On the 29th of May 2008 there was an Mb6.2 earthquake in south of Iceland. There was damage to houses closest to the earthquake.

BBC News report on the earthquake.

Strong earthquake rocks Iceland

Report by Cnn.com

Iceland rocked by earthquake

Here is a pictures from my earthquake computer that shows the earthquake.







High detailed plot of the earthquake.

More pictures of the earthquake can be found here.

Hmm, I didn't know Iceland was susceptible to such strong earthquakes, but then again I don't know much about that country.

Thanks for the info though Dr. Z. and I hope former board member jonfr's okay as I recall him being from there.

I am quite ok.
I did feel the earthquake, as it did move stuff in my apartment. Only stuff that was hanging from the sealing and stuff like that.

Ah, right. You live there too! Well, glad you're okay man.

Given the history of earthquakes in this area, there is a high risk of a second big earthquake at any time. The question is just when it happens.

True, another big aftershock would certainly seem likely. Like you said though, exactly when is anyone's guess.

It would not be a aftershock. It would be a second earthquake in this area. In the year 2000 that did happen, there where two seperate earthquakes, both where Ms6.5 (Mb6.1 I think) in size.

You can read about the year 2000 events here.

Before the year 2000 and 2008 earthquakes the last earthquake sequinse in that area was in 1896 and then there was a one mag 7.0 earthquake in the east part of the zone in the year 1912.

I wondered if that's what you meant, so I gotcha then and thanks for the clarification.

are YOU jonfr?
When I saw the topic I figured I knew who was monitoring/interested in these quakes.

Yep Dr Zoidberg is indeed Jonfr

Dang, I read right past that. Nice catch guys and welcome back jonfr!

Thanks, I've been here awhile but not really active. My earthquake monitoring systems have recorded well over ~300 earthquakes so far, most of them are really small. From 1,5 up to 4.3 in magnitude.

What does it take to get a rig like that setup? Do you have your own sizmo, or do you connect to a remote station/service?

he has his own, which is why it's so cool that it payed off with a biggun.

The cost of such setup is about $400 to $600 (I don't remember witch one is correct at the moment). But that is a high period sensor setup is for local and regional earthquakes only. A system that is able to detect teleseismic earthquakes (strong earthquakes far away), the difference is both the seismometer needed and the number of channels that can be used.

My high period system uses 3 channel system, but low period system can be anything from 1 channel system up to 4 channel system or more.

You also need a pc for it, something low spechs works, I for instance just by the cheapest and the slowest hardware I can find (but nothing under 1Ghz with 256mb ram) when I setup a earthquake monitoring computer.

The software that I use allows me to setup remote stations and connect to them over the internet. Almost any speed works for it, as the data is about ~150mb/24 hours with 100SPS setting on.

I hope this did answer your question.

We just had a ML4.3 earthquake this evening and it was followed by a ML3.3 and ML3.1 according to IMO (Icelandic Met Office) automatic systems.

I live automatic plots can be found here (I forgot to put a link to them in my first post).

Here are some youtube videos of the earthquake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYxF-7LUqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfp6786yfeg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_g6XiGwTM