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Seismic activity in Iceland during 2004
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GMT Oct 13 11:46 slauga: Gudlaugst2004
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Sandkúlufell
Guðlaugstungur
Beljandatungur
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SWARMS IN GUÐLAUGSTUNGUR 2004
Single event locations
Relative locations Feb.−May
Relative locations Sep.−Nov.
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Figure 7. Single event and relative locations of earthquakes in Guðlaugstungur during February-November
2004. Black triangle denotes the SIL station hve at Hveravellir. – Venjulegar og afstæðar staðsetningar skjálfta
í Guðlaugstungum, febrúar-nóvember 2004. Svarti þríhyrningurinn sýnir staðsetningu SIL-stöðvarinnar hve á
Hveravöllum.
Guðlaugstungur
In March an earthquake swarm occurred near the
glacial river Blanda, in Guðlaugstungur, about 20 km
north of the geothermal area Hveravellir. A smaller
swarm occurred 2 km further east in September. Seis-
micity is not very frequent in this area and earthquake
epicenters located between 1995 and 2003 are mostly
concentrated further south, i.e. west of Hveravellir.
The March swarm started with a single event on 26
February, and it lasted throughout the next month.
Around 50 microearthquakes were located, the largest
reaching a magnitude of only 2.5. Only ten earth-
quakes were recorded in April, but no further activ-
ity happened until September, when roughly 70 events
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