{"id":12756,"date":"2024-03-17T18:43:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2024-03-17T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:43:56","slug":"update-on-the-eruption-in-sundhnukagigar-svartsengi-volcano-on-17-march-2024-at-1828-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12756","title":{"rendered":"Update on the eruption in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar (Svartsengi volcano) on 17. March 2024 at 18:28 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update because I don&#8217;t expect a lot to happen in this eruption.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the main details as they are known on 17. March 2024 at 18:28 UTC. This is the best information I have at current time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The eruption has gotten smaller since it started yesterday (16. March 2024 at 20:23 UTC). The fissure is now only erupting in three to four locations.<\/li>\n<li>The lava field did reach the barriers that are protecting Grindav\u00edk town.<\/li>\n<li>This eruption is not slowing down as quickly as earlier eruptions.<\/li>\n<li>Harmonic tremor is mostly consistent but is lower than yesterday when the eruption started.<\/li>\n<li>The eruption fissure seems to be around 800 meters to 1 km long.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a ongoing risk of new fissures opening.<\/li>\n<li>Lava flow seems to have slowed down, but that might because it might be collecting in large lava ponds that break and then the lava rushes forward at great speed.<\/li>\n<li>Su\u00f0urstrandarvegur is at risk of getting buried by a lava flow. If that happens, the risk of the lava reaching the ocean increases, since from the road the distance is only around 500 meters.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no signs of this eruption ending on the web cameras.<\/li>\n<li>Craters have started forming in the active parts of the fissure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anything more happens I&#8217;ll post update soon as I can. Normally, an eruption from Svartsengi volcano only last around 1 day. If this eruption goes longer, then next update should be tomorrow or sooner if anything important happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update because I don&#8217;t expect a lot to happen in this eruption. Here are the main details as they are known on 17. March 2024 at 18:28 UTC. This is the best information I have at current time. The eruption has gotten smaller since it started yesterday (16. March 2024 at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=12756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on the eruption in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar (Svartsengi volcano) on 17. March 2024 at 18:28 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":[24,34,17,89,350,9,82,345,64,40,351,346,206,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-eruptions","category-gps-data","category-gps-monitoring","category-hagafell","category-harmonic-tremors","category-lava","category-litli-hrutur","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-sundhnukagigar","category-sundhnukar","category-svartsengi","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756","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=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12761,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}