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activity. The causaí relationship between the
earthquakes and the end of the eruption is not
clear. The earthquakes were shallow and ap-
peared to be of tectonic origin. A possible cause
of the earthquake activity is a change in the
stress field due to a decreased magma pressure
as the eruption approached its end. An E-W
trend vaguely suggested by the distribution of
epicenters may be related with the zone of large
earthquakes that extends from Hekla westward
across southern Iceland.
ACKN OWLEDGEMENTS
The field work was done while both authors
were employed by the National Energy Au-
thority and was carried out by the authors,
Sigfús Björnsson, Sveinn Magnússon, Olgeir
Kristjónsson and others. The field equipment
was originally purchased with grants from the
National Science Foundation (Grant GP-4815)
and the National Academy of Sciences (Grant
No. 8 of the Arthur L. Day Fund).
The data analysis was done at Lamont-
Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia
University and was supported by grants from
the National Science Foundation (Grant GA-
29405) and the Icelandic Science Fund.
A computer program written by P. L. Ward
was used for the earthquake locations. Ragnar
Stefánsson kindly allowed us access to the seis-
mogram library of the Meteorological Office in
Reykjavili and provided us with his Preliminary
Seismograph Readings.
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