreck of Justin Bieber and Shah Rukh Khan fame is located—should have called the police instead of fining the tourist who drove there on his rental car.
Nachdem ein Douglas Super DC-3 Flugzeug der Staatsmarine der Vereinigten Staaten 1973 auf dem schwarzen Sandstrand Sólheimasandur in Süd-Island nach einer Notlandung „gestrandet“ war, erlangte es Berühmtheit, da es in einigen Musikvideos und Filmen zu sehen war.
The Icelandic Met Office picked up continued seismic activity in Katla volcano yesterday. At 3:12 pm a tremor of magnitude 3.3 occurred. Around 2 am the previous night, earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and 4.6 hit the volcano—the largest to be recorded there since 1977.
The bright summer nights are gone and autumn is arriving. The northern lights have become visible again and photographers have begun hunting the dancing aurora in the sky.
