A new volcanic eruption recently began in Iceland just outside of the nation's capital. It is now day 17 of the eruption, and the main vent has erupted a grouping of golden volcanic glass. Known as "Pele's hair", it is an unusual type of long and thin lava flow strands. While the lava effusion rate has dropped in recent days, the trail leading to the eruption has been greatly improved. In this video, I discuss how this occurred.

Links to more official sources:

Icelandic Meteorological Office: https://en.vedur.is/
Government of Iceland: https://www.government.is/
University of Iceland: https://english.hi.is/

Regularly updated datasets:
Ground deformation: https://www.vedur.is/gogn/gps/
Harmonic tremor: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/englishweb/tremor.html

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Graphics of eruption dates are courtesy of the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institute. https://volcano.si.edu/

Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google

Special Thanks to:
-Daníel Freyr, @danielfj91 (Twitter)
-Department of Civil Protection in Iceland (Almannavarnir), https://www.almannavarnir.is/
-Iceland Met Office, https://en.vedur.is
-Ryan Webster, Youtube.com/c/XRyanLightning

Sources:
[1] Vedur.is / Iceland Met Office
[2] Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program, "Krýsuvík-Trölladyngja"
[3] Depart of Civil Protection in Iceland (Almannavarnir)
[4] USGS
[5] HVO

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