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.

According to the Icelandic Met Office’s deformation measurement director, Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, the Icelandic authorities are still expecting a volcanic eruption at any time.

“The lows of yesterday are moving west to Greenland” a meteorologist at the Icelandic Met Office says in his thoughts on the Met Office’s website.

Almost one-third of Icelanders buy clothes online. Furthermore, Icelanders buy four times more clothes at foreign online stores than at Icelandic clothing stores.

The magma that has accumulated under the Svartsengi is slightly smaller in volume than Öskjuhlíð and about one-third of Mt Keilir.

United Airlines started today seasonal direct flights between Keflavík International Airport and its home port New York/Newark.

Volcanologist Þor­vald­ur Þórðar­son says­ it’s most likely­ that there will be a volcanic eruption at the Sund­hnúkagígar crater row, but it might take two more weeks­ before something happens.

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, former President of Iceland, has been honored with a special honorary award for his contribution to the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, which was held in the United Arab Emirates at the end of last year.

The reason for the pressure change that took place in the HS Orka well in Svartsengi yesterday morning is unclear, according to Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, the director of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Met Office, mbl.is reports.

“It’s just very surreal,” says Hrafnhildur Magnea Ingólfsdóttir, but the pop star Ariana Grande shared a video of her singing the song We Can’t Be Friends on her Instagram account.

HS Orka employees in Svartsengi were sent home earlier today due to changes in drilling holes.

Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the former Prime Minister, has taken the lead in the latest poll by Prósent Polling and Market Research, with 22.1%. Former CEO of The National Energy Authority, Halla Hrund Logadóttir, has lost a significant share of support, however, with just under 20%, just above Professor Baldur Þórhallsson with 18.2%.

Two Lithuanian men are still in custody on suspicion of murder in a summer house in the upper county of Árnessýsla County on April 20.