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Veðurstofan stuðlar að bættu öryggi almennings, eigna og innviða gagnvart öflum náttúrunnar / The IMO is a multi-hazard monitoring and R&D organization

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3 years
A new video of the eruption at Geldingardalur valley in Reykjanes peninsula. Taken from the Coast Guard helicopter. #Reykjanes #Eruption #Fagradalsfjall
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An eruption has started on the Reykjanes peninsula. The eruption is located about 3 km north of Grindavik. The eruption began at 22.17 following the earthquake swarm that started around 21:00.
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Volcanic eruption has begun in Fagradalsfjall. Flight color code is red but very little turbulence is seen on seismometers.
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3 years
Fyrsta mynd af gosinu. Tekin úr þyrlu Landhelgisgæslunnar. Syðri endi tungunnar er um 2,6 km frá Suðurstrandarvegi. Miðað við fyrstu upplýsingar er sprungan um 200 m löng.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
The first image of the eruption. Taken from the Coast Guard helicopter. The southern end of the lava flow is about 2.6 km from Suðurstrandarvegur. According to initial information, the fissure is about 200 m long.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
2 years
Eruption has started near Fagradalsfjall. Exact location has yet to be confirmed.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
The eruption is small and the volcanic activity has somewhat decreased since yesterday evening. The eruptive fissure is appr. 500 - 700 m long. The lava area is less than 1 km2. Lava fountains are small and lava flows are currently a very local hazard. #Reykjanes #eruption
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3 years
Nýtt myndskeið af eldgosinu í Geldingardal, tekið úr þyrlu Landhelgisgæslunnar. #Eldgos #Reykjanes
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5 months
Eldgos er hafið norðan við Grindavík. Það sést á vefmyndavéĺum og virðast vera staðsett nærri Hagafelli. Eldgosið hófst kl. 22.17 í kjölfar skjálftahrinu sem hófst um kl. 21
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The rate of ground deformation is much higher than has been measured previously on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Around 800 earthquakes have been detected since midnight. The likelihood of a volcanic eruption occurring in the near future is deemed considerable.
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Myndir frá nýjum gossprungum. Miðja þeirra um 700m NA við eldgígana í Geldingadölum. Sprungurnar eru samtals um 100–200m langar. Hraunið er þunnfljótandi, rennur í langri og mjórri hrauná austur í Merardali, hraunbreiða þegar farin að myndast. Ljósm. Björn Oddss. @almannavarnir
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3 years
New photos from the Civil Protection and Emergency Management gives a good overview of the eruption site in Geldingadalur #Reykjanes #eruption
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
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Significant likelihood of a volcanic eruption in the coming days. Models show a 15-km long magma intrusion, located just northwest of Grindavík. A hazard area has been defined based on the location of the dike, as shown in the map.
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5 months
The size of the volcanic eruption at Sundhnúksgígar is diminishing. The lava flow is estimated to be about one-quarter of what it was at the beginning of the eruption on 18 December, and a third of the original fissure is active.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
A volcanic eruption started this evening at 20:45 near Fagradalsfjall in Geldingadalur. The eruption is considered small at this stage and the eruptive fissure is app. 500 m long. The magma area is app. 1km2. Lava fountains are small. #eruption #Reykjanes
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An eruption has started near Hagafell-Grindavík at 7:57 UTC. Then a new eruptive fissure opened at 12:10, just north of the town. Lava flows extruded from this fissure have now entered the town.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
6 months
Estimate of the vertical displacements caused by the dike during its initial propagation from 10-11 November. The imagery shows over 1-m of ground displacement in the western part of Grindavík, caused by the propagation of the magma intrusion.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Pictures from new fissures. Their center is about 700m NA of volcanic craters in Geldingadalur. The fissures are about 100-200m long. The lava is thin-flowing, flows in a long and narrow lava river east of Merardalur, lava fields already beginning to form. Photogr. Björn Oddsson
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3 years
