Crater rims growing – Land deformation continues

Considerable magma activity remains in two craters north of the fissure in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row. The craters are very close to each other and the rims are gradually growing.

The activity is similar to what has been happening recently, according to Bjarki Kaldalón Friis, a natural disaster expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

There has been little seismic activity in the magma tunnel and the land has continued to sink because the magma chamber is emptying. The Met Office's GPS meters show this.

No air pollution is measured now, as the wind is light. According to Friis, the wind is north and the smoke therefore blows out to sea. The afternoon of today and tonight turns to the west, and then pollution could cross over Southland.

Wildfires also do not seem to have been large during the night in the area of ​​the eruption.