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The municipal council of Rangárþing East is working on exploring the feasibility of creating a national park in the Þórsmörk area.
The volcanic force at Sundhnúkagígar crater row apparently decreased significantly at two o’clock last night.
The eruption at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row does not seem to stop tourists from visiting the Blue Lagoon. When mbl.is journalists arrived around noon yesterday, there were a few tourists in the area.
The actor and presidential candidate, Jón Gnarr, no longer has his hair, as it was shaved yesterday. His son, Jón Gnarr jr., a new student from MS, shaved his dad’s hair from at their home in the western part of Reykjavík yesterday.
Various roads will be closed due to the storm that is due to hit today. Yellow and orange alerts are in effect.
The eruption at Sundhnúkagígar crater row continued last night with similar intensity as yesterday. The lava flow was slightly eastwards last night but it will be examined later today. There has been very little seismic activity in the area.
“I haven’t slept much, but I feel incredibly good. My heart is full of gratitude and also a lot of humility towards the trust the people are showing me and maybe the fact that there was a record-breaking turnout and I feel like the people voted with their hearts,” Halla Tómasdóttir, Iceland’s newly-elected president, told mbl.is earlier today.
Sailor’s Day was celebrated around the country today. A large-scale celebration was held at the Reykjavík harbor, which drew a great deal of cheers from young and and old alike.
Scientists at the Icelandic Met Office noticed yesterday morning that steam was rising at a defense wall near Grindavík. It is believed that a fissure has opened up there, but magma has not yet crept up there.
The final numbers are now in the elections for President of Iceland, and Halla Tómasdóttir will be the new President of Iceland and the seventh since the republic was founded.
Security issues have been reviewed and it is assessed that operations of the Blue Lagoon can be reopened after evacuation took place on May 29 due to the last eruption. Operations will open tomorrow.
The election for the seventh president of the Republic is today. There are 13 candidates running for office. The one who wins the most votes in the election will take over the president's office on 1 August.
The lava flow rate since yesterday’s eruption is the fastest since the eruption at Sundhnúkagígar crater row in December of last year.
Those residents of Grindavík who need to enter the town today will be granted permission to do so, as will business owners who work on saving valuables.
A man who was missing after falling in Fnjóská River was found dead in the river by Dalsmynni, northwest of Ártún in Grýtubakkahreppur, northwest Iceland, this morning.
Police used pepper spray on protesters gathered this morning at Skuggasund where a government's meeting was held.
Kristján Helgi Þráinsson, deputy director of the Reykjavík Metropolitan Police, says the police do what they need to do to solve problems that can arise during protests. He says the protests went too far and that one police officer had to go to the emergency room.
Some passengers blocked the movement of emergency responders at the closures around the eruption yesterday, according to Víðir Reynisson, the director of the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.
A black and brown plume rose from the southern part of the fissure at Mt Hagafell yesterday, and powerful explosions could be seen from time to time.
“We didn’t expect to see a volcanic eruption, but it’s amazing, very impressive. Especially the height of the eruption,” Matthias, a German who is in Iceland, tells us.
Land in Svartsengi sank about 15 centimeters when magma ran from the magma chamber into the Sundhnúkagígar crater row when the eruption began.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Halla Tómasdóttir are tied at the top of the presidential race with 24.1 percent in a new poll from Maskína. The elections will be held next Saturday, June 1.
This latest eruption, and the 8th that has occurred on the Reykjanes peninsula, does not affect air traffic, even though the international airport is relatively close by.
Lava has crossed over Grindavíkurvegur road. This is what Jón Haukur Steingrímsson, a geoengineer at Efla Engineering, says to mbl.is.
The hazard assessment is unchanged in Grindavík but the hazard assessment in Svartsengi and north of Svartengi has been moved up to red due to lava flow and gas pollution.
The eruption is the eighth on the peninsula in over three years and the fifth to break out in just over six months, since the first eruption in the Svartsengi system on December 18.
A volcanic eruption has started again on the Reykjanes peninsula. It appears that a volcanic eruption has erupted northeast of Mt Sýlingarfell.
An eruption just started in Sundhnúkagígar crater row as was first reported by mbl.is.
The eruption in Sundhnúkagígar crater row started with a bang at 12:46 pm today, May 29, 2024.
About 30 people, both contractors and production teams, were working at the HS Orka power plant in Svartsengi when an invitation from the Civil Protection Service to evacuate arrived at 11.05. Ten minutes later, all of them had left the plant.
The police in the Westfjords are investigating the death of two people in a home in Bolungarvík. The West Fjords Police announced on Facebook that they are a couple in their sixties.
According to the latest poll from Prósenta, the Icelandic Centre for Social Research, three presidential candidates share the top spot. Halla Hrund Logadóttir, Halla Tómasdóttir, and Katrín Jakobsdóttir all share a margin of between 20.1% and 21.0%, which is far from statistically significant, with a margin of between 18.1% and 23.2%.
Signs on Rangárvallavegur road at the scene of the bus accident on Saturday give certain clues as to what caused the accident. The driver and all 26 passengers of the bus were Icelanders, and each of them was taken to hospital with injuries.
A total of 80 earthquakes have been measured in the magma channel under Svartsengi in the last day. This is about the same number of earthquakes as were measured in the area before the weekend.
Shortly after 5 pm yesterday a bus with 20-30 passengers capsized on Rangárvallavegur road near Stokkalækur. All 27 people injured in a bus accident in south Iceland today are Icelanders. The injuries to people are different, but some are “major” according to police.
