Welcome to our April-1 story which has the untruth, the whole untruth and nothing but the untruth. Nothing in here is real. Although even that is not true. The mentioned rocket propulsion methods all exist or are under development. Even the rocket railgun launcher, which we carefully made up for this post, suffered from a reality check when the Chinese company announced it while we were writing. The idea came from the VC brainstorm, the details and images were by Lughduniense and the text was by Albert. All of us deny all responsibility!
Mount Rainier to become spaceport
Mountain renamed Mount Bezos
A test launch of a conventional rocket from the Bezos sub-spaceport took place earlier today. (AI generated, of course..)
A top-secret development on Mount Rainier came out in the open this morning. There was widespread surprise and excitement when people in Tacoma and Seattle saw a rocket launched from the summit of the mountain. Shortly after, USGS announced that a new spaceport has been developed on the summit of Mount Rainier.
The development had been advocated by Amazon who is also the main operator of the spaceport. It has been funded entirely from private finance, shared between Amazon and the Ares Management Corporation.
The site is too far north for orbital launches (which need the extra push from the Earth’s rotation). However, it is perfect for suborbital trajectories. The announcement explains that it will become the world’s first sub-orbital spaceport.
Amazon will use the sub-spaceport for its revolutionary ultra-fast package delivery (UFPD) system. Launches from the site can deliver packages to any location in the US and even Hawaii within 20 minutes.
Amazon has named the ultrafast delivery service ‘Amazon SubPrime’, in recognition of the sub-orbital speed of delivery.
Mount Rainier
The mountain is uniquely suitable for this development. The summit altitude of 4 km greatly reduces the air drag during launch. The site is located less than 100 km from the Amazon headquarter campus in Seattle, and excellent road access is available because of the National Park. The Mowitch Lake road was paved during the winter closure.
As of today, Amazon has sole use of the Mowitch Lake road (SR 165). There is no longer access to Mowitch Lake or to the Wonderland trail from this road: all tourists are being redirected to the Paradise and Sunrise entrances on the south and east side to Mount Rainier. The summit area is wholly owned by the Amazon Ares Alliance, or AAA; access is restricted to Amazon SubPrime customers and suppliers.
The National Park has reverted to its original status of a National Forest, and now falls under the remit of the National Forest Service.
In recognition of the major investment made by Amazon in the development of Mount Rainier, the mountain has been renamed Mount Bezos.
The designs for the sub-spaceport are on display in the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, also proverbially known as the Bezos Balls. Booking is required: please call Amazon for a viewing slot.
Green rockets
The design for the sub-spaceport is revolutionary. For the first time, the rockets will be entirely electric.
(Originally, the plan was for hybrid rockets but new developments have made this step unnecessary. A demand by the American Coal Board to have the rocket powered by coal was rejected by Amazon.)
Rocket launches are limited by fuel. The need to carry the combustible fuel makes the rockets enormous. 95% or more of a rocket is taken up by the gigantic fuel tank. The bigger the rocket, the more fuel is needed to get it off the ground.
Various new developments are trying to solve this conundrum. The US company Green Launch is building a hybrid hydrogen impulse launcher, where the initial acceleration is provided by ultra-compressed hydrogen. This massively reduces the amount of fuel needed to be carried, and increases the payload from 1% to 10% of the mass of the rocket. It is not suitable for human flight because of the very high initial acceleration (20g) but this is not a problem for cargo.
Spinlaunch is doing something similar but using a giant catapult with even higher g-forces.
A Chinese company called Galactic Energy is developing an electromagnetic launcher using superconducting magnets. A similar system is also under development by the ALTA government department in Japan.
Experimental ALTA 40-m railgun (Japan) for hypersonic launches
All three systems are hybrids, where the electric engine provides a big initial boost, after which a traditional rocket system takes over to propel the satellite or cargo into space. It reduces the amount of rocket fuel but does not eliminate it.
If, however, the goal is not to get into orbit but to achieve sub-orbital flight, then the rocket fuel may be dispensed with. This is used in the Jeff B. Bezos sub-spaceport.
