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Live blog will again pause

Risk assessment lowered in Grindavík; Civil Defence reduce alert level

Reykjanesbraut speed limit cut

Police warn against walking up to the eruption

Now erupting in a section about two kilometres long

Flugfarþegar að lenda og sjá eldgos

Air travellers react to sight of eruption

Work on defences continues

No evidence that Grindavík and Svartsengi are in danger

Blue Lagoon prepares to reopen

Strong northerly winds again help with pollution

Eruption not over but reaching equilibrium

Dróni frá Grindavíkurvegi

The eruption from Grindavíkurvegur at around 10.30am

Employees allowed in Svartsengi and Blue Lagoon may reopen tomorrow

Met Office: significant reduction in activity, Grindavík not imperilled

Grindavík residents wishing for eruption to subside

Flights to, from and within Iceland are unaffected

Lava flow does not threaten HS Orka's water pipes

View from the capital

The night in pictures

Víðir: The most powerful eruption is in the northern part of the fissure that opened first

Peninsula still very much awake after eight-century slumber

Myndskeið af eldgosinu við Sundhnúksgíga sem Eyþór Árnason, ljósmyndari Morgunblaðsins, tók úr þyrlu Landhelgisgæslunnar aðfaranótt 23. ágúst 2024.

Myndskeið af eldgosi úr þyrlu Landhelgisgæslunnar 23. ágúst 2024

Video from the Coast Guard's helicopter

Seismic activity decreased significantly after opening of new fissure

See location of the fissures

Lava flow does not threaten roads at this time

Live blog will pause

Concern over Svartsengi cold water pipes

Greatest eruptive power to the north

Lava moved at 2 km per hour

Eruption in favourable location

Stormy weather helps blow pollution away

"We watched the earth open like a zipper"

Eng clip fissure

Lava moves at significant speed

Fissure around 4 km long at 11.15pm

There hasn't been a bigger earthquake since December

Fissure is as long as the December eruption - but no lava flows to Grindavík

The main eruption is near Skógfell

Flights are again unaffected by the eruption

Fissure almost 4km long; quake felt in capital

Time lapse eruption

A dramatic time lapse video shows the spread of the lava

RÚV has another TV bulletin at 11.30pm

Reykjanesbraut must be passable in worst case scenario

Benedikt Ófeigsson: good news for Grindavík?

Image sequence shows speed of lava

Víðir: focus on protecting infrastructure

Successful evacuation

Magma breaking to the north?

The first aerial view of the eruption

Fissure length uncertain at this stage

No way to know when this ends

eldgos séð úr keflavík

The eruption seen from Njarðvík

Reykjanesbraut was closed for a short time but is now open

Þorvaldur: Eruption will grow for the first two to three hours

Grindavík evacuation nearly complete

High plumes, long fissure

Eruption began at 9.26pm

Focus on defending Grindavík and Svartsengi

Do not go to eruption site

Here are five different streams from RÚV's webcams on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

(The fifth stream, currently showing output from RÚV 2, will switch in the event of relevant activity.)

Five RÚV webcams from Sundhnúksgígar

Watch eruption LIVE here

Civil Defence co-ordination centre activated

Eruption begins

Göngufólk að horfa á eldgosið úr öruggri fjarlægð.

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<p data-block-key="yr807">Another volcanic eruption started on the Reykjanes Peninsula on 22 August</p>

Eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula