The size initially looked like a vent more than a volcano. As a geologist I am thrilled to see the chemistry is primitive and originates from such depth. Another two important changes: 1. The rate of flow is increasing. 2. The temperature has increased as evidenced by the lighter color of the lava as it exits the cone. First colors were red and orange. Now it is yellow and upon occasion pale yellow.

I have spent so many hours this past seven days watching the lava field gently yet persistently grow. If it's being fed by a hotspot, it could go on for a long, long time. Mesmerising.

The live feed of the volcano with sound is my lullaby.

Your channel is so good. Clear, concise and factual. Your coverage of the eruption is so much better than anything I’ve seen on the TV.

Yes! The videos are very mesmerising! But yours are the most interesting and informative 😉😘

my ancestors travel from Norway to Iceland, then fled Iceland in the 1700's to Ireland about the time of the Laki eruption.

Thank you. Very interested in seeing the wider picture of where the lava might flow.

Dear 'Just Icelandic', I really apperciate your videos which give a perfect authentic view of what Iceland makes so special or so 'icelandic' - at least in my eyes. A special thank for not jumping on the popular train of all the actual selfie tourism to Geldingadalir to catch even more spectacular pictures but for observing the situation in a sober and informative way. This is the right approach. We don't know what will happen. But there is obviously the begin of somthing new. Shield volcanoes are pretty common in the landscape of Iceland but their creation was never witnessed. This 'tourist eruption' may slowly develop to something much bigger and more serious than we can imagine now - but we will see.

i've been playing the live volcano feed on a spare screen lately, it's somewhat like having a fireplace :)

This guy seems to make a lot of sense. He's the only one asking questions in a serious way. I guess it's just a waiting game. It would be devastating if those others start to erupt.

Thank you for your updates, it is fascinating to see the progression!

Thank you for giving location context to this volcano. I have been fascinated by volcanoes for a long time, having lived in places with old volcanos remnants and with dormant or semi-active ones. I love geology in general and I am also passionate about history. In the past years I’ve read a lot of Icelandic history and so all of this happening at once and being able to see it is absolutely wonderful. So any information you can give would be great.

Hi, U are doing the right thing holding back, the is a vast amount of the same video clips, pictures, etc. I appreciate the fact that u haven't been tempted to go down the "Tabloid" sensationalism route but have provided honest assessments based on the info from the specialists, or not as is the case in today's video. Look forward to the new videos, stay safe ;@)

Hey Just Icelandic~ Thank you for this! Fascinating if not a bit intimidating thinking about you all here, even while sitting in my living room. Especially with "more questions than answers." Thinking of you all and always wishing you the best. Take good care and stay safe.

Iceland is an indicator of the periodicity of earth cycles, let history be your guide .

Fascinating. Thank you for asking the questions. Inquiring minds want to know!

It is very fascinating. I'm pleased you are creating videos to give us all a better understanding of the area.

Thanks Gylfi. It is nice to get some more background info, even if there are more questions than answers. It is a fascinating story that keeps evolving and surprising.

It does feel logical that the same deep chamber feeding the magma is finding a weaker surface point, rather than force up through the old volcano cones it follows an easier path. Excellent channel and well delivered information, I have subscribed. Have you ever been a coach tour guide in Iceland, I feel like I may have met you on a tour a few years ago!

Thank you. Stay safe

I hope the geology department of the university of iceland is comparing the geochemistry of these shield volcanoes on the peninsula with this current erupted lava. Should give a better idea if they also originated from the same source region (crust-mantle boundary)

Big thumbs up for this video. I appreciate your updates very much. I agree that this eruption quite possibly could go on for a very long time (I'm kind of hoping that it does, because in that case I'll be able to visit it myself some day ;). Also, I'm looking forward to your footage of the volcano! All the best to you over there, Raphael

Thank you for sharing and please stay safe and well 👍👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏

Great questions Gylfi. I’m a geologist and anthropologist who did his PhD on geoparks (including Katla geopark as one of my case studies). My view is that geos including vulcanologists generally do not get training in communications and translating their science for the wider public. Gaps certainly need bridging..

