Lava flowed over a parking lot at the Blue Lagoon

21.11.2024

Updated November 21 at 4:15 p.m

Lava never flowed this far to the west

Seismic activity and deformation very low

The advance speed of the lava was estimated at over 100m per hour today

The risk assessment will be updated tomorrow, November 22, all things being equal

Activity in the volcanic eruption between Stóra-Scógfell and Sýlingarfell seems to be quite similar since this morning. Seismic activity and deformation of the eruption centers is very low.

The first measurements indicate that the volume of magma that flowed from Svartsengi into the Sundhnúks crater series is almost half of the volume that flowed from Svartsengi during the eruption on August 22. More detailed results will be available in the coming days.

The lava tube that flowed over Grindavíkurveg and the hot water pipe west of it has continued to flow to the west. At noon, the lava reached the parking lot at the Blue Lagoon and is still moving. The advance speed of the lava was estimated at over 100m per hour between 12:09 and 1:35 p.m.

This lava bed has now reached further to the west than lava beds from previous eruptions. The attached photos are taken from the Met Office's web camera, which is located up in Þorbirn. The first video is taken between 12:30 and 12:50 today and later from 13:40 - 14:30. They show the progress of the lava at that time.

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A great source for live views of the volcano in Reykjanes Peninsula is the amazing mbl.is YouTube channel. Please SUBSCRIBE and like and share their live YouTube camera views here to help their work be known. Iceland depends on tourism and beyond the Reykjanes Peninsula there are plenty of sites with world class tourist attractions. If you want to help Iceland, plan a holiday to this amazing country. Icelandic people are kind and welcoming people and their food and cousin is second to none. The clip of starting moments of the eruption is courtesy of mbl Iceland.

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Their channel:

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Icelandic Meteorological Office is a great source of information and maps:

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The team that designed the dikes at Grindavík and Svartsengi gained a lot of experience in designing and making them when experiments were carried out with dikes during the eruption at Fagradalsfjall in 2021. It was not surprising to the team when the dikes passed the test in the eruption on January 14.

Hörn Hrafnsdóttir, water resources engineer at Verkís and assistant professor at the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at the University of Helsinki, and Sólveig Kristín Sigurðardóttir, geotechnical engineer at Verkís, are on the dam team.

The GPS data is from University of Iceland here:

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GPS animation here:
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