Iceland Volcano Eruption Update; A 100+ Foot Tall Cone Forms, Blue Gas Plume

A large volcanic eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula has in the past week built a more than 100 foot tall brand new volcanic cone. This vent is still actively erupting, and is continuing to grow in size. Known as a spatter cone, it is the only vent stil erupting from what initially was a more than 10,000 foot long fissure. This video discusses what has occurred at the Reykjanes volcano in the past week.

A special thanks to afarTV for allowing me to use their livestream footage of the Bromo eruption.

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0:00 Reykjanes Eruption
1:07 Lava Flow Area
2:21 Hazard Zones
3:09 Degassing Vent

[catherinehubbard]

I continue to be amazed at how you pack so much vital, clearly presented information into less than 5 minutes. You also are providing important services in education and in safety updates on potential hazards around the world. Thank you.

[loekhabets]

0:41 introducing a new unit of distance: the Icelandic man

[thenutballnews]

Thanks for the update. Don't be surprised if the eruption is invigorated later this week.

[misplaced]

It's always so easy to underestimate the size of the cones! I love when people in the field put it into perspective.

[SuperYTPmaster]

I actually took some photographs of this eruption while on the bus from Reykjavik to Keflavik airport back on June 2nd. Never seen anything like it before, was truly incredible.

[mattheide]

Thank you for all of your hard work. I no idea that there's this much volcanic activity around the world. The displacement of peoples due to volcanoes is difficult to hear. 🙏

[setildes]

Great analysis as always, your videos are far better than similar ones.

[PamelaCunningham-sx]

Hello from Texas I love all your information please keep your information coming very important and interesting.

[xwiick]

Thanks for all the hard work on these videos

[mickyr]

You also have to take into account the perspective the camera creates as the vents are off in the distance and the camera is a fixed point so them measurements will be quite a ways off

[TheSpaceEnthusiast-vlwx]

Thanks as always, Geology Hub. It was quite fascinating to see the fissure erupt through the previous eruption's vents. The current spatter cones are quite large!

[gabwood]

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[creightondaniels]

Sir your awsome. Like I said "cinder cone with occasional bealching from ground water eruptions!'

[b.a.erlebacher]

When visualizing heights, I imagine a tall building. One storey is about 10 feet or three meters.

[carolynallisee]

OK, so the fact there is an actively degassing crack inside the protective walls of Grindavik is kind of worrisome. It might not suddenly start spurting lava now, but it does reveal a prevalent weakness in the crust that magma may break out of at some future date. I guess what everyone needs to keep in mind is that the whole area is a mass of dikes... and that new ones can and do intrude into old ones. I learned this fact from a book covering the volcanoes of Scotland, with the most recent activity there being a dike swarm on the western coast. The author mentioned it was difficult to know how many dikes there were because they intruded into one another, and it was hard to match up one side of a particular dike with its opposite because of this. Keeping lava outside of Grindavik using barriers is all well and good, but nothing will save the town if it breaks out in its' centre!
On size, scale and perspective, thanks for giving us an idea of how big the spatter cones are. Its so hard to tell the size of volcanic features without some frame of reference. An old book I had (and still have) had a picture of Erta Ale's lava lake in it... and for years I couldn't tell if what I was looking at was centimetres, metres or kilometres wide. I've since learned it's a big feature, but for some time, I couldn't be sure. Other photos of other places have left me equally confused... until I saw the diminutive people standing near by. One picture gave me a real shock when I finally grasped that what I'd thought was a human-sized feature was vastly larger!

[acciobricks]

Couple questions:

1. What is the thickest the lava has accumulated in a single area since before the first eruption? I imagine some of the lava is a few hundred feet thick with all the overlapping eruptions.

2. If you look at the upward motion graphs, the area has inflated about 0.6 meters since before the first eruption. Is there a reason that when the magma chamber empties it doesn’t deflate all the way? Is this indicative of a larger magma body or intrusion deeper within the crust?

[avnblck]

Hey Geology Hub, since wednesday some really shallow seismic activity is ongoing at an old fault east of Askja volcano, maybe an Intrusion? There is no seismic messurement equipment nearby to look closer

[Julian_Wang-pai]

I've heard elsewhere that this might be the last eruptive pulse of this episode; the claim is made on the basis that there's now no indication (ground rise/inflation) of magma filling the deeper chamber. I'd be very interested to read / hear your comments.

[poppawolf]

3 cubic m/s?....I think it is a little bit more than that...still waiting for the MET

[poppawolf]

chemical analysis by Earth Institute of Earth Sciences, suggest the current lava source is different...maybe the deep conduit or a new secondary conduit?...need more land rise data has sort of leveled off, but not increasing like last time suggest changes in plumbing underneath Svartsengi?