{"id":9510,"date":"2021-06-18T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2021-06-18T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:00:40","slug":"update-on-the-eruption-in-fagradalsfjall-mountain-on-18-june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9510","title":{"rendered":"Update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain on 18-June-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a short update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain. It is still classified as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/volcano.si.edu\/volcano.cfm?vn=371030\" target=\"_blank\">Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja<\/a> volcano eruption. That might change in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There is no sign of the eruption is about to stop.<\/li><li>Most of the week the lava was flowing in lava tubes that where invisible from the surface. Today (Friday 18-June-2021) that changed and lava is now again overflowing over the crater.<\/li><li>The crater remains unstable and collapses from the inside walls are frequents, or used to be. It is possible that for now the amount of lava in the crater is holding the walls up.<\/li><li>N\u00e1tthagi is now flooded with lava and the lava is on its way out of N\u00e1tthagi in next few hours to days. There won&#8217;t be any attempt made to stop the lava reaching the road or the ocean.<\/li><li>Geldingadalir valley is now full of lava and has overflowed a little. Lava might flow into N\u00e1tthagakriki in next few days, but small dirt walls where pushed up to try and delay that from happening. It is unclear if that worked. But for now the lava has not flowed into that direction.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-11-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Yellow lava flows out of the crater into a lava field and creates a new lava river.\" class=\"wp-image-9512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-11-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-11-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-11-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-11-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-11.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The crater overflowing with lava. Copyright of this image belongs to R\u00fav.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-13-1024x576.png\" alt=\"A lot of smoke blocks the clear view into N\u00e1tthagi where the lava field is and is about to leave N\u00e1tthagi. Car can be seen at the end of the lava field.\" class=\"wp-image-9513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-13-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-13-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-13-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-13-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-18-13.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>View into N\u00e1tthagi but is in part blocked by gas pollution from the eruption. Copyright of this image belongs to R\u00fav.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently there are no other news about this eruption.  Next update should be on 25-June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain. It is still classified as Kr\u00fdsuv\u00edk-Tr\u00f6lladyngja volcano eruption. That might change in the future. There is no sign of the eruption is about to stop. Most of the week the lava was flowing in lava tubes that where invisible from the surface. Today (Friday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=9510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain on 18-June-2021&#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":[230,215,204,170,37,219,82,64,40,207,172,32],"tags":[221,226,222,228],"class_list":["post-9510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crater","category-eruption","category-fagradalsfjall","category-gas","category-krysuvik","category-krysuvik-trolladyngja","category-lava","category-magma","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-peninsula","category-toxic","category-volcano","tag-eruption","tag-fagradalsfjall","tag-iceland","tag-lava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510","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=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions\/9514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}