Thousands of earthquakes recorded as consultants reveals website of eruption
- Iceland has skilled 2000 mini-quakes within the final 24 hours
- The eruption is anticipated to happen within the mountainous Hagafell area
Iceland consider they’ve pinpointed the doubtless website of a serious volcanic eruption after nearly 2000 mini-quakes had been recorded within the final 24 hours.
The Icelandic Met Office have warned that Hagafell is the ‘prime location for an eruption’, after magmatic fuel was detected at a borehole in Svartsengi which consultants say is a sign that an eruption is imminent.
4000 residents have already been evacuated from the close by city of Grindavik after the state of emergency was declared with the excessive risk that they are going to by no means return.
Volcanologist Haraldur Sigurðsson has mentioned that if an eruption had been to occur, he expects that it may erupt into the ocean and that Grindavik would must be ‘reorganised’.
![Pictured: Map showing the magma that was discovered last Friday coursing into the ground and fracturing rock over a nine-mile distance](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/11/77961297-12764913-image-a-34_1700307646543.jpg)
Pictured: Map exhibiting the magma that was found final Friday coursing into the bottom and fracturing rock over a nine-mile distance
![Iceland is a particular hotspot for seismic activity because it sits on a tectonic plate boundary called the Mid Atlantic Ridge](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77783533-12764913-Iceland_is_a_particular_hotspot_for_seismic_activity_because_it_-a-8_1700302339520.jpg)
Iceland is a specific hotspot for seismic exercise as a result of it sits on a tectonic plate boundary referred to as the Mid Atlantic Ridge
![Pictured: The town of Grindavik where a gaping crack has opened up next to a children's play ground](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77960655-12764913-image-a-14_1700304513242.jpg)
Pictured: The city of Grindavik the place a gaping crack has opened up subsequent to a kids’s play floor
![Pictured: A Member of the Coast Guard boards a helicopter at an area near the evacuated town of Grindavik on November 17](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77960651-12764913-image-a-15_1700304531033.jpg)
Pictured: A Member of the Coast Guard boards a helicopter at an space close to the evacuated city of Grindavik on November 17
‘I’m additionally anxious in regards to the port. It would not take a lot to destroy this port, fill it with lava,’ Haraldur advised Iceland’s Morgunblaðið (MBL) newspaper.
‘There are each cracks there within the harbour and even when the magma comes up someplace outdoors, it flows into the harbour, as a result of that is the despair.
‘So, within the massive image, this city must be fully reorganised,’ he added.
The Reykjanes peninsula didn’t skilled an eruption for eight centuries till 2021.
Since then, three eruptions have struck – all in distant uninhabited areas – and volcanologists consider this can be the beginning of a brand new period of exercise within the area.
One lifelong resident of Grindavik Eythor Reynisson mentioned: ‘There are going to be lots of people who do not wish to go there. My mom mentioned ‘I by no means wish to go there once more.”
![Grindavik is a town of arpund 4000 is about 31 miles southwest of the capital, Reykjavik](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77945689-12764913-Grindavik_is_a_town_of_3_400_is_about_31_miles_southwest_of_the_-a-13_1700303200963.jpg)
Grindavik is a town of arpund 4000 is about 31 miles southwest of the capital, Reykjavik
![Pictured: Grindavik, a fishing town that relies heavily on its port operations](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77960659-12764913-image-a-16_1700304673241.jpg)
Pictured: Grindavik, a fishing town that relies heavily on its port operations
![As a precaution for domestic and international air travel, the volcanic aviation colour code for the Reykjanes Peninsula has been elevated to orange (heightened unrest)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77776105-12764913-As_a_precaution_for_domestic_and_international_air_travel_the_vo-a-17_1700304849431.jpg)
As a precaution for domestic and international air travel, the volcanic aviation colour code for the Reykjanes Peninsula has been elevated to orange (heightened unrest)
Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester, Margaret Hartley said an eruption was a case of when, not if.
‘I do think an eruption will take place, but the big question is when that might happen.
‘The most likely way to create this fracture is that a pressure build-up of gas bubbles in the dike will force magma towards the surface, breaking the crust apart,’ she said.
‘The process is a bit like shaking up a can of fizzy drink – as soon as a crack opens in the top of the can, the drink escapes with lots of frothing.’
Scientists revealed to MailOnline how massive this eruption might be and whether or not it’s going to rival Eyjafjallajokull, which noticed 50,000 flights cancelled and eight million passengers affected.
It led to the biggest global aviation shutdown since World War II.
Iceland is a particular hotspot for seismic activity because it sits on a tectonic plate boundary called the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
The Mid Atlantic Ridge is a protracted chain of mountains that stretches down the Atlantic ocean, which means most of those mountains are underground. It’s regularly pushing North America and Eurasia away from one another.
Iceland is also located over a mantle plume – a column of hot, molten rock that rises from the deep mantle to the surface, becoming lava when it erupts.
![A member of search and rescue team jumps over the crack in a road in the fishing town of Grindavik, which was evacuated due to volcanic activity, in Iceland November 15](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77927665-12764913-A_member_of_search_and_rescue_team_jumps_over_the_crack_in_a_roa-a-10_1700302714833.jpg)
A member of search and rescue team jumps over the crack in a road in the fishing town of Grindavik, which was evacuated due to volcanic activity, in Iceland November 15
![General view of the town of Grindavik, which was evacuated due to volcanic activity, in Iceland](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77953609-12764913-General_view_of_the_town_of_Grindavik_which_was_evacuated_due_to-a-11_1700302743029.jpg)
General view of the town of Grindavik, which was evacuated due to volcanic activity, in Iceland
![Grindavik has become lined with massive cracks in the land that are billowing out steam](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/11/18/10/77953605-12764913-David_Jones_in_the_Icelandic_coastal_town_of_Grindervic_Iceland_-a-12_1700302758944.jpg)
Grindavik has become lined with massive cracks in the land that are billowing out steam
Evacuated residents have been returning to the town each day to collect belongings, but had to flee on Tuesday after the Met Office said its meters had detected sulphur dioxide.
In the past week, Grindavik has become lined with massive cracks in the land that are billowing out steam – the result of magma moving underground that pushes up on the Earth’s crust.
Last Friday Iceland’s Met Office (IMO) discovered that magma was coursing into the ground and fracturing rock over a nine-mile distance.
IMO’s Matthew Roberts said the magma cut through the ground beneath Grindavik ‘almost like an underground freight train.’ Images have since shown fissures appearing in the ground, and further damage to buildings and roads is expected.
Western parts of Grindavik have also sunk into the ground.
Haraldur said that it is now clear that the peninsula has awoken, and can now be considered an active volcanic belt.
So far nobody has been killed.