{"id":11429,"date":"2023-07-10T18:41:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2023-07-10T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:08:39","slug":"update-on-the-eruption-at-litli-hrutur-on-10th-july-2023-at-1841-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11429","title":{"rendered":"Update on the eruption at Litli-Hr\u00fatur on 10th July 2023 at 18:41 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update because events are changing quickly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Length of the eruption fissure is uncertain, reports are conflicting. The numbers I&#8217;ve seen are from 200 meters to 900 meters long. This also might be a case of growing fissure eruption.<\/li>\n<li>Harmonic tremor on the SIL station Fagradalsfjall continues to grow. Suggesting that the eruption is increasing in power since it started. This sometimes happens in lava eruptions.<\/li>\n<li>The lava is flowing to the south. It might reach Meradalir valley in about one\u00a0 week to three weeks. Some of the lava is flowing to the north, but a lot of less of it and is only expected to flow in the nearby area. There is no risk at current time for any damage to infrastructure or property.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a risk of new fissures opening up in this area without warning.<\/li>\n<li>This area is remote and difficult to go towards. Police has closed roads for the time being for safety reasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post new update soon as I have any new information or if anything changes. Experience has shown that this type of eruptions are rather uneventful for a longer time periods. I&#8217;ll adjust my updates in accordance with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update because events are changing quickly. Length of the eruption fissure is uncertain, reports are conflicting. The numbers I&#8217;ve seen are from 200 meters to 900 meters long. This also might be a case of growing fissure eruption. Harmonic tremor on the SIL station Fagradalsfjall continues to grow. Suggesting that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=11429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on the eruption at Litli-Hr\u00fatur on 10th July 2023 at 18:41 UTC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,215,71,9,213,82,345,64,40,207,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-eruption","category-fissures","category-harmonic-tremors","category-keilir","category-lava","category-litli-hrutur","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11432,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/11432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}