Myndir frá nýjum gossprungum. Miðja þeirra um 700m NA við eldgígana í Geldingadölum. Sprungurnar eru samtals um 100–200m langar. Hraunið er þunnfljótandi, rennur í langri og mjórri hrauná austur í Merardali, hraunbreiða þegar farin að myndast. Ljósm. Björn Oddss. @almannavarnir
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
6 months
Based on radar imagery from 18 and 19 November 2023, the latest interferogram of the magma intrusion and the surrounding area shows significant crustal uplift in the vicinity of Svartsengi.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
2 years
Sentinel-1 interferogram spanning 20 July to 1 August 2022 showing new dike intrusion on Reykjanes Peninsula and deformation associated with the M5.47 earthquake on 31 July 2022.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
The Icelandic Met Office has set up a weather station at the eruption site at #Fagradalsfjall . Observations from the station can be found here: While our experts were installing the station yesterday they witnessed changes in the lava flow from the crater
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3 years
IMO has received reports from pilots and control tower in Keflavík at noon that a new crack has opened about 500m NA of #eruption sites in Geldingadalur. According to information from pilots, the crack is about 500m long. Eruption has been confirmed on the RÚV webcam. #Reykjanes
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
5 months
Scientists who flew over the eruption site this morning confirm that no eruptive activity is visible and that lava flow from the craters seems to have ceased. Glowing is still visible in the lava field, possibly within closed channels.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
The source of the volcanic eruption began at Geldingadalur, close to Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes Peninsula.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
A screenshot from the seismograph showing the hours before the eruption. A very low tremor is current to the right of the image and only on those monitors next to the eruption site, (bottom lines). The eruption starts at ca 20:45, time stamp is at the bottom. #Reykjanes #Eruption
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3 years
1/2 There was a slight change in the seismic tremor measurements at #Fagradalsfjall shortly before 4:30 am. Rhythm had been the same until then, approx. 10 min between magma jets. But this morning about half an hour passed between powerful magma jets. #eruption #Reykjanes
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
The eruption is still ongoing. Lava fountain activity is low and mapping of the lava flow is in progress. No volcanic ash has been detected but high level of volcanic gases has been measured close to the eruption site.
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3 years
Gosið er lítið og hefur virkni heldur minnkað frá því í gær. Lítið er um kvikustróka og þekur hraunflæðið svæði sem er í mesta lagi um 500 metra breitt. Gosið er afmarkað við lítið svæði ofan í dalverpi og er ólíklegt að hraunflæði komi til með að valda tjóni. #Reykjanes #eldgos
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Nýjar myndir frá Almannavörnum sýna vel umfang eldstöðvanna í Geldingadal. #Reykjanes #eldgos
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3 years
New additional fissure opened at ca. 12:00GMT today near the initial #eruption site in #Geldingadalir . Length of fissure is est. 200m. and middle of the fissure is approx. 1km NE of eruption site. The lava flows toward Merardalir, east of new fissure.
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Earlier this week, IMO specialists installed two DOAS remote sensing instruments on Húsafell. One of the DOAS instruments detected SO2 yesterday and today at the newly formed graben, located between Sundhnúkagígar and Grindavík.
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Myndirnar sýna að hraunbreiðurnar úr gosopunum þremur ná nú saman. Hraun frá nýju sprungunni hefur runnið niður í Geldingadali og í áttina að gosopinu ofan við Meradali. Samfeld hraunbreiða er á milli gosstaðanna þriggja sem tilheyra einni og sömu gossprungunni við Fagradalsfjall
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Ný gossprunga opnaðst um 12 í dag í grennd við gosstöðvarnar í Geldingadölum. Fyrsta mat er að sprungan sé um 200 m löng, miðja hennar staðsett um km NA af gosstöð í Geldingadölum. Hraunið frá nýju sprungunni rennur niður í Merardali. #eldgos #Reykjanes
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Yet another fissure started erupting around midnight last night. Located inbetween previous fissures. Lava can be seen flowing into #Geldingadalir from the new fissure NE of the craters in Geldingadalir. #eruption #Reykjanes
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3 years
Tremors started at 14:20 and are measured on most seismometers, located south of Keilir by Litla Hrút. Such signs are often detected in the run-up to eruptions, it has not been confirmed that an eruption has begun. Further analysis is underway.
