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Erupting again https://livefromiceland.is/webcams/fagradalsfjall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68589594

Eruption happened at 10.17pm last night according to reports from the Icelandic Met Office after a swarm of minor tremors increased in magnitude from 9pm onwards. Main earthquake (4.2) on the Reykjanes seems to have occurred about 10.00pm, followed by another quake or large aftershock (4.1) at...

Should be ‘tectonic’ - bloody auto-complete - I didn’t notice that when I posted - apologies. A lot of shaking on the Reykjanesviti camera (on Iceland Live webcams) at 3.00am - wind or ground tremors? EDIT- Ground tremors according to the Iceland earthquake tracker - looks like a lot of...

Some excellent expert volcanologists on the case here https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-fagradalsfjall-volcano-eruption-concerns/#:~:text=Eruptions%20on%20the%20Reykjanes%20Peninsula,was%20dominated%20by%20ash%20production. “It’s currently unclear how large a potential...

Some good background so far https://www.icelandreview.com/ask-ir/whats-the-situation-on-the-reykjanes-peninsula/ “As always, volcanic activity is difficult to predict. As the last eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula have shown, Iceland has some of the best-monitored volcanoes in the world...

I don’t think Iceland is being ‘torn apart’ by earthquakes in any area yet so a little hyperbole in the thread title (but I clicked it so it worked 🙂) - so far the capital has not been effected - all these bar one larger quake are a swarm of mini-quakes, only 3 are over 3 mag, the largest being...