Thank you...Very interesting and enjoyable to watch. I really like your accent too! I got into watching this eruption and now I'm hooked and will watch developments!

We have watched many videos on the eruption. Yes, it is very mesmerising! This video is the best overview we have seen. Well done & thank you!

Thank you for the updates.

I have seen volcanos on Hawaii. I believe Mano Loa is a shield volcano that covers half of the “Big Island”. The shield volcanoes on Iceland are more evenly shaped than Mano Loa from what I can see in your photos. I know so little about the geology of Iceland , but I’m learning a lot from your videos. I love your maps.

Greetings from Ireland Hildarmenn. Really enjoy your informative videos!

Wishing you all the best from Glasgow, Scotland.

Thank you for your great insights. I love your videos!

Thank you for the update! I wait patiently to hear from you. You pose some valid questions and I hope your beautiful island is not adversely affected by this new volcano!

There’s a lot of things to consider here ground deformation is it still inflating or is there deflating going on. And what about tremors are they increasing decreasing etc. What about the gases what’s their make up what percentage of the different gas is coming out of the volcano. And then you have to consider the make up of the lava itself? All these things need to be considered the best thing to do is compare it to previous irruption‘s of similar volcanoes then you can start making a educated guess on what’s going to happen I’m sure your people are on it.

I think the reason we are all so mesmerized by this is the fact how unbelievably much bigger this is than us. Also, it's - at the moment, at least - safe so we can watch this without the hassle of screaming and running for our lives. Looking at the map at 3:12 I wonder: If this is a local shield volcano and the eruption stays there and goes to the south, this should be a wonderful touristic opportunity for you guys? You didn't sound very enthusiastic, so is there something I am missing (which is highly likely)? Concerning the big shield volcano the highway goes over: If this new one is connected to that, doesn't that make an eruption there very unlikely, as lava is essentially a thick fluid and will go the way of least resistance, therefore to the new volcano? And finally, a very well deserved "well done!" - this video is perfect in length, full of information and little speculation which is clearly identified as such.

Tks again for a good update.

So this could become a very large volcano? Interesting! We visited Iceland again in 2014, there were quite a few EQ’s in the weeks before our arrival and I joked to my brother that the ground was going to open up and erupt as we landed at Keflavik

I"m Hawai'ian, and we're used to living with shield volcanoes that are effusive. The lava sometimes burns up neighborhoods, and all we can do is watch as it slowly creeps like a glacier towards peoples' homes. But hey, we perservere, make national parks based off our volcanoes, and even put astronomical observatories on top of one of them (Mauna Kea). Tourists come from all over the world to see them and their slow eruptions, generating millions of dollars each year. Since Iceland had to have a new volcano, an effusive shield volcano is probably the best you could get. If the lava heads toward town, all you can do is get out of the way and record it on your phone.

Thank you for your videos! Always interesting and with good insights too on how Icelanders feel about things. This is culturally very good to know. Yes, keep us posted! :-)

Thank you so much! I had seen the change in the eruption but couldn’t make sense of it, and couldn’t find any mention of the change in English! As always, you are our ace interpreter. 👍 Good luck finding your new aviator. Sorry, the commute is too far, so I won’t be applying for the position. 😁

This geologist finds this vid absolutely fascinating. Your work is much appreciated.

Thank you for the thoughtful insight, background information and context. This is what I've been missing in the last few days. You're right when you say watching it is mesmerizing, I had all four cameras up on four sceens. Stunning, awe-inspiring and beautiful at the same time, but also dangerous, so I hope it will not end up destroying lives or livelihoods. I've heard it poses problems around pollutants making it into the water around. But I have no idea how drinking water is handled in Iceland, so it would be interesting to hear in one of your next videos. Also, what are the local people living around it saying on TV and such? I'd probably be somewhere between oddly excited (as long as it stays fairly tame as it's now) and quite concerned, I assume.

