Iceland starts erupting

Still erupting 4/4/2024...
View from Hagafell webcam. Doesn't give the same sense of scale as the drone video above though.
 
Aerial photo 4/3/2024 showing the two active vents and the lava flow. Still a lot happening.
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7 April 2024, still going... Looks a little more intense than yesterday. Go back to post #41 and click the video to start - you will see a river of lava pouring out of the cone of the last crater. Lots of activity in the crater. Pretty neat. Was going to say pretty cool, but that's not right! Maybe pretty hot! So amazing.
 
Surprisingly, still going, but at diminished rates. However the ground under the Svartsengi power plant (near the Blue Lagoon) is still rising, which implies the shallow magma chamber there is inflating. There's an estimated 10M cubic meters of magma there, and something is expected to change in the next week or two. The expected possibilities, according to the experts are either a sudden increase in output of the existing crater, or a new fissure being created. Either should result in increased lava output. Or the experts will be wrong. There's a great deal of uncertainty, as it is not common for land rise during an active eruption.

Although the crater is still erupting, the lava field has not increased in area. However, it has increased in height. The lava is being transported south, more than a kilometer away in lava tubes. The lava is now higher than the berms that were constructed around Grindavik. Yesterday a small amount of lava went over the top of the berm, but it didn't go very far. The emergency personnel will be increasing the height of the berm soon. In the picture below, you are looking at the flat top of the berm, and the lava to the right of it. To the left of the berm are the outskirts of Grindavik. It is estimated that the lava is approximately 4m higher than the berm. So far, the berm has been successful in keeping most of the lava away from Grindavik.
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The link at post #41 is still active. You only can see an occasional burst of lava from the cone, as of this posting. More technical data about the ongoing eruption can be found at: https://www-vedur-is.translate.goog...l=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp I think that will auto-translate to English.
 
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