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The situation at Litli-Hrútur volcano at 13:21 on August 6 2023.

The Litli-Hrútur eruption is over for now

6 Aug The eruption at Litli-Hrútur is over, or more accurately it was basically over yesterday. If the activity rebounds after this point, it would be a new volcanic eruption.

No action detected since 15 AM yesterday

6 Aug There has been no activity in the eruption at Litli-Hrútur volcano since 15 AM yesterday.

Max Fosh was well perpared for cooking his dish at Litli-Hrútur.

Cooked a hot curry at Litli-Hrútur

1 Aug The British comedian and Youtube star Max Fosh cooked himself an Indian curry dish in the eruption at Litli-Hrútur volcano. He set himself the goal of cooking a well-made dish in a volcanic eruption two years ago, and achieved this goal here in Iceland recently. He enlisted the help of volcano enthusiast Christopher Horsley to complete his interesting cooking.

The two last eruption in Torfajökul glacier were in the year 871 and 1477.

Serious if Torfajökull caldera would erupt

1 Aug Volcanologist Þorvaldur Þórðarson says it is a very serious matter if a volcanic eruption occurred in the Torfajökull caldera.

The crater is getting quite full

24 Jul “You can see on webcams that the edge of the crater is getting quite full. It’s been building up quite well overnight.”

Firefighters resumed their work in putting out fires in the moss surround the eruption site at 8 AM this morning.

Putting out fires until 2 AM last night

14 Jul The fire was being put out in the vicinity of the eruption at Litli-Hrútur volcano until about two o’clock last night, according to Fire Inspector Daniel Karlsson, from the Grindavík Fire Department.

Lava spewing from volcanic fissures while toxic gases rise from the ground.

Public Access to Eruption Restricted

10 Jul Public Access around Litli-Hrútur's eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula has been restricted due to toxic gases. National Police is enforcing the ban.

An earthquake over 3 in magnitude was detected in Mýrdalsjökull glacier last night.

Still quakes in the Katla volcano area

3 Jul An earthquake of 3.1 magnitude hit Mýrdalsjökull glacier just before 23 PM last night. The quake is the larger of the glaciers that have hit the glacier this weekend, but before the weekend a seismic swarm began in the area.

In the eastern part of Mýrdalsjökull glacier is the volcano Katla, which is partially covered by the glacier.

Stronger quakes in Mýrdalsjökull than thought from the first estimation

4 May The quakes that hit Mýrdalsjökull glacier in the early hours of this morning turned out to be bigger than the preliminary results indicated. After further inspection, the Met Office now believes that the three largest quakes were 4.8, 4.7 and 4.5 magnitude, which had previously been estimated to be 4.5, 4.3 and 4.2 magnitude.

"There may be an eruption tomorrow"

4 Mar 2023 Volcanologist Þorvaldur Þórðarson believes it likely that Askja volcano is at an advanced stage in the process of preparing for an eruption. The events that have taken place in the last few weeks, such as increased seismic activity and the increase in surface water temperature, fit the pattern of the volcano being well advanced in that preparation.

Picture taken of Lake Askja last week when the scients were evaluating the situation and put in the thermometers that are now missing.

Can't find the thermometers

22 Feb 2023 The thermometers, which were thrown into Lake Askja during a mission by geoscientists with the Coast Guard's TF-SIF last week, are now not found. “They are somewhere under the ice so we are thinking about putting in more meters,” says Ármann Höskuldsson, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences, who went on an expedition across the lake yesterday aboard a helicopter.

The gate to the Cemetary with the volcano in the background. The gate reads: I will live and you shall live - a saying that thankfully applied to the volcanic eruption in 1973.

50 years since the eruption in Heimaey

23 Jan 2023 The history of big events is worth remembering, celebrating, and learning from, as much as possible. The volcanic eruption in Heimaey in the Westman Islands, which started half a century ago, on the night of January 23rd in 1973, is such a case. It is still amazing that no harm or loss of life occurred when the cold winter night erupted literally in the outskirts of the town of Westman Islands and one of the biggest sea ports of the country. The islanders set out in the dark of night with fishing boats and made it to safety on the mainland.

The glacial flood probably reached its maximum last night

14 Oct 2022 The glacial flood in Grímsvötn in Vatnajökull continues and now it is estimated that the water coming from Grímsvötn isover 350 square meters per second.

Svanur Gabriele and Arnúlfur were at the eruption site in Meradalir last night and saw a stream of red hot lava south of the main crater, even though the volcano is dormant.

No harmonic murmurs, but flowing lava was detected last night

22 Aug 2022 Last night flowing lava was visible at the eruption site at Meradalir, even though no harmonic tremors have been detected from the crater since yesterday morning.

The eruption at Meradalir has been losing momentum for the last ten days

19 Aug 2022 The geophysicist Páll Einarsson says that the volcanic eruption in Meradalir has been slowing down considerably in the last ten days. He says it is difficult to know whether this is a slowing phase and the eruption will gain more power soon or if the eruption is permanently losing momentum.