Railgun launches
The sub-spaceport will operate with exciting new technology. It uses an electromagnetic propulsion system, also known as a railgun, similar to that developed by Galactic Energy. This is the first commercial application of this technology.
The Amazon SubPrime package is enclosed in a winged metal container, and put on rails which carry a large electric current. The container is subjected to a strong magnetic field generated by superconducting magnets; the combination of the field and the current results in a force which rapidly accelerates the package. The system reaches speeds of 3 kilometers per second, sufficient for suborbital launches. Amazon has called the system VOLcano DElivery using Magnetic-driven Orbit-Rated Transport, or VOLDEMORTTM.
A VOLDEMORT launcher at the Jeff B. Bezos Sub-spaceport
Amazon packages can withstand accelerations of 300g, as has been proven in many deliveries: it is equivalent to the impact force on a heavy package being thrown over a fence.
The EM rail system will launch the packages an angle of 45 degrees for maximum reach. The wings are deployed during re-entry for steering. The on-board AI targets the exact GPS coordinates provided by the consumer, but can also aim for a nearby Amazon collection point if no suitable landing spot is available.
VOLDEMORTTM generates a lot of heat during launches. Cooling will be provided using the glaciers on Mount Bezos. The amount of ice on Mount Bezos is sufficient for 20 years of VOLDEMORTTM operation.
The VOLDEMORT system is described in a recent paper by I.R, McNab, Launch to subspace with an electromagnetic railgun. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 35 (1): 295–304. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1179826
Volcano designation
The fact that Mount Bezos is a listed volcano affected premiums for package delivery insurance. Amazon has appealed to USGS, and argued that no eruption has ever been observed, and that the indications for eruptions more than 2000 years ago lack eyewitness accounts and cannot be accepted as factual. USGS has accepted this appeal and therefore the mountain is no longer listed as a volcano, subject to a review in five years.
Some reluctance on the side of insurance companies to accept this decision was resolved when AAA bought a division from a lesser-known insurance company and rebranded it as Amazon SubPrime Insurance.
The five-year review of Mount Bezos as non-volcanic will involve evaluation of seismic monitoring data. Amazon argued that the US does not require monitoring of a mountain that isn’t a volcano but that argument was rejected by USGS. Because of the reclassification, seismic monitoring by the Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) ceased, as the mountain no longer falls under its remit.
AAA has contracted KVERT, the Russian Volcano Observatory for Kamchatka, to carry out remote monthly checks. They will also carry out the five-year review.
Power
The original plan was for VOLDEMORTTM to be powered entirely by the geothermal heat at the mountain. The reclassification of Mount Bezos as non-volcanic has reduced the amount of geothermal heat that may be extracted, as without volcanic activity this heat is no longer considered renewable.
The cooling of VOLDEMORTTM using the glaciers will lead to greatly increased run-off in the rivers, especially the Carbon River. This river will be used to supplement the energy requirement using hydropower.
In celebration of the opening of the unique, fully green Sub-spaceport, Amazon has renamed the Carbon River to Carbon-Free River.
Volcanocafe, 1 April 2025
The new SubPrime™ headquarters for the new ultra fast drone delivery service.
Postscript
Boeing has immediately announced that it has developed a similar launch system. It is called the Dreamlauncher Max, and is located on the remnants of Mount St Helens. Tests have so far not been successful
Other countries are known to have similar plans. China is building a sub-spaceport in Tibet, able to reach the entire Asian continent. Russia is doing the same, reaching all of Russia including Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic republics and Alaska, all of which the US has agreed to hand over to Russia in return for lifting all US sanctions.
Critics have dubbed these systems ‘WMDs’ or ‘Weapons of Mass Delivery’.
Postscript 2
Amazon has just announced that the forthcoming Amazon SubPrime subscription will also include movies played at double speed.
Amazon Subprime will not be available in Canada because of the re-entry tax.
unbelivable–Times are changing.
OT: Reykjanes peninsula: the show begins
IMO are saying dike propagation has started at Grindavik, and the DAS plot bears this out.
(and no not an April fool)
What a date to start the dike….(/eruption) in Grindavik
Brilliant….
volcanocafe with another major scoop, remarkable.
Well done Albert, who clearly has inside knowledge but staying anonymous to protect his sources.
