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Minimal Seismic Activity Recorded at the Sundhnúkur Crater Row Since Monday - 8.11.2024

Updated 12. November at 17:45 UTC

Seismic activity along the Sundhnúkur crater row remains relatively low. Typically, a few earthquakes are recorded each day and are generally located between Stóra-Skógfell and Sýlingarfell. In recent days, however, weather conditions have decreased the sensitivity of the seismic monitoring system.

Ground uplift and magma accumulation under Svartsengi continue at a similar rate to recent weeks. An estimation of the volume of magma that will likely be required to trigger a new intrusion or eruption has been calculated. The minimum volume required is estimated to be approximately 23 million cubic meters. If magma accumulation continues at a similar rate, this threshold could be reached by the end of November.

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Continued greenhouse gas emissions could trigger a regional cooling around the North Atlantic - 19.10.2024

Continued greenhouse gas emissions increase global warming, but could trigger a regional cooling around the North Atlantic. In an open letter released today at the Arctic Circle conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, 44 leading experts on ocean circulation and tipping points from 15 countries appeal to the Nordic Council of Ministers to take this risk seriously, initiate a risk assessment and take steps to minimize this risk as much as possible.

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New Icelandic Met Office weather and climate supercomputer, becomes operational - 23.9.2024

The National Meteorological Institutes of Iceland, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands have joined forces to respond to climate change with more timely weather forecasting on a new, now operational, common supercomputer. This helps prepare each nation for the impacts of weather patterns, which are expected to become more extreme and more challenging to forecast.

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One month since the start of the eruption at the Sundhnúkur crater row - 16.4.2024

Today marks one month since the beginning of the eruption that is ongoing at the Sundhnúkur crater row. The eruption, which began on the evening of March 16, is the fourth in a series of eruptions that started when magma began accumulating beneath Svartsengi in late October 2023.

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