The chemical composition of the magma in the first four eruptions in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row on the Reykjanes Peninsula suggests that the magma comes from several magma chambers or vents that are close to each other at a depth of about five kilometers.
Þorvaldur Gissurarson, the CEO of ÞG Verk, says that the housing market has cooled down in recent weeks. However, it is premature to draw too many conclusions based on the sales of the last few weeks. A real estate agent that Morgunblaðið spoke to said the same thing, that the market had been slowing down recently. He believed that the main explanation was that the banks had raised interest rates on indexed housing loans.
"The weight of lambs after the summer is lower than sometimes before, and this can be attributed to the cold weather in the first week of June and the unfavorable weather this summer. This has an impact," says Eyjólfur Ingvi Bjarnason, a farmer in Ásgarður in Dalir and chairman of the section of sheep farmers in the Icelandic Farmers Association.
Svandís Svavarsdóttir, Minister of Infrastructure, plans to run for the position of chairman of the Left-Green Movement. She confirmed this to a journalist after the cabinet meeting yesterday.
Another fatal accident was yesterday, when a man who fell into Hlauptungufoss waterfall in Brúará River yesterday was found dead. It has been confirmed by the police in Suðurland that the man was a foreign tourist.
The driver of the car that crashed on the side of the road in Skagi earlier today has died. A passenger in the car was taken by ambulance to the Akureyri Hospital for further treatment.
The police in the North West a say that a notification was received at 2 pm today about a serious traffic accident at Fossá River on Skagi.
The police in the capital region will today demand the continued custody of the man who is suspected of killing his ten-year-old daughter last week.
This is what Minister of Justice Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir says, but she met with Nordic justice ministers in Sweden last Friday. The main issue on the agenda was organized crime in the countries.
Grímur Grímsson, senior police officer of the central investigation department, says that the police received a lot of footage from passers-by who drove along Krýsuvíkurvegur Road on September 15 between 1pm and 6pm, the same day a ten-year-old girl was found dead there.
The Coast Guard's helicopter is on its way to check if more polar bears can be found in the country.
So-called circular economy shops are becoming increasingly popular in this country, and in most of them, you have to book a stand several months in advance. A circular economy shop is a store where you can shop and sell used items such as clothing, shoes, and household goods. Usually the seller rents a booth, and sets up the products, but does not have to be on duty himself. The service to the seller then varies between stores.
The founder of the Yeastie Boys Bagels has arrived in collaboration with Deig and started conjuring up the famous sandwiches this morning, which are very popular in the state of California.
The police have received footage from passers-by who drove along Krýsuvíkurvegur Road, between Vallahverfi district in Hafnarfjörður and Vigdísarvallavegur Road on September 15 between 13 and 18, the same day a ten-year-old girl died there. The girl's father is suspected of having taken her life.
The only way to ensure the safety of people on Höfðaströnd was to kill the polar bear that walked ashore there yesterday. This is what Hlynur Hafberg Snorrason, a senior police officer at the police in Vestfjörður, says in an interview with mbl.is.
A little while ago, law and order received a report that a white bear had come ashore on Höfðaströnd in Jökulfjörður in the Westfjords. This is stated in a notification from the Westfjord Police on Facebook.
Minister of Justice Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir says that she will consider negotiating with other countries to deport prisoners with foreign citizenship who have been sentenced in Iceland.
The Palestinian boy Yazan Tamimi and his family will not be deported before next Saturday, and the family will therefore be able to request material treatment. This is due to lack of time. This is stated in the response of the National Police Commissioner to mbl.is' inquiry.
"It's a repeat scenario. We see a process very similar to the one after the last eruption," says Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, Head of Deformation Measurements at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, when asked about the situation at Sundhnúkagígar crater row.
"It is essential that we do not take part in promoting rumors on social media and that we help our children distinguish between what are facts and what are just rumors," says Reverend Arna Ýrr Sigurðardóttir in an interview with mbl.is.
"There is nothing to suggest other than that they were in normal communication that day and he had permission to be with his daughter," says Grímur Grímsson, senior police officer of the central investigation department in the capital area, about the man who is now in police custody as a suspect about killing his 10-year-old daughter Sunday night.
A request came from within the government for further discussion on the deportation of Yazan Tamimi before he was deported yesterday. Minister of Justice Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir agreed to that request.
A man suspected of killing his daughter has been remanded in custody until September 24. This is stated in an announcement from the police in the Metropolitan area.
Last evening, the Icelandic authorities picked up Yazan Tamimi, an eleven-year-old boy from Palestine with Duchenne disease, in Rjóðrið, the nursing and rehabilitation department of Landspítali Hospital for chronically disabled children, where he was sleeping.
Nexus Noobs' three-month youth LARP course kicked off this weekend and is part of a psychological study looking at social relationships, self-empowerment and other developmental factors in young participants.
Iceland's cyber security capacity has increased dramatically in recent years according to the International Telecommunication Union's newly published cyber security index for 2024.
"It was absolutely magnificent and one of the most beautiful things I've seen in Iceland," says Pálmar Ragnarsson in an interview with mbl.is.
Increased cooperation between the United States and Iceland, i.a. in the fields of technology and innovation, and bilateral relations between the nations were among the topics discussed at the meeting between Foreign Minister Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir and Kurt M. Campbell, US Deputy Secretary of State, which took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday morning.
"I've been meaning to come to Iceland for a long time, so I'm glad I finally made it and I've had a great time here. Thank you to everyone who has welcomed me," said the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie after receiving the Halldórs Laxness International Literary Award at Háskólabíó yesterday.
The bus that caught fire earlier today on the road around Tungudal in Skutulsfjörður had caught fire in Vestfjarða tunnel, according to an eyewitness to the incident.
A driver of a truck was arrested today on Villingaholtsvegur Road after dumping gravel from the platform of the truck onto the road and then running over a police car.
The funeral of Bryndís Klara Birgisdóttir, who died of her wounds after a stabbing attack in Reykjavík on Culture Night, began in Hallgrímskirkja church at 3:00 pm today.
Estimated total damage to structures in Grindavík could amount to up to 16-17 billion ISK. Natural disaster insurance has assessed the damage to residential buildings in Grindavík at 6.5 billion. Still, it has yet to complete the assessment of damage to infrastructure such as utilities, port facilities, and commercial buildings.
Arnaldur Indriðason, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, and Lilja Sigurðardóttir are among ten writers in the Nordic countries who have been nominated for the Petrona Prize in the UK, which is awarded for the best Nordic crime story.
The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has decided to refer a case against Iceland to the EFTA Court, as Iceland has not implemented four regulations in the field of financial services into national law.