Geldingadalur, Fagradalsfjall Volcanic Eruption

Fascinating.

So the eruption has resumed....but with the 9 days of cooling and hardening of lava, it appears the easiest path to the surface is not the higher crater lip, but multiple other locations as seen by the many small geysers of lava in the video.

Awesome!

After the eruption stopped a few months ago, a new d-i-k-e intrusion is taking place as per the local earthquake swarms.....it follows the pattern before the initial eruption.

Earthquakes have died down a bit which happened a few weeks before the initial eruption.

The anticipated new eruption site will be in the general vicinity of the original one, but we won't know where until it happens.

If it happens on the coastal side of the mountains, we might see lava flows that cross the local road and reach the ocean.

They are anticipating a smaller amount of lava overall compared to the initial eruotion.

PS...I had to space out d-i-k-e because this site won't allow me to use that word....apparently the slang use is more important than the actual word meaning.

Nice video showing the new fissure eruption taken just 6 hours or so after the start. Great video from about the half way point onwards shows the eruption. Amazing.

The nicest, most well behaved volcano around.

18m^3/s lava flow at the moment. That would put over 500 feet of lava on top of my 75'x150' lot every day.

2,034,125 cubic yards a day.

253,256 dump trucks full every day.

4 minutes in shows the new fissure (now consolidating into one with cone) and the lava river from a breach in the harder lava that had been pooling the lava nearer the vent.