{"id":12541,"date":"2024-02-08T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12541"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:35:31","slug":"eruption-started-in-sundhnukagigar-at-0602-utc-on-8-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12541","title":{"rendered":"Eruption started in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar at 06:02 UTC on 8. February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning (08. February 2024) at 06:02 UTC an eruption started close to Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar, close to the area where the eruption started on 18. December 2023. The eruption fissure is at the writing of this around 3 km long, but the fissure is getting longer, based on views from web cameras.<\/p>\n<p>This eruption is at favourable location. Since its far way at the moment from all buildings and infrastructure. That might change if the fissure stretches more to the south. This eruption started really quickly, according to R\u00fav, from the start of the earthquake swarm until the eruption started the time was only about 30 minutes. The time this took on 18. December 2023 was 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12543\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ruv-THorbjorn-2-webcamera-svd-08.02.2024-at-0745utc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12543 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ruv-THorbjorn-2-webcamera-svd-08.02.2024-at-0745utc-1024x576.png\" alt=\"View of the eruption from \u00deorbj\u00f6rn - 2 web camera. The red glow is at the distance.\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ruv-THorbjorn-2-webcamera-svd-08.02.2024-at-0745utc-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ruv-THorbjorn-2-webcamera-svd-08.02.2024-at-0745utc-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ruv-THorbjorn-2-webcamera-svd-08.02.2024-at-0745utc-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ruv-THorbjorn-2-webcamera-svd-08.02.2024-at-0745utc-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Ruv-THorbjorn-2-webcamera-svd-08.02.2024-at-0745utc.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eruption at R\u00fav webcamera from YouTube. Copyright of this image belongs to R\u00fav ohf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12544\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12544 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240208_0750.png\" alt=\"Red dots and green star along the dyke and the fissure. The earthquake activity goes all the way to the Grindav\u00edk town.\" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240208_0750.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240208_0750-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity along the fault valley and the dyke. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12545\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12545 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240208_0750_trace.png\" alt=\"Earthquake activity in the last 48 hours. Showing increase in small earthquake activity from midnight 00 on Wednesday and until the start of the eruption at 06:00 Thursday.  \" width=\"540\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240208_0750_trace.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/240208_0750_trace-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake activity over the last 48 hours. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more information later today when it is clear how this eruption is progressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning (08. February 2024) at 06:02 UTC an eruption started close to Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar, close to the area where the eruption started on 18. December 2023. The eruption fissure is at the writing of this around 3 km long, but the fissure is getting longer, based on views from web cameras. This eruption is at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12541\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eruption started in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar at 06:02 UTC on 8. February 2024&#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":[24,10,34,17,89,64,40,351,346,206,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-eruptions","category-gps-data","category-gps-monitoring","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-sundhnukagigar","category-sundhnukar","category-svartsengi","category-swarm","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541","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=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12547,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions\/12547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}