Much appreciated. Thank you. Take care

I've been thinking much like others that this could just be the beginning. I'm sure the powers that be are already thinking about alternatives to KEF. It seems that the valley has filled and the lava is starting to flow south. I've been looking for wider shots if you come across any. You do a great job!

Thank you for the many updates!

Cant wait for your foto and video from volcano. i was there first day when Police give us access. Regards from Reykjavik Arbaer 😉

Thanks and keep us updated! I really like Your cute islandic English.

I love your videos. 💗

Fagradalsfjall is just so cute! The question is how long... Since the main german Volcano site wrote that the activity is in fact increasing I am curious how this will turn out. I feel like it might stay small but remain for long. After all, the vulcanologists are as far as I know surprised that Fagradalsfjall is actually still erupting, after all they predicted that the eruption won't last long, a few days at best. I feel like this is an unusual one...

You are great. Please make more reports. Thanks

Always grate to listen 🎧

Another great video. This one is going to run and run. Who knows, maybe decades. There are major cities situated close to very destructive volcanoes. Lava from Etna reached the city of Catania in 1669. You can still see it here and there. Out of the back window of the Benedictine abbey, now part of the University. Perhaps many of you here have also been keeping an eye on Etna over the last two months. Some big eruptions recently. Almost daily. But quieter now for the last few days.

very informative Sir. Thank you.

Think of a Lava Lamp, Switch the lamp on and the wax in the bottom begins to warm. Once the wax heats up sufficiently, it becomes less dense than the liquid it is in and becomes bouyant, warm blobs start to rise. Once they reach the top they stay for a while, then fall back down as they cool and loose bouyancy. Scale that up to Iceland and you have a good analogy for how the Iceland Mantle Plume works. The size of the seismic area of the last couple of months suggests a substantial amount of magma has risen beneath Reykjanes and burned through the crust, finding the weakness it needed to break through and erupt.

Thank you for your video. I watched the live feed before and are fascinated like you by the progression. I liked the maps and information about other shield vulcanos you included. I'm looking forward to a map of the potential flow of the lava. I saw an 3D map which helped with perspective but I couldn't see the height of the valleys on the exact metre. So I'm not sure which of the two escapes from the bath tub the lava will take.

I was thinking that this is a volcano in a way I had never seen an eruption before. I'm wondering how the earthquakes have been since this eruption, have they continued or has it subsided? Keep Safe My Friend and All Icelanders, Matt - Toronto, Canada

The biggest issue is that no-one has seen this before: our lives are may-fly short compared to geological processes, that the only sensible thing we can do is record events for passing onto future generations. That way, as and when such an event occurs again, our descendants will have something to refer to and compare their event to. As for us, we might as well watch Nature's spectacle, and keep on guessing what will happen next, from day to day. At least, with this style of volcanism, anyone in the path of the eruption is going to have time to get out of the way. And whilst they are watching the volcano grow, the leaders and lawmakers of Iceland will have time to ponder on what they need to do next.

impressive as always!!!

Suggest you watch dutchsinse channel for broader understanding. As long as the plate boundaries are shifting there should be continued flow. This is a major worldwide phenomenon. The position of Iceland on a plate boundary should give you an "Aha!" moment. Thanks for your continued vids and commentary.

Thanks again for the info. Lots of live feeds, not so much info. 👍

Thanks for your update. Lets hope that it doesn't cause more issues. The earthquakes have died down.

likw many others icelands new volcano just became my no1 post covid visit many years ago isialed up from soctland and visited the westmans and the volcanos out there

With the start of the eruption, we saw a sharp decrease of earthquakes, which now concentrate in five major places, that correspond with old lavafields. The earthquakes are lower in magnitude. Most of the attention now goes to the active eruption, while the earthquakes continue also in other areas. At one time there was also the expectation of multiple eruptions on the Reykjaness Peninsula. Question: Is any work being done on the other potential eruptionsites? If not, why not?

