Volcanic Eruption started in Iceland. At Hagafell Mountain, north of Grindavík. City in danger!

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Dec. 18 2023

 

Dec. 18 2023

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Dec 19, 2023
The new eruption rather seems to be reducing in power. It can be seen on both seismometers and GPS meters. Reducing activity is not an indication of how long the eruption will last, but rather that the eruption is reaching the equilibrium. This pattern has been seen in the beginning of all the eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula in recent years.

It continues to erupt along the entire fissure with the greatest force being in the center of the fissure.

The fissure is a total of over 4 km long and the northern end of the crack is just east of Stóra-Skógfell Mt while the southern end is just east of Sundhnúkur crater, slightly north of Hagafell. The distance from the southern end to the edge Grindavík city is almost 3 km.

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Dec 19, 2023

Hello everybody! The eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula has started and it surfaced in the area that we've been paying close attention to since November 10th. Unfortunately, it bears yet another difficult name, Sundhnúkagígar.

Despite a much worse location than in the previous eruption, the way the eruption is progressing is really fortunate.

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Dec 20, 2023

Volcanic activity at Svartsengi Volcanic System subsided dramatically. Now only one small vent erupting ehivhnis likely to go off by the weekend or next week, according to the leading Icelandic volcanologist. Most of the magma Chamber is likely to be empty. Land continues to subside (sank by 7 cm after 35 cm rise prior to the eruption). There was also no magma intrusion under Grindavik back in November

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Dec. 21 2023