ÍSOR (Iceland Geosurvey) runs a dense network of seismometerss for Landsvirkjun (The National Power Company) due to energy production and research on the high temperature areas of Krafla, Námafjall and Theistareykir. The network also makes use of Veðurstofa Íslands‘ (The Meteorological Office of Iceland) countrywide network. The objective is to gather information on the infrastructure of the geothermal areas and how production affects them., especially with regard to stimulated earthquakes. The system is not installed as a warning system for natural risks like Veðurstofa Íslands‘ seismometer system.
The seismometers are equipped to send constant information by telecommunications to ÍSOR where the data is automatically handled and earthquakes located and information published in real time. Ísor uses SeisComp3 software from GDZ/Gempa in Germany for that purpose. On weekdays the locations determined automatically are checked, and improved if necessary and wrong recordings corrected. In maps that show earthquake locations they are marked with a circle in different colours where each colour represents a certain depth interval. The size of the circles indicates the size of the earthquakes. Earthquake recording stations are marked with triangles.
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