Thank you again for your excellent content

I love your videos and try to see them all. But could you please increase the volume in the videos? I have to set the audio on maximum when I listen to your videos. And when the commercials cut in they blast my ears away. Thanks for considering that!!!!

Thank you. On the feed

'she', is a very considerate volcano. Allowing so many tourists, not interrupting international traffic. And giving considerable time to the local population to move.

I saw yesterday (April 6) evening when darkness was dense enough the plane flying over eruption area approximately 10 km to each side from the center. Plane made accurate cross-hatch trajectories at height 1,000m (3500ft) approx. I understood then that all processes are observed with even more higher accuracy and responsibility. With all available tools.

great video thanks. can you put up the coordinates of the volcano please. how deep is the lava. what volume is coming out. are there any other live cameras. again great video. thanks for taking the time.

Thanks for sharing the video and your thoughts. I reckon that this may continue for some time yet. What does fascinate me is the development of new fissures or mini volcanoes. It has gone from 1 to 6 or 7 and the volume of lava being produced is quite astonishing. I am wondering if there might be a collapse of the terrain between some of these fissures to create an even larger outpour. I also wonder if the local experts have obtained thermal images of the area that would indicate how large the magma pool is. I have been watching the Hale um u crater activity in Hawaii. Thanks again :)

Håber, I alle er sikre. Hilsen fra Danmark.

The questions you raise are critically important, but as you say, the answers so far have been “we don’t know yet.” Understandable that they don’t want to panic people without knowing key information. At least topographic maps should show where the lava would go if it continued to erupt in the same place at the same rate and if no earthquakes changed the topography. Lots of “ifs” in that. You know the next valley, but as you say, what comes after that? Your coming report on a mature shield volcano might give an idea of whether the eruptions that produced it had explosive phases or moved around significantly. I am not a geologist, but even I can see that magma coming from so deep, in a place where the continental plates are pulling apart, on a peninsula with other large shield volcanos, is unlikely to be part of just a brief shallow event. Good wishes from across the ocean in New England.

Excellent episode. Well done.

I have some knowledge and experience with Hawai'ian shield volcanoes. And one thing which is known about them is that they have tendency to create their own geography. The original lines of steepest descend (direction where the lava is supposed to flow) are true only at the beginning and afterwards they need to be constantly redrawn as the volcano is creating its own terrain.

surtsey was formed in 1963. but very fascinating. i feel that both cones will merge .

“This is just the beginning” woohhhh, living on a giant volcano isn’t nothing at? 😲 It must be pretty cool though! Is it also possible that new peninsula’s can be formed? Like the one of Reykjavik? Or would that be a very destructive eruption? 😂

Fascinating. 🖖

thank you very much for the well measured update, with the sensible clarification that not all things have answers yet. People do not like 'we don't know' as an answer but thats the truth so often. Keep up the good work and keep safe...the 2020's have certainly started in a bad way...

Getting more and more like fulldal eldfjall 😊

Please, what direction is the camera facing?

Kveðjur frá Perth i Ástraliu (þó að ég sé ekki íslenskur): Takk kaerlega fyrir fróðlega athugasemd þina. Ég læri mikið af vloggunum þinum! Ég elska allt íslenskt. Það er verst að við erum föst hér vegna Covid. Að þvi að ég elska íslensku tungumálið, ég er að reyna að læra það - en ekki svo auðvelt... (að læra latínu var loksins gagnlegt). Ég reyni að nota “Google translate” ekki of mikið... bara svolitið! Ég vona svo sannarlega að eldfjallið verði ekki hætta fyrir íbúa reyjkjavíkur. Takk aftur fyrir að deila, Steven

The channel Geology Hub did a really good video on this eruption. I'm sure he can help answer your questions. :)

We all have so many questions as to what scenarios may happen. I am wondering about the changes to the existing cones and if other cones are forming. Thanks for all your videos and research behind them! From 🇨🇦.

