Gas pollution is not expected during the Reykjavík Marathon or Culture Night tomorrow, according to an announcement from the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

The activity of the eruption has decreased somewhat since it was at its peak last night and it is mostly confined to the northern end of the fissure that opened first and on the fissure that opened last night north of the original fissure.

A big earthquake struck at 10.37 pm last night. It was felt in many places in the capital area.

A hiker had to be rescued last night. He fell into a crevasse while observing the latest eruption. The maximum speed has been lowered on a certain section of the Reykjanesbraut.

Here is live stream from mbl.is video cams from the eruption:

Jón Haukur Steingrímsson, geoengineer at Efla Engineering, says that the lava from the new eruption is heading north of Mt Sýlingarfell.

The Blue Lagoon activity area in Svartsengi has been evacuated and it took about 40 minutes. About 1,300 people, guests and staff, were in the lagoon when the upheaval began. Guests have reached the end of the road or are on their way to other hotels.

A considerable number of cars are now driving Grindavíkurvegur Road from Svartsengi and Grindavík, but evacuation is ongoing. Rescue teams were at the intersection of Reykjanesbraut and Grindavíkurvegar and stopped those who wanted to get closer to the eruption.

An amazing spectacle unfolded when the Coast Guard's helicopter flew over the volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula not long ago.

Interpol is looking for an Icelandic man in his thirties, Þórir Kolka Ásgeirsson.

Two people were found dead in a house in Neskaupstað earlier today. One person has been arrested in connection with the investigation. This is stated in an announcement from the police in East Iceland.

Þorsteinn V. Jónsson, a meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, advises people going to Culture Night to dress well and bring mittens and a hat.

One reason why the Sundhnúkagígar crater row has not yet erupted, despite the fact that the volume of magma under Svartsengi is greater than was estimated for the last eruption, is that in each eruption and magma run, the horizontal pressure that holds the magma chamber grows. Thus, more pressure is always needed to overcome the tension in the earth's crust.

"It's calm at the moment, but of course, everyone is on their toes and ready to react if it starts to erupt."

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland has decided to keep the bank's interest rate unchanged. The bank's main interest rate, interest on seven-day fixed deposits, will therefore remain at 9.25%.

Work on the connection of Suðuræð 2 hot water supply ended at 22.40 last night and water was started to be released back to the transport channel before midnight. It was over in the middle of the night.

"I was just there the same day, these were men I had met the day before and we had breakfast together."

"The attendance was triple for us, roughly estimated, this morning compared to an average day, so we take this very seriously," says Drífa Magnúsdóttir, director of the Laugardalslaugin, in an interview with mbl.is about the number of visitors this morning due to the lack of hot water, adding that some people visited this beloved energy source of Reykjavík just to take a shower.

Today there is a prospect of a northerly breeze in the country, but a stronger wind in the east. A little rain will be in the northeast and cool in those areas. Generally, it will be clear skies and beautiful weather in the South and West with a temperature of 15 degrees Celcius at the best.

The route Fjallabaksleið north into Landmannalaugar is in the worst shape these days, but the reason for that is the recent rainy weather, which caused the Road Administration to not be able to grade the road. Now, however, the aim is for that work to be completed in the next few days.

The luxury yacht Octopus is now docked at Faxagarður in Reykjavík Harbor. The yacht is owned by Swedish tycoon Roger Samuelsson, who owns a majority stake in the Swiss pharmaceutical company SHL Medical.

Over the past few days, the number of earthquakes has increased day by day around the Sundhnúkagígar crater row. About 110 earthquakes were recorded yesterday, August 18, but there were about 60 to 90 per day last week. More than 50 earthquakes have been recorded since midnight.

"I don't understand how it can be messed up so much," says Telma Rós Jónsdóttir in an interview with a mbl.is reporter about the incident in Rome where she, her boyfriend, and a 14-year-old boy were not allowed to board a flight to Iceland that they had already paid for.

The police in the capital area were called in three separate projects in the western part of Reykjavík where persons under the influence with a knife were reported.

According to Jóhanna Malen Skúladóttir, a natural disaster expert, the land mass at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row has slowed down. Seismic activity remains high in the magma tunnel, up to 90 quakes per day.

"I don't understand how it can be messed up so much," says Telma Rós Jónsdóttir in an interview with a mbl.is reporter about the incident in Rome where she, her boyfriend, and a 14-year-old boy were not allowed to board a flight to Iceland that they had already paid for.

A magnitude 3 earthquake hit Grímsey shortly after midnight. The first measurements by the Icelandic Meteorological Office indicated that it was 3.4 in magnitude, but it turned out to be a magnitude 3.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 occurred in the south-eastern side of Bárðarbunga crater at 2.53 am last night. As a result, there were several smaller earthquakes, but there are no signs of unrest, according to the announcement by the Icelandic Met Office.

There will be no hot water for one and a half days in all of Hafnarfjörður, Kópavogur, Álftanes, Garðabær, Norðlingaholt, Breiðholt, Hólmsheiði, Almannadalur, and Norðlingaholt from 10 pm next Monday until noon on Wednesday, August 21.

The guitarist and prima motor of blues in Iceland, Halldór Bragason, died in the Amtmannstígur fire Tuesday. He was 68 years old. Halldór was the frontman of the blues band Vinir Dóra and performed, among other things, for the Reykjavík Blues Festival for years.

"I can only see that the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland will start some interest rate reduction process now," ASÍ president Finnbjörn A. Hermannsson says when asked what he thinks the committee will do at the next meeting.

The researchers of deCODE Genetics recently found rare genetic variations that increase the risk of Parkinson's disease, according to the announcement of the company. The discovery could raise hopes that it will be possible to develop new drugs for the disease.

“There is a continuing development and we are in the process of assuming that it can start erupting at any time,” says Benedikt Gunn­ar Ófeigs­son, the director of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Met Office, to mbl.is.

Musician Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir has been nominated for the MTV VMA awards ceremony in New York City on September 11th.

All four passengers of the two cars that collided yesterday at Gígjukvísl River were foreigners.