Impending Eruption worries in Iceland

[Maxmars]

Source: Earthquakes rattle Iceland as odds of volcanic eruption increase

There have been no injuries reported thus far, thank goodness.  But there has been an increase in earthquakes around the area. 
 

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Officials issued an Orange alert for the Reykjanes region, noting that an intrusion of magma had started just east of the town of Sýlingafell. According to RUV, an Iceland news agency, officials believe that is where an eruption is most likely to occur.

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Wishing them well... stay safe.

[guyfriday]

I've been watching this too:
Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, Activity Updates: Feb 2024 Eruption | VolcanoDiscovery

 The Icelandic Met Office has recently released an updated hazard assessment map for the Grindavík area due to the elevated seismic activity. The risk levels have increased in zones 2, 3, 4, and 6.

The most critical danger zones are as follows:

Zones 2 and 3 are classified as very high risk, indicated by the color purple.
Zones 4 and 6 are designated as high risk, represented by the color red.
Zone 1 and 5 are considered to have a considerable risk, denoted by the color orange, while Zone 7 is assessed as having a moderate risk, represented by the color yellow.

The map is valid from 2 March until 3 March 17:00 local time.

The situation has been worse, but the question of, "will this be the big one" means much more in Iceland where an eruption can mean the difference between "Stærra svæði eða ekkert landsvæði" (More land or No land)

[Maxmars]

Huge volcano erupts in Iceland for fourth time in recent months | Fox News

[Maxmars]

Just a follow up...

Eruption in Iceland Going Strong After Almost Two Weeks.
 

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The latest eruption near Grindavík started on March 16 and if it was like the previous ones, we should have expected a few days of eruption that created lava fountaining, some lava flows and then a slow petering out of the activity. Yet, here we are, ~10 days later...

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[Maxmars]

Just to add as the situation evolves...

Fox News: (March 18th 2024)  Iceland volcano continues to spew lava but eruption has stabilized, scientists say

And ... Fox News: (April 9th 2024) Drone video shows lava bubbling from Iceland volcano crater

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A drone video recorded on Sunday, April 7, near the active crater shows lava spewing down the land mass.

"Insane lava fall," the photographer Hordur Kristleifsson wrote. "Today the activity suddenly increased, causing the main crater to overflow."

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The drone footage is truly impressive... too bad I can't embed it.




Just goes to show you even when we think we know... we really don't.

[Maxmars]

Just keeping the chronicle, so to speak, about this volcano in Iceland and it's continuing activity...

From FoxWeather.com: Lava reaches defense walls outside Grindavik after Iceland volcano roars back to life in powerful eruption
Subtitled: According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), lava was blasted more than 160 feet into the air from a massive fissure that opened when the eruption began, which has since grown to more than 2.1 miles long.
 

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GRINDAVIK, Iceland – Thousands of residents of the evacuated seaside town of Grindavík in Iceland are holding their breath after a volcano outside the town roared back to life Wednesday in the most powerful eruption since December.

The latest eruption, the fifth since the end of 2023, began Wednesday afternoon after the region in southwest Iceland experienced hundreds of earthquakes over the past several days.

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I feel for the people who have to fear how badly this can go.  There was a moment or two where it seemed to be abating... but now it definitely isn't.






 

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Lava has also been flowing rapidly toward communications towers owned by the U.S. Navy outside of Grindavik. RÚV said officials are hopeful that the defense walls will hold and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is monitoring the situation.

Iceland’s popular tourist destination Blue Lagoon was also evacuated due to growing fears of a new eruption amid intense seismic activity.

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