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1/3 The volcanic #eruption in Geldingadalir has now been ongoing for nine days. The lava is basaltic and highly fluid with little explosive activity. It is a very small eruption and the lava flow has been steady at 5-7 m3/s since its onset. #Reykjanes
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Líkur hafa aukist á eldgosi. Getur hafist hvenær sem er á næstu dögum. Líkön sýna 15 km langan kvikugang sem liggur rétt norðvestan Grindavíkur. Hættusvæði hefur verið skilgreint út frá legu kvikugangsins.
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3 years
Currently, gas pollution is not expected to cause much discomfort for people except close up to the source of the eruption. The gas emittions will be monitored closely. #Reykjanes #eruption
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Hér má sjá breytingu sem varð á yfirborði við myndun kvikugangsins milli 10. og 11. nóvember. Bláir litir tákna landsig og á myndinni má greinilega sjá legu kvikugangsins og sigdalinn sem myndast hefur. Land í vesturhluta byggðarinnar sigið um allt að 1 m
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
The lava seems to be flowing slowly to the southwest and west. #Reykjanes #eruption
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Decreas. SW-ly wind today, unhealthy air quality exp. near the eruption site after 19:00 today. SO2 concentr. close to the volcano can go over 9000 µg/m3, and gather in valleys/dells in the landscape. It is advised to leave the area before 17:00 and keep away from valleys/dells
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1/2 Today, the total number of earthquakes measured on the #Reykjanes peninsula during the last two weeks exceeded 34,000. This exceeds the number of earthquakes measured during the whole of 2020, which was characterized by unusually high seismic activity.
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Veðurstofa Íslands óskar öllum gleðlilegrar hátíðar og með von um gæfuríkt komandi ár! Við munu halda áfram að standa vaktina hvernig sem viðrar.
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Eldgos er hafið við Fagradalsfjall. Nákvæm staðsetning liggur ekki fyrir að svo stöddu. Þyrla mun fljúga yfir fljótlega.
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3 years
The aviation color code for Keflavik international airport has been lowered again to orange as the tephra is small an ash fall is expected to be minimal to non existing. #Reykjanes #Eruption
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1/2 An earthquake swarm began yesterday evening located near the SW-ern tip of the Reykjanes Peninsula. The swarm began with an M3.9 earthquake and six other earthquakes with magnitude above 3.0 have been detected. Nearly 600 earthquakes have been detected since the swarm began.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
4 years
Possible magma accumulation beneath Mt. Thorbjorn in Reykjanes peninsula. The Civil Protection has declared a state of uncertainty. For further information see:
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3 years
Yesterday over 500 earthquakes were detected, the largest a M2.8 at 17:21, just NE of Fagradalsfjall.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Upptökin eru líklega í Geldingadal austan Fagradalsfjalls.
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Áfram dregur úr krafti eldgossins við Sundhnúksgíga. Hraunflæði er gróflega áætlað um ¼ af því sem það var í byrjun og er þriðjungur upphaflegu sprungunnar virkur. Kvikustrókar eru einnig lægri en í byrjun goss, um það bil 30 metrar þar sem þeir ná hæst.
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2/2 At 5:40 am there was an unusually high magma jet that went beyond the current perspective on the RÚV webcam, seems to have risen above 460 m. #eruption #Reykjanes
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1/3 Just after midnight at 00:22 tremor was detected which lasted for 20 minutes. Tremor was similar to the one measured on the 3rd of March, however that tremor lasted several hours. Following these events the seismicity intensified with earthquakes larger than 4.
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Veðurstofan hefur komið fyrir veðurstöð við gosstöðvarnar við #Fagradalsfjall . Athuganir frá stöðinni má finna hér: Sérfræðingar Veðurstofunnar unnu að uppsetningunni í gær og urðu vitni að því þegar að breytingar urðu á hraunstreymi frá gígnum. #eldgos
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2/2 In comparison, during the years 2014-2019, the number of earthquakes in the area was around 1000-3000 per year. We would like to point out that the locations of all the earthquakes in this rather artistic picture have not been reviewed.
