N 0
B 88
C 0
E Aug 22, 2024
F Aug 22, 2024
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(graph provided by the Icelandic Meteorological Office)
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At 9:25 PM, local time, on 22 August 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. It was preceded by numerous minor earthquakes (= "red" cluster in the right portion of the graph).
Locality: Sundhnúkur Crater Row area, Reykjanes Peninsula, southwestern Iceland
Tags: southwestern Iceland earthquake earthquakes quake quakes seismicity 22 August 2024 Reykjanes Peninsula Sundhnúkur Crater Row
N 0
B 236
C 0
E Aug 22, 2024
F Aug 22, 2024
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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 9:25 PM, local time, on 22 August 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, at Sundhnúkur Crater Row, north-northeast of the town of Grindavik. As with previous eruptions in this area, the active fissure lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread out in multiple directions.
Update: the eruption ended on 5 or 6 September 2024.
Tags: Sundhnúkur Crater Row Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland basalt basaltic mafic lava flow flows fissure fissures eruption eruptions 22 August 2024
N 0
B 230
C 0
E Aug 22, 2024
F Aug 22, 2024
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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 9:25 PM, local time, on 22 August 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, at Sundhnúkur Crater Row, north-northeast of the town of Grindavik. As with previous eruptions in this area, the active fissure lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread out in multiple directions.
Update: the eruption ended on 5 or 6 September 2024.
Tags: Sundhnúkur Crater Row Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland basalt basaltic mafic lava flow flows fissure fissures eruption eruptions 22 August 2024
N 0
B 121
C 0
E Aug 22, 2024
F Aug 22, 2024
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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 9:25 PM, local time, on 22 August 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, at Sundhnúkur Crater Row, north-northeast of the town of Grindavik. As with previous eruptions in this area, the active fissure lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread out in multiple directions.
Update: the eruption ended on 5 or 6 September 2024.
Tags: Sundhnúkur Crater Row Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland basalt basaltic mafic lava flow flows fissure fissures eruption eruptions 22 August 2024
N 0
B 513
C 0
E Aug 22, 2024
F Aug 22, 2024
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(screen capture video from the Grindavik web camera atop Thorbjörn)
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At 9:25 PM, local time, on 22 August 2024, a fissure eruption started in southwestern Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, at Sundhnúkur Crater Row, north-northeast of the town of Grindavik. As with previous eruptions in this area, the active fissure lengthened and basaltic lava flows spread out in multiple directions.
Update: the eruption ended on 5 or 6 September 2024.
Tags: Sundhnúkur Crater Row Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland basalt basaltic mafic lava flow flows fissure fissures eruption eruptions 22 August 2024