A burst of earthquake tremors has been ongoing since 12.33 yesterday at Lágafell, southwest of Mt Þorbjörn, on the Reykjanes peninsula.

Unhealthy air quality was measured at the Blue Lagoon yesterday, which is closed as a result and does not reopen until 14 today. The pollution comes from the eruption in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row.

President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and First Lady Elíza Reid will travel to Edinburgh today.

An earthquake was felt in many parts of the southwest Icelandic region today. It triggered a seismic burst under Kleifarvatn lake. The burst, by contrast, appears to be receding.

The government-owned real estate company Þórkatla completed the first purchase agreements for residential housing in Grindavík yesterday. The real estate owners in Grindavík will receive 95% of the purchase price of their property the next week.

Grindavíkurvegur road, from Reykjanesbraut road to Grindavík, is now open to traffic. The opening-up is only valid for residents of Grindavík, first responders and employees of businesses in Grindavík and at Svartsengi.

The findings of the Uppsala University of Sweden's seismic group contradict the previous notion of the location of the magma chamber under Mt Fagradalsfjall.

Simon Chong, artistic director of the American comedy show Bob's Burgers, is a big fan of Icelandic musician Daði Freyr Pétursson. He showed his admiration in action and created a fun video of Daði Freyr, who shows the musician dancing and singing in the kitchen of the burger joint. The video also shows some of the main characters of Bob's Burgers.

The Blue Lagoon is closed today due to gas pollution from the eruption in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row. The plan is to open it tomorrow.

There have been suggestions on the Facebook neighborhood page “Betra Breiðholt” about suspicious travels of men wearing yellow vests in Selja- and Hólahverfi neighborhoods in Breiðholt. A resident in the area says that two men rushed away when he interfered.

Shouts were heard from the parliamentary platforms as Bjarni Benediktsson, the chairman of the Independence Party and the new Prime Minister, made a statement at a parliamentary session that began at 3 pm this afternoon.

Although the volcanic force has decreased, there are no signs of a decrease in total magma flow from the depths. It is difficult to predict when this eruption will end, it could continue for a longer period with stable flow or stop shortly.

Bjarni Benediktsson, the chairman of the Independence Party, will be prime minister.

The wall of the crater has broken with the overflowing lava flowing down to the north. According to Böðvar Sveinsson, a natural hazard specialist at the Icelandic Met Office, the situation is closely monitored.

A press conference has been scheduled at 2 pm in Harpa, where the chairmen of the government parties, Bjarni Benediktsson, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, and Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson will speak to journalists, who will most likely present a new government.

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir was a guest of Kristján Kristjánsson on the morning program Sprengisandur at Bylgjan radio. In the program, she was asked about her resignation as Prime Minister and why she decided to leave Parliament.

There is uncertainty about the future of the government due to Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister, leaving the government to run for President.

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has been appointed to remain as Prime Minister for the time being. Her request for her release has, however, been accepted by President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson.

“It started happening like 20 minutes over three, and then the surface of the magma in the crater began to rise,” Elísabet Pálmadóttir, a natural hazard specialist at the Icelandic Met Office, tells us, as she looks out into the lava that now flows down the crater’s rim in the volcanic eruption at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row.

Inflation seems to have started in Svartsengi, although the end of the eruption at Sund-hnúkagígar is nowhere to be seen. More magma flows into the magma chamber under Svartsengi, than is flowing out of it and the inflow is not decreasing.

The Blue Lagoon will resume operations tomorrow at noon, even though the Chief of Police in Suðurnes has maintained that the current situation could be threatened by lava flow and gas pollution at Svartsengi. This was the conclusion after the meeting between the Blue Lagoon and the police authorities at noon today.

The hiker who was searched at Fimmvörðuháls yesterday has been found dead.

It seems that activity in the smaller crater in the volcanic eruption at Sundhnúkagígar crater row is fading out and the larger crater is taking over.

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir said she was on her way to the Cabinet building after the government meeting in Skuggasund 3, just now.

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has decided to run for the position of President of Iceland.

The National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, in agreement with the Commissioner of the Police in Suðurnes, has decided to lower the emergency level to the Civil Protection Crisis level due to the volcanic eruption between Hagafell and Stóra Skógfell.

Landsbanki has stopped buying and selling Norwegian krone and will cease buying and selling Swedish or Danish krone from May 3, 2024.

There are still no signs that the eruption at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row is coming to an end. Bene­dikt Gunn­ar Ófeig­sson, the director of de­formation measurements at the Icelandic Met­or­a­cal­ Office, believes it­s likely that the mag­ma is flowing from a depth of 15 km.

Things went better than expected when a man was caught in an avalanche east of Mt Höskuldsvatnshnúkur 10 km from Húsavík yesterday.

The Icelandic Met Office asks outdoor activists in the North-West and Eastfjords who plan to take advantage of the good weather and the new snow in the coming days to be careful. There are many areas where there are warnings of avalanches and there is a high chance that people traveling in steep terrain can start an avalanche.

At least five candidates for the office of President of Iceland have reached the minimum number of votes required to be eligible for election. 62 people are now gathering votes to be eligible for election.

A helicopter from the Icelandic Coast Guard was called out at 13.15 at the request of the police due to an avalanche in Böggvisistaðafjall mountain west of Dalvík.

The State Prosecutor has not yet appealed the ruling in the case of Sindri Snær Birgisson and Ísidór Nathansson. The Prosecutor has a week until the appeal expires.

There has been a good opportunity to observe the process of the eruption at Sundhnúkagígar crater row in the last few days, as the conditions for satellite observations have been unique.

The British Broadcasting Service has been sharing a highly-resonant composite video of the eruption at the Sund-hnúka crater. What is particularly striking are the northern lights that shine on the sky over the eruption.