[gleeaikin]

What a dramatic picture. So glad my new Chromebook allows me to enlarge items on the screen. Hope this event does not damage air transport, or ruin the growing season in Europe like the Laki Fissure eruption in 1783(?)did, helping to cause the French Revolution.

[caww]

Well they’ve closed the air space already....no doubt they’re watching this closely.

[caww]

Earthquakes on the Reykjanes peninsula during the past 2 weeks (image: IMO)

The Icelandic Met Office (IMO) announced earlier today, that the total number of earthquakes in the region has exceeded 34,000 since the onset of the seismic swarm about 2 weeks ago.

For comparison, it had about 3,400 quakes in the whole of 2020, which also had shown elevated activity, while the average during the previous years was in the range of 1,000-3,000 quakes per year.