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3/3 Shield volcanoes are generally formed over long time periods with lava fields extending from a few to several kilometers around its source. There is no way to tell how long the eruption will last. #eruption #Reykjanes
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Gas can be expected from the ongoing eruption in #Reykjanes , mainly close to the eruption site. Gas dispersion from the #eruption is to the northeast towards the capital area, but it´s unlikely that concentrations will reach dangerous levels there.
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2 years
Yesterday afternoon an earthquake swarm started NE of Geldingadalir. Over 1100 earthquakes have been automatically detected since then. The largest earthquake was a M4.2 at 04:24 and was felt in SW Iceland.Two earthquakes of M3.8 occurred at 02:51 and 04:55.
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2/3 Currently the extent of the lava field is within Geldingadalur, if the #eruption keeps at a similar rate, it is modeled that the lava will flow east towards Merardalur valley. If the volcano continues to erupt it could end up being categorized as a shield volcano. #Reykjanes
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Á gervitunglamyndum sem sýna breytingar sem orðið hafa frá 18. – 19. nóvember má sjá skýr merki um landris í Svartsengi á sömu slóðum og landris hafði mælst áður en kvikugangurinn myndaðist 10. nóvember.
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3 years
Massive improvements have been made to our cGPS and seismic monitoring networks on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Lots of stations added and the highest of fives to our friends @isor_iceland and @fencingtobba team + collaborators for joining their campaign network to ours!
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Sérfræðingar hjá Veðurstofu Íslands settu upp DOAS mælitæki upp á Húsafell sem mæla (SO2) í andrúmslofti. Einn af þessum mælum sýndu merki um að (SO2) væru til staðar í andrúmsloftinu yfir Sigdalnum frá Sundhnúkagígum suður til Grindavíkur, í dag og í gær.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Yesterday around 240 earthquakes were detected, the largest M3.2 just NNE of Grindavík.
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6 months
Ongoing volcanic unrest in the Reykjanes-Svartsengi volcanic system. For more information go to:
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2 years
Since midnight around 400 earthquakes have been detected in the area around Fagradalsfjall.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
About 5:20 this morning, the activity at #Fagradalsfjall , south of the corridor, increased. Unrest is now being measured in the area, but it has decreased. The activity is very localized to the south of the intrusion and is probably an indication of the expansion of the intrution
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3 years
Eldgos er hafið í Fagradalsfjalli. Fluglitakóði er rauður en mjög lítill órói sést á jarðskjálftamælum. Flug gæslunnar fer í loftið innan skamms.
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2 years
At 04:25, a M4.2 earthquake was detected north of Geldingadalur. It was felt in many parts of Reykjanes, in the capital area, Akranes and Borgarnes
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2 years
Yesterday afternoon an earthquake swarm started NE of Geldingadalir. Over 1400 earthquakes have been automatically detected since then. The largest earthquake was a M4.9 at 09:23 and was felt in SW Iceland. Earthquake of M4.2 occurred at 04:24 and of M4.1 at 09:13.
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Við @Vedurstofan biðjum vinsamlegast um að @vedurisl breyti nafni, merki og myndnotkun reikningsins. Höfum ekkert á móti áhugsömu fólki sem vill tísta um veður, en ekki að það sé gert í okkar nafni og undir fölsku flaggi.
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1/2 Tremor pulse detected at 14:20 and is measured at most seismic stations in Iceland. Pulse is located S of Keilir by Litli Hrútur. Similar signals have been observed leading up to eruptions, but no eruption has been confirmed. IMO is working on further analysis of the pulse.
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3 years
An #earthquake swarm began this morning close to Fagradalsfjall. An M5.7 earthquake occurred at 10:05 and many aftershocks have followed. More info will be updated as soon as the activity has been reviewed further.
