- Status: Not erupting, as far as anyone knows (see text).
- Catalogue of Icelandic Volcanoes page.
This volcanic system just off the tip of Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula hasn’t erupted above the waves in almost a hundred years (the Global Volcanism Program reports that a young submarine lava flow was identified down there in 1992), but it has been having an intense seismic swarm for a little over a day now, including this view from the vafri.is quake graphic fourteen hours ago —
— and just now:
That’s more earthquakes and, I think, more of the stronger sort (though nothing over 3-pointers thus far), compared to Eldey’s occasional swarms as the Reykjanes Fires have unfolded, and I wonder if we might see an eruption here soon.
If so, it will be submarine and therefore explosive and hazardous over a somewhat larger area than what we are used to seeing on the peninsula since 2021.
Time to get a post going for it, just in case!
The University of Iceland’s Southern Volcanoes group did a Facebook post on it today.
Featured image: Adam_w, CC BY 2.0
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