Fagradalsfjall volcano update: Activity continues without significant changes, slowly decreasing trend
Tue, 1 Jun 2021, 14:52 14:52 PM | BY: T

Lava fountain activity at Fagradalsfjall last night (image: RUV webcam)
Episodes of lava fountaining had been becoming more rare and weaker, and the eruption style has for most time been purely effusive: lava erupted from the vents directly is going directly into lava tubes to feed more distant locations of the slowly growing flow field, or into shorter near-vent surface flows.
Last night around midnight, however, an uptick of activity could be seen. Several pulses of low lava fountains occurred at the main crater and lava flow activity seemed to increase at least temporarily.
So far, the newly built western dams (to prevent lava flows going towards and cutting the ring road) seem to hold.
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