{"id":13913,"date":"2024-11-21T01:49:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2024-11-21T02:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T02:28:58","slug":"eruption-has-started-in-sundhnukagigarodinni-in-svartsengi-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13913","title":{"rendered":"Eruption has started in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar\u00f6\u00f0inni in Svartsengi volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (20-November 2024) at 23:29 or 23:30 UTC an eruption started in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar\u00f6\u00f0inni in Svartsengi volcano. This is the earliest that eruption has started in this location for the last year since this eruption sequence started in Svartsengi volcano. The time between eruption is however among the longest ones or 77 days. The fissure that the eruption is happening in is at current time around 3 km long.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13915\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13915 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241121_0035.png\" alt=\"Red dots along the Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar crater row as it started erupting in Svartsengi volcano. \" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241121_0035.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241121_0035-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The earthquake activity in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar crater row. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13916\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?attachment_id=13916\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13916 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-020912-1024x576.png\" alt=\"The lava fountains of the eruption as it started at 23:25 UTC in Iceland. Cloud of gas drifts towards south as wind is blowing from the north.\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-020912-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-020912-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-020912-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-020912-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-020912.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early in the eruption in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar\u00f6\u00f0inni. Screenshot from R\u00fav web camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13917\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?attachment_id=13917\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13917 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-015338-1024x576.png\" alt=\"The eruption at 00:53 UTC. The lava fountains are lower and the gas cloud is smaller. Lava is seen flowing to the west from the eruption.\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-015338-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-015338-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-015338-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-015338-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skjamynd-2024-11-21-015338.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eruption at 00:53 UTC in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar\u00f6\u00f0inni in Svartsengi volcano. Screenshot from R\u00fav web camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The harmonic tremor signal at the start of the eruption was very small. Suggesting that this eruption is not that large. If that holds true, it is possible that this eruption is not going to last that long and might be over by next week at the longest. Only time is going to tell if that happens or not. The main eruption happens in the first 6 to 8 hours.<\/p>\n<p>If needed. I&#8217;ll write a new update on what is going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (20-November 2024) at 23:29 or 23:30 UTC an eruption started in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar\u00f6\u00f0inni in Svartsengi volcano. This is the earliest that eruption has started in this location for the last year since this eruption sequence started in Svartsengi volcano. The time between eruption is however among the longest ones or 77 days. The fissure that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=13913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eruption has started in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar\u00f6\u00f0inni in Svartsengi volcano&#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":[71,170,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fissures","category-gas","category-svartsengi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913","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=13913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13923,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions\/13923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}