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1/2The LANDSAT-8 satellite, owned by NASA and USGS, was launched in 2013. Since then, the satellite has acquired an enormous quantity of images, e.g. this thermal image which was acquired at 22:38 on the 20th of March, just over a day after the eruption in Geldingadalir started.
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1/2 Just after seven this morning, about 400 earthquakes had been detected on the Reykjanes Peninsula since midnight. This is somewhat less seismic activity in comparison to previous mornings where the numbers have been around 1,000 earthquakes.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
At 23:05 a M4.1 earthquake was detected about 3 km NA of Þorbjörn. This is the largest earthquake that has been detected on the #Reykjanes peninsula since March 15. #eruption
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@Vedurstofan
Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Just now at 12:34 an M5.0 earthquake occurred in the south part of Fagradalsfjall. It was felt well in SW-part of Iceland.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Over 1700 earthquakes have been measured in the Reykjanes Peninsula since midnight, few of which were over M3, the largest one measured M4,6 at 08:53 GMT this morning. As before, the magmatic activity is centered around Mt. Fagradalsfjall southwest of Mt. Keilir.
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@Vedurstofan
Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
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Eldgos hófst norðan Grindavíkur, suðsuðaustan Hagafells, klukkan 7:57 í morgun. Gosið hófst fyrir norðan varnargarð sem byrjað var að reisa norðan Grindavíkur. Ný sprunga opnaðist norðan bæjarjaðarsins um kl 12:10 og hefur hraun náð til bæjarins.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Around 800 quakes detected since midnight. Largest one a M3.4 at 2:10 am. Around 2500 earthquakes detected in Reykjanes peninsula yesterday. About 30 of them were of M3.0 and above, largest one M5.1 at 3:14am. Today, 11/3 at 08:53 an M4.6 was detected around 6 km W of Grindavík
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
IMO’s specialists performed gas measurements at the eruption site. There are indications that gas emission from the eruption is slightly lower than yesterday, however gas concentration close to the lava flow were measured above danger threshold.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Around 1800 earthquakes been detected on Reykjanes peninsula since midnight, 5 measured larger than M3.0, largest M3.3 at 00:34. Yesterday around 2800 earthquakes detected in the area. Largest a M5.0 at 02:02 loc. 3 km WSW of Fagradalsfjall, felt widely in the SW-part of Iceland.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
1/2 Yesterday, about 2500 earthquakesmeasured, since midnight almost 800 earthquakes measured. In total, there have been over 18000 earthquakes since eruption began about a week ago. Most activity limited to Fagradalsfjall, slight movement to the SW compared to activity yesterday
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Skjáskot af óróagrafinu á vaktinni sýnir aðdraganda gossins. Sáralítill órói sést hægra megin á myndinni og aðeins á mælum sem eru næst upptökunum, sjá neðstu línurnar á grafinu. Um kl. 20.45 hefst gosið með stöðugri virkni, tímaskalinn er neðst á myndinni. #Reykjanes #Eldgos
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
@almannavarnir
Almannavarnir
3 years
Volcanic gas pollution is expected to extend as far as Þorlákshöfn and to continue into the night. People are asked close windows and stay indoors. The status and amount of SO2 emissions from the eruption are being assessed.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
4 years
1/3 Já, vertu sæll vetur! Hér er örlítil viðvaranasinfónía í rauðum dúr með broti af því besta – eða versta - til að kveðja þig minn kæri. Við vitum að þú kemur aftur þannig að þú skalt ekkert vera að hafa fyrir því að senda okkur línu á meðan að þú ert í burtu. Í mesta lagi...
