Seismicity of the Krafla Caldera and Geothermal Area, Iceland
2013

This is a Full Scientific Report resulting from NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility Loan 891, principal investigator Prof Robert White.
Abstract
This loan comprised fifteen 8 Gb Guralp 6TD seismometers, which were deployed in and around the Krafla caldera in NE Iceland (Fig. 1) during July 2009‒September 2010. The work was supported by a NERC research grant and NERC PhD student Jon Tarasewicz. The SEIS-UK 6TD seismometers were supplemented by 9 Cambridge 6TDs, plus ancillary solar panels and batteries from Cambridge. Preliminary results include recording and locating >3,000 microearthquakes that we attribute primarily to geothermal exploitation in the caldera and to the cooling of a shallow magma chamber and hydrothermal activity associated with it.
Full Report
Cite as:
White, R.S., Tarasewicz, J., "Seismicity of the Krafla Caldera and Geothermal Area, Iceland", NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility, Scientific Report 891, 2013
Selected external publications resulting from this GEF loan
- Schuler, J., Greenfield, T., White, R.S., Roecker, S.W., Brandsdottir, B., Stock, J.M., Tarasewicz, J., Martens, H.R. and Pugh, D., 2015, Seismic imaging of the shallow crust beneath the Krafla central volcano, NE Iceland, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 120(10), pp7156-7173, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012350
- Schuler, J., White, R.S., Brandsdottir, B. and Tarasewicz, J., 2015, Shallow geothermal and deep seismicity beneath Peistareykir, NE-Iceland, Jokull, 65, pp51-59
- Mildon, Z., Tarasewicz, J., Pugh, D., White, R.S. and Brandsdottir, B., 2016, Closing crack earthquakes within the Krafla caldera, North Iceland, Geophysical Journal International, 207(2), p1137-1141, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw325
- Schuler, J., Pugh, D.J., Hauksson, E., White, R.S., Stock, J.M. and Brandsdottir, B., 2016, Focal mechanisms and size distribution of earthquakes beneath the Krafla central volcano, NE Iceland, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 121, doi: 10.1002/2016JB013213
