{"id":14078,"date":"2025-04-01T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14078"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:10:07","slug":"eruption-in-svartsengi-volcano-sundhnukagigar-crater-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14078","title":{"rendered":"Eruption in Svartsengi volcano, Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar crater row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning around 06:30 a dyke intrusion started in Svartsengi volcano with a strong earthquake swarm. An eruption started at around 09:50 UTC. This eruption is happening only in the area south of the area that erupted on 21. November 2024. A dyke formed in this even and is around 11 km long. This dyke might get longer and is possibly getting longer at the writing of this article.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14081\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14081 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250401_1145.png\" alt=\"A lot of red dots on Reykjanes peninsula because of the eruption in Svartsengi volcano, in Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar crater row. \" width=\"540\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250401_1145.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250401_1145-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake swarm because of dyke intrusion and eruption in Svartsengi volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14082\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14082 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250401_1145_trace.png\" alt=\"A view of the earthquake swarm. Showing the sharp increase of the earthquake around 06:30 UTC.\" width=\"540\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250401_1145_trace.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/250401_1145_trace-300x97.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the earthquake progressed today in Svartsengi volcano. Copyright of this image belongs to Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14084\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?attachment_id=14084\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14084 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skjamynd-2025-04-01-140754-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Picture showing the eruption south of the defense barrier. Abandoned greenhouse next to the defense barrier. Picture from R\u00fav web camera.\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skjamynd-2025-04-01-140754-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skjamynd-2025-04-01-140754-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skjamynd-2025-04-01-140754-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skjamynd-2025-04-01-140754-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skjamynd-2025-04-01-140754.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lava flow from R\u00fav web camera on YouTube. Screenshot from R\u00fav web camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This situation is still developing and can change quickly. I&#8217;ll post update as needed if anything major happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning around 06:30 a dyke intrusion started in Svartsengi volcano with a strong earthquake swarm. An eruption started at around 09:50 UTC. This eruption is happening only in the area south of the area that erupted on 21. November 2024. A dyke formed in this even and is around 11 km long. This dyke &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=14078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eruption in Svartsengi volcano, Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar crater row&#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":[24,10,34,64,40,351,346,206,57,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyke-intrusions","category-earthquakes","category-eruptions","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\/14078","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=14078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14085,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions\/14085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}