It is incredible difficult to predict eruptions. There are to my best knowledge no accurate way to measure the entire system that feed the magma to the volcano. Yes there are indications of from how deep it comes, but there are no good resolution tools that can "see" how much lava is down there, or measure the pressure in the magma chambers and tubes going upwards. All we got are what we know from other previous basaltic eruptions, and how long they lasted, and they vary a lot. I do not know all the data about previous eruptions in this area. Long lasting eruptions can be both one eruption that just goes on for years, or it can be one volcano that erupts for some weeks or months every few years, or it can be a system of volcanoes that take turn erupting from time to time over a long time. All of these scenarios are possible options for this volcano. It is really hard to tell. If geologists say they do not know, it is because that is how it is. We do know a lot about volcanoes and eruption, there are good warning indicators for eruptions that are under development, but with new eruptions sites like this, it is really any ones guess how long it will go on for or even if this eruption is a one off or if it will be a volcano that will erupt periodically for thousands of years to come.

They really won't be sure when it will stop until it stops. The scientists are in a really tough spot as far as providing comforting answers. I have to think these giant shield volcanos evolve over a huge amount of time though. Hopefully at least many, many human lifetimes. But it's definitely concerning I'm sure. Good luck!

A symptom of the current magnetic reversal. More catastrophic events to come.

There is a lot of aspiration in the pronunciation of the Icelandic language, a sort of breathy 'h' sound that precedes or accompanies many consonants. It is hard for Icelanders to eliminate this when speaking English, and even harder for foreigners to acquire it when trying to speak Icelandic . . .

Chile Is a country of volcanos too

I think its only just getting started. Also the flow has increased quite a lot in the last two days

By looking at the top of tropical maps and where you will find streams the lava like water will pick the easiest path it's just a lot slower

All I can say is, if I lived near there I’d be moving my gelding (and also my mare) to another, far away, valley. It’s easier to do an emergency evacuation of people than large animals.

"Ridiculous that this is happening so close to Reykjavik" Well, if you build your country on a volcanic Island, this shouldn't be a big surprise.

Laki erupted (and I think) for about 10 months? It produced great quantities of gas, one was fluorine. They have just found fluorine in puddles near Geldingadalur. I believe this a hotspot plume that could last decades. Animals during Laki had fluorodosis, it is not a nice way to die, very painful. Laki also caused 10s of thousands of deaths in Europe. Maybe this is why it is so silent on behalf of the scientists?

Do you see the two vents eventually merging into one? and if that happens how would this change the eruption and the flow of lava? Do you think the lava flow would increase or essentially stay the same? Thank you for the continuous information. Been following since before this event took place !

Yes it is fascinating. I’ve asked before ... how high is the tallest cone now? Thank you for your thorough coverage.

I watched yesterday (26th) when the fissure wall broke open and lava started to flow behind of what we can see on these images....I’m thinking both fissure will become one and carry on to fill the valley (fulldal eldfjall) and I feel this will continue for a few months give or take....stay safe..

Is this having any effect on the ports? A lot of Atlantic shipping tranships at Reykjavik.

Can you stream or upload in 2k or 4k? These images are so glorious that 1080p just doesn't do it justice at all. Thanks mate =)

If thats a shield volcano, you may want to move... a rift eruption has potential to go on for centuries even if its not a shield type event. It would be interesting if it does result in one though, it would have long term consequences we can even imagine.

what happened to the links you had on this site?

You might want to start looking for a good spot for another airport. Looks like the prevailing wind will blow the gases away, nearly all the time. So the capital city should remain habitable for quite a while. Water pumping might be able to divert the lava, if it heads that way. Maybe run electric cables to the pumps and you could pump water all the time, without using millions of liters of expensive diesel fuel.