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
2 years
InSAR mynd gerð úr Sentinel-1 gervitunglamyndum og spannar tímabilið 20. júlí to 1. ágúst 2022. Myndin sýnir vel Kvikuinnskotið milli Keilis og Fagradalsfjalls ásamt aflögun samhliða M5.47 Jarðskjálftanum sem varð við Grindavík þann 31. Júlí 2022
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Earthquake swarm began this morning close to Fagradalsfjall. An M5.7 earthq. occurred at 10:05 many aftershocks followed. Info will be updated when activity has been reviewed further. Activity is within the Reykjanes peninsula. Other locations of large earthquakes are unreliable.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Just now at 14:15 an earthquake occurred around 2,5km W of Nátthagi valley, first estimation of size is M5.3.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Hraun heldur áfram að renna úr nýjum sprungum, austur og niður í Meradali, hraunflæði talið vera um 7 m3/s. Hraunflæði úr gígunum í Geldingadölum er um 5,5 m3/s. Sprungurnar eru í heild um 200m langar, í sömu stefnu og fyrri sprungur. Rauða línan er sprungan sem opnaðist 19 mars.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
2 years
1/2 At 7:26 an M4.2 earthquake occurred a km S of Fagradalsfjall and it was felt widely in SW-part of ICeland. Around 1200 earthquakes have occurred so far today but 3600 were detected yesterday, thereof seven M4.0 or larger. No signs of volcanic tremor.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
2 years
Today December 6th at 06:16 an M3,0 earthquake was detected at Grimsvatn. A few aftershocks have been detected, the largest M2.3. No volcanic tremor has been detected. GPS measurements in Grímsvötn shows that the ice-cap has subsided by about 77 meters.
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@Vedurstofan
Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Óholl loftgæði í grennd við eldstöðina í kvöld. SV-læg átt, gert ráð fyrir vindstyrk undir 3m/s. SO2 gæti farið yfir 9000 µg/m3. Heilsuverndarmörk eru 350 µg/m3. Ráðlagt að yfirgefa svæðið fyrir 17:00, fara ekki í dali/dældir og halda sér innan stikuðu gönguleiðarinnar. #eldgos
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Around 1400 earthquakes were located in the Reykjanes peninsula yesterday, the 17th of March. Three earthquakes measured larger than magnitude 3, the largest a M3.3 at 2:37AM around 1km N of Nátthagi valley.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
6 years
New satellite images of Öræfajökull volcano shows that a new ice-cauldron has formed within the caldera. It seems that geothermal water has been slowly released from underneath the cauldron to the glacial river of the Kvíárjökull outlet-glacier.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
7 years
Í morgun kl 09 mældist snjódýptin í Reykjavík 51 cm sem er nýtt febúrarmet, gamla metið var 48 cm frá 1952. #snj ódagur
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Since midnight over 1300 earthquakes have been detected on the Reykjanes peninsula, the largest an M3.4 at 08:36. The activity was mostly centered around Mt. Fagradalsfjall and east of Mt. Þorbjörn.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Today, March 12th at 07:43 an earthquake around 5.0 was detected 2.7 km SSW of Fagradalsfjall. It was felt well in neighbouring towns.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
2 years
Today at 15:03 M4.7 earthquake was detected near Stóri-Hrútur in Geldingadalir. Several aftershocks have been detected, the largest M4.0. At 18:28 an M4.3 earthquake was detected near Stóri-Hrút. Over 2600 earthquakes have been detected since midnight. No signs of volcanic tremor
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
At 14:15 there was an earthquake of M5.4 about 2.5 km W of Nátthagi. No seismic tremor measured as a result. The quake was felt well in the SW corner, north of Sauðakrókur and south of the Westman Islands. Another earthquake at 14:38 with a magnitude of 4.0 (first estimate)
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
1/4 An intense earthquake swarm started on the Reykjanes Peninsula at 10 am on February 24th with an earthquake M5.7 followed by an M5.0 some 30 mins later. The earthquakes were widely felt in the SW part of the country, in NW Iceland all the way to Ísafjörður.
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Veðurstofa Íslands / Icelandic Met Office
3 years
Talið er að ef til goss kæmi yrði það á sprungu einhvers staðar á svæðinu þar sem kvikugangurinn er að myndast. Jarðskjálftavirkni utan svæðisins við kvikuganginn er merki um spennulosun en ekki að þar undir sé kvika á hreyfingu. #jar ðskjálftar #Reykjanes
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