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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 7:57 AM, local time, on 14 January 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, just northeast of the town of Grindavik. The fissure quickly lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread in multiple directions, including toward Grindavik.
Update: the eruption ceased very early in the morning on Tuesday, 16 January 2024.
Tags: Hagafell Grindavik Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland 14 January 2024 fissure eruption eruptions lava flow flows basalt basaltic
N 0
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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 7:57 AM, local time, on 14 January 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, just northeast of the town of Grindavik. The fissure quickly lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread in multiple directions, including toward Grindavik.
Update: the eruption ceased very early in the morning on Tuesday, 16 January 2024.
Tags: Hagafell Grindavik Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland 14 January 2024 fissure eruption eruptions lava flow flows basalt basaltic
N 0
B 171
C 0
E Jan 14, 2024
F Jan 14, 2024
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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 7:57 AM, local time, on 14 January 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, just northeast of the town of Grindavik. The fissure quickly lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread in multiple directions, including toward Grindavik.
Update: the eruption ceased very early in the morning on Tuesday, 16 January 2024.
Tags: Hagafell Grindavik Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland 14 January 2024 fissure eruption eruptions lava flow flows basalt basaltic
N 0
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(graph provided by the Icelandic Meteorological Office)
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At 7:57 AM, local time, on 14 January 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. It was preceded by hundreds of minor earthquakes, which started at about 3:00 AM (= cluster at far-right on the graph). The strongest quake was magnitude 3.5.
Locality: Sundhnúksgígar crater row, Reykjanes Peninsula, southwestern Iceland.
Tags: earthquake earthquakes quake quakes pre-eruption Iceland 14 January 2024 Sundhnúksgígar crater row Reykjanes Peninsula seismogram seismograms
N 3
B 362
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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 7:57 AM, local time, on 14 January 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, just northeast of the town of Grindavik. The fissure quickly lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread in multiple directions, including toward Grindavik.
Seen here is a lava flow on the outskirts of Grindavik from 3:30 PM-onward. Its path (from left to right) has been diverted by embankments.
Update: the eruption ceased very early in the morning on Tuesday, 16 January 2024.
Tags: Hagafell Grindavik Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland 14 January 2024 fissure eruption eruptions lava flow flows basalt basaltic