Earthquakes in the Reykjanes Peninsula
There has been considerable seismic activity in Krýsuvík this morning. mbl.is/Árni Sæberg
There has been significant seismic activity on the Reykjanes Peninsula this morning, but many small earthquakes have been recorded in the Krýsuvík area, and seismic activity has been increasing at the magma tunnel in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row.
"I wouldn't call this a series of earthquakes, but it is common for many earthquakes to occur in this area," says Steinunn Helgadóttir, a natural hazard specialist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, to mbl.is, but at nine o'clock this morning, seven earthquakes were recorded northwest of Krýsuvík, the largest measuring 0.9.
Helgadóttir says that the earthquakes in Krýsuvík are not related to the events in the Sundhnúkagígar series. She says that there has been increased seismic activity at the magma tunnel, but magma accumulation continues under Svartsengi and has become greater than it was before the last eruption.
