Ein­ar Bessi Gests­son a natural disaster expert at the Met Office told mbl.is this morning that there have not been a lot of changes in the eruption at Meradalir since last night, by the looks of webcam footage.

A man fell 20-30 meters down a gorge in Norðurdalur by the highway going up Steingrímsfjarðarheiði í Strandir yesterday.

The police authorities for the Reykjanes peninsula area have decided to close access to the eruption site at Meradalir. It started at 5 AM this morning and the decision will be reevaluated tomorrow afternoon.

The Pride Parade starts at Hallgrímskirkja at 2 o'clock today and ends up in Hljómskálagarður where there will be an outdoor concert to celebrate.

Foodies in Iceland can celebrate now because there is a new option on the culinary scene. The Foodhall Vera opened last night at Gróska's Creative Community in Vatnsmýri. "We are super excited that our idea is coming to fruition," s...

A group from mbl.is visited the eruption sitein Meradalir last night. They used a drone to capture the eruption in the dark and the result is nothing short of magical. Ágúst Óliver Erlings is credited as the videographer.

Rescuers from the Rescue Team Þorbjörn from Grindavík were monitoring the eruption site last night. They say that many of the hikers were not adequately prepared for the hike and many of them had no headlights while hiking in the dark, accordin...

The first data the scientists from The Institute of Earth Sciences on the amount of lava coming from the eruption in Meradalir shows that the first hours it measured 32 square meters per second.

The Government of Iceland has issued an announcement regarding the volcanic eruption in Geldingadalir.

The president of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson hopes that the volcanic eruption that started today will not cause damage and encourages people to hold off "rushing into the unknown", because there will be enough time to see the volcano ...

Magma has reached the surface in Geldingadalir in the Reykjanes peninsula. For the first time since last September, when lava stopped running from Fagradalsfjall, the tension has given a way for the magma to burst through.

At 5:32 AM this morning an earthquake of the size 4.6M was detected in the eastern part of Fagradalsfjall. This is confirmed by Hulda Rós Helgadóttir, a specialist in natural hazards at the Met Office talking to mbl.is.

“The average temperature was 1.0 degrees below average (1991-2020). 2015 on the horizon. Sunshine moments were slightly less and rainfall much more than in average July,” writes the meteorologist Einar Sveinbjörnsson og the Facebook page Blik...

Vign­ir Elv­ar Lund and Matth­ías Jök­uls­son are twelve years old and already doing business. Last weekend, when the biggest outdoor festival in the Westman Islands took place there were thousands of people partying. So the friends decid...

Since nine o'clock last night there have been over 1200 earthquakes detected. Nine of those have been more than 3M and the biggest of those was last night just before 2:30AM. The last one of those was detected at 6:46 AM and it was 3.2M.

Four strong earthquakes were strongly felt in Reykjavík in the last hour.

There is still a lot of seismic activity in the Reykjanes peninsula and over ten thousand earthquakes have been detected since the series of earthquakes started at noon on Saturday.

The celebrity chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay has visited Þrastarlundur twice, both to enjoy a meal and to get coffee, says Dagný Sif Jónsdóttir, the owner of Þrastarlundur.

“Specialists are saying that it looks like magma eruption could be causing the earthquakes. Either this will die down or the magma will find a way to the surface. More small earthquakes would suggest that.”

It looks like a small dolphin has drifted on shore in Grótta in Seltjarnarnes. Dr Filippa Isabel Samarra, a specialist in whales says it is clearly not a killer whale also known as an orca.