After increased seismic activity between the volcanoes Fagradalsfjall and Keilir (over 7,000 earthquakes recorded since July 4th) the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland stated that a magma chamber between the volcanoes could potentially erupt in the near future. The eruption's force is estimated to be of the same magnitude as the eruption of Fagradalsfjall in 2022.
I am so worried about the current situation in Iceland and so sorry for the people of Grindavik.
I followed the last three eruption via live cam and had the time of my life. Iceland is very close to my heart and it hurt so bad having my health and other things out of my control keeping me from traveling there again. This volcano (system) and the live coverage helped me through some tough times in these last three of years, as ridiculous as this sounds. I wrote a whole book with him watching me type in 2021. He was there looking awesome and fierce in the midst of a snowed in landscape, while I wrote what later became my second published novel.
He took me and others completely by surprise in 2022 and picked me up during the most frustrating time of the year.
I spend nights with him just a couple of months ago, both of us wide awake, me because I couldn’t sleep from pain and worry due to my shitty health. I will never forget the otherworldly almost-sunsets I witnessed in July 2023.
In saddens me to scroll through the news, more so when I come across posts by people worrying about planes being cancelled bc they’d love to travel there as soon as possible and take picture the likes they saw online from prior eruptions. I wish they’d check the news before thinking about what’s to gain.
Leaving a link to one of Icelands news channels here for easy access to the developing situation in hopes that against all odds what happened so far will be a major false alarm and nobody will be in harms way: https://www.ruv.is/english/2023-11-10-magma-intrusion-under-grindavik-eruption-likely-live-396249
Also the newspaper Reykjavik Grapevine has a very informative (and fun) youtube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@TheReykjavikGrapevine
[The regular Newscast is often presented by Valur Grettisson and his dog Pollý while taking a walk through Reykjavik.]
Not me visiting Fagradalsfjall volcano only days before it erupted. 🌋 I didn’t get any photos too close to the edge but all that black stuff is lava from last year’s eruption. & you can’t tell, because it kind of just looks like Austin is sitting right next to a small stream of lava, BUT it’s like hundreds of feet down and he’s just sitting on the very edge and that’s a very large stream of lava.