{"id":12411,"date":"2024-01-17T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2024-01-17T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:51:10","slug":"update-on-the-activity-in-hagafell-on-17-january-2024-at-0003-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12411","title":{"rendered":"Update on the activity in Hagafell on 17. January 2024 at 00:03 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sorry that I am late on this. I’ve been working on my new server computer and its taken longer then expected.<\/p>\n

The eruption has ended and it only lasted about 41 hours. The lava did burn down three houses and cause damage to road, cold water lines, hot water lines and electric lines into Grindav\u00edk town. A new rift valley formed east of the rift valley that formed on 10. November 2023. This has resulted in that Grindav\u00edk town is now an extreme danger area because of cracks in the ground that are up to 40 meters deep until a ground water level is reached. GPS data is a mess because all this been moving the crust up and down, depending if the area is either east or west of the rift valleys that have formed. It takes few days to see how fast the inflation is now in this area. The magma that erupted now did come from a sill that is located in Skipast\u00edgahrauni and Eldv\u00f6rpum area to the west of the eruption site. It doesn’t seems like the sill close to Svartsengi erupted this time, since no deflation was detected there during this eruption.<\/p>\n

The maximum amount of time until next eruption is around 30 days, with error of eight days at maximum. This might be shorter, because it seems that inflation speed is increasing. There’s lot of uncertainty in this because how the crust is now around Grindav\u00edk town.<\/p>\n

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Map of the rift valleys that have formed in the activity on 10. November 2023 and 14. January 2024. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The eruptions are moving south along this area and that’s bad news, because that places the next eruption in middle of Grindav\u00edk town, once it happens in around 30 days. As is, the town of Grindav\u00edk can’t be lived in because of dangers from the faults and cracks in the ground. There has also been a major damage to infrastructure inside Grindav\u00edk already and added to the already damaged houses, roads and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am sorry that I am late on this. I’ve been working on my new server computer and its taken longer then expected. The eruption has ended and it only lasted about 41 hours. The lava did burn down three houses and cause damage to road, cold water lines, hot water lines and electric lines … <\/p>\n

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