Iceland volcano: Specialists reveal precise location for ‘likely’ eruption as magma movement continues – reside

Earthquake exercise has led to the deepening of the port at Grindavik, in response to native media outlet RUV.is.

The change in depth is due to the impression of the earthquakes, stated the port supervisor Sigurður Arnar Kristmundsson – who says it’s not all dangerous information.

He instructed he information outlet: “The docks seem to have sunk by 20-30 centimeters when we measured about 10 days ago and then there is a chance that, yes, the bottom has sunk accordingly.

“It’s no big news that the piers have sunk, but it can probably be fixed. But it’s good news that the bottom has subsided to the extent that the ships can have a greater draft when they come into port.”

Residents of Grindavik have now been away from their properties for greater than two weeks. As uncertainty hangs over when they may be capable of return, they had been in a position to put inquiries to the nation’s leaders at an occasion this week, report native outlet RUV.is.

Here’s a round-up of a few of the questions they requested:

Should the city have been evacuated earlier?

Víðir Reynisson, from the Icelandic police pressure, stated it was not essential to evacuate the city earlier. The first knowledge from 10 November confirmed that the magma hall was so removed from the city that it could take days and even weeks for lava to movement to Grindavík within the occasion of an eruption, he stated.

When will pipelines be fastened?

Works are underway with the venture anticipated to take place over the winter with completion in early spring.

How you get compensation for a home?

Compensation displays the injury that has occurred to the property. People have a 12 months to report the injury.

Where can youngsters go to highschool?

Children from Grindavik will be capable of use a college in Grafarvogur from 30 November.

Police have been permitting evacuated residents of Grindavik to return for his or her belonging and run industrial actions – and now they’ve prolonged the hours from 9am to 4pm to 7am to 5pm.

Companies can restart operations the place plumbing methods have been fastened, together with within the port space.

Police officers maintain tabs on the variety of individuals contained in the city by counting vehicles coming out and in every day.

The leisure comes because the Icelandic Met Office now predicts an eruption is extra more likely to be in an space north of Grindavík, and never throughout the city boundary.

A telehealth firm is providing healthcare and help to individuals evacuated from the city of Grindavik two weeks in the past.

With help from the federal government’s public security division, police and the Red Cross, firm Kara Connect has launched the service, with assist from volunteers.

Psychologists, household help employees and occupational therapists will all be readily available to supply help.

Sigrún Eggertsdóttir, an worker of Kara Connect, stated the residents had suffered an unlimited shock and the corporate wished to assist in their hour of want.

The Icelandic Met Office has up to date its readings for earthquakes recorded right this moment.

At 11.30am, it reported there had been round 180 minor earthquakes close to the dike within the Grindavik area to this point right this moment.

Of them, the most important had a magnitude of two.3 and was situated close to Hagafell, near the place the specialists imagine an eruption would take place.

Around 300 earthquakes had been detected yesterday, as seismic exercise continutes within the space.

As we proceed to concentrate on occasions in Iceland, there’s been some footage caputred of a volcano in Japan spewing ash and smoke in a spectacular eruption.

The eruption took place on Niijima island, some 100 miles south of the capital of Tokyo on 23 November.

You can watch the video by clicking right here.

Every morning the Icelandic Met Office isuses an update on earthquakes throughout the nation, together with the “volanic unrest near Grindavik”.

Its update at simply earlier than 6am this morning reported round 80 minor earthquakes close to the dike close to Grindavik right this moment, with round 300 recorded yesterday.

The strongest earthquake over the previous 48 hours was measured at 3.5 magnitude and was at Vatnafjoll, right this moment at 5.56am.

The continued seismic exercise comes because the Met Office warns an eruption “is stil considered likely as long as the magma inflow continues”.

The Icelandic Met Office has been doing further testing on the magma dike which formed on 10 November, resulting in the evaucation of the town of Grindavik.

It has found that the dike, at its depth, could be wider than initially assessed.

This means it will take more time for the magma to solidify, possibly a few months, and therefore the threat of an eruption will remain for longer.

The update reads: “Additional geodetical modelling has been performed to reconstruct the evolution of the dike which formed on 10 November.

“These newest results suggest that the dike at depth could be wider than initially assessed. The time needed to solidify the magma that intruded into the dike would be therefore estimated to be on the order of a few months.”

Here’s a map displaying the world the Icelandic Met Office predict the eruption shall be, between Hagafell and Sýlingarfell.