Volcano & Seismic Updates
When do you consider a volcano to be “over” or when can you really be certain? The answer to this question has been in the Icelandic news for the last days. “We can say that this phase is over in itself,” says Ármann Höskuldsson, volcanologist...
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Volcano 2021, 29 July Sometimes we can’t resist and just have to visit the volcano. We were driving to Reykjavík when we saw that the volcano is showing its beautiful red colors and almost waving. The picture you see on the left was taken just 300 m from our...
Volcano & Seismic Updates
We receive a lot of questions about the volcano. Where to park, where to hike etc. Our customers that have visited the Volcano all say the same. “We should have worried less about this information! Just go there and it is perfectly clear.” For people that...
Volcano & Seismic Updates
Þorvaldur Þórðarson, professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, says there is no indication that the eruption in Geldingadalur is coming to an end, even though the visible lava flow is changing. The lava has now become rock lava, which insulates much...
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BOOK NOW BOOK NOW Dear Friends of Camper Iceland We have had the craziest two years since we started! As many of you know our fleet reached over 180 vehicles during the “boom”. Would you believe that we sold 150 vehicles since COVID-19? Not to worry, we...
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From the beginning of measurements, there have never been as many hours of sunshine in Reykjavík in the first nine days of May as now. This is what meteorologist Trausti Jónsson informs. Sunshine hours in Reykjavík were 210.6 in May last year, which was 18.6 hours...
Volcano & Seismic Updates
The total flow of lava from all the craters of the eruption sites in and around Geldingadalur was about eight cubic meters per second in the past 24 hours. This is shown by the results of geoscientists based on data obtained by flight at noon today. Aerial photographs...
Volcano & Seismic Updates
Technically it’s still the same Volcano. However, the third crack opened at midnight between the two “Volcanoes” in Reykjanes, according to Einar Hjörleifsson, a nature conservation expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office. The new fissure...
Volcano & Seismic Updates
While tourists and locals are visiting the Volcano another volcano erupts. Local authorities have closed down the site and are trying to get people away from the scene. A helicopter from the special forces is on the way to assist. The new volcano erupted just minutes...
Volcano & Seismic Updates
Camper Iceland @ the Volcano March, 2020 BOOK NOW PROMOTION CODE & MORE NEWS Yes! It's a tourist attraction and experts say it will stay for a long time First earthquake: 24th of February Total earthquakes before eruption: ca. 40.000 5,7 m3/sec so far over...
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Almost 40 people in different conditions received help from a first aid center that the Red Cross opened at the local School in Grindavik (Hópsskóli Grindavík) last night. One was transported by ambulance from the station due to injury. No one was in danger, according...
Volcano & Seismic Updates
“This is a relatively primitive basalt and different from what occurred in fissure eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula on 9-13. Century. It looks a bit like a mound of eruptions in older mounds on the peninsula, “says dr. Guðmundur Heiðar Guðfinnsson,...