I have to deny this. A team of Volcano Investigators whose names cannot be revealed unearthed this story. We explicitly deny receiving tip-offs from EM, BG or inadvertent leaks from people working for DJT.
Sundhnjukur intrusion started
We get this tonight, and Kilauea tomorrow, what a crazy couple days.
Hard to tell too much but it looks like another dike all the way to the northern tip of the ruft, and already before erupting. Its also probably going south now too… This could be the biggest curtain of fire out of all of them. So far Grindavik is not looking in the firing line but its always uncertain at this stage
Looks like its finding a new way up too with so many quakes its a new sheet thats forcing its way upwards rather than reusing old hot dyke pathways like the previous intrusions have done the last eruption was nearly asseismic
Hahaha Elon Musks new ”secret supervillian lair” its the perfect place for Musky to plan a total Sheev Palpatine world takeover I can almost hear he is laughning, Musky and Palpy strowling the underground tunnels for a secret discussion..
Mount Musk 🙂
And good ol grouch Palpatine… : D he woud serve Musk very well or perhaps Musk woud work very well under old grouch Palpatines advice
I read that the built up volcanic energy stored in the conducts will power the rockets using pfizzoelectric transfer!!
nice swarm gooing on… the fibre optics datafeed is wild
but will this be it, after all the waiting?
https://dataview.raspberryshake.org/#/AM/RBDCF/00/EHZ
Grindavik and Blue Lagoon are evacuated! Intensive swarm and magma movement. possible new eruption.
Albert you are amazing. 😂🤣😂
Will we in Reykjavik be eligible for SubPrime™? It is on the North American Plate after all…
Certainly. At the moment it is waiting for approval from Canada and Denmark to pass through their air space. However, a takeover of both nations is being planned by Amazon in order to bypass these requirements. Canada will be renamed Amazonia and Greenland will become Bezosland.
i’m so embarrased to be an american at the moment.
It is the Americans that make America. They haven’t changed. They normally do the right thing, after having tried everything else!
From IMO, 07.25 local = 8.25 BST
“An earthquake swarm began at around 6:30 AM this morning on the Sundhnúks Crater Row. The swarm is located between Sýlingarfell and Stóra-Skógfell, in a similar are as seen prior to previous eruptions.
“The earthquake swarm was followed by a clear change in deformation and pressure changes in boreholes operated by HS Orka. Both independent measurements were a clear sign of the onset of a magma intrusion.
“No magma has reached the surface as of now, but an eruption is likely to occur.”
Also Grindavik and the blue lagoon are being evacuated.
Won’t be long in guess.
PS – Good one, Albert. Happy April 1st
@Albert: you‘re so good with writing! Really enjoyed this one 🙂
Hello again. I would say this bears the signs of a much larger magma intrusion then we have seen before in Reykjanes.Most larger eq’s are still at ~3 km so we will have to see when something happens. If supply is as high as I fear it could rift open most of the craterrow.
I hope this fares well with the Island, and that everyone will be safe.
Looking at real time GPS movements, it looks like there are larger movements now than have been seen since the original intrusion on November 10th 2023.
The intrusion reaches under the entire fissure system that is on land, from under Grindavik all the way to northeast of Fagradalsfjall. The fact it hasnt started erupting yet might mean that more will stay underground out of the total but I feel like there is just way too much magma to stay there. The volume of magma erupted alone is much bigger than the intrusion in November 2023, even though that intrusion was the biggest single event. It would be very surprising if no eruption happens at all.
As expected did Donald Trump know that the eruption was going to start today and had a reason to start tariffs on April 2nd:
https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-04-01-kvikuhlaup-hafid-a-reykjanesskaga-grindavik-rymd-440260
https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-12-18-bein-streymi-fra-gosstodvum-399932
I can’t see the eruption yet, but IMO says “Dike propagation has started in the Sundhnúksgígar Crater Row” and https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/new-magma-instrusion-on-sundhnukur-crater-row
So here we have a mixture between an April joke and a serious – real – event.
Thorbjörn webcam shows a big steam plume, but uncertain whether the lava eruption is going to follow there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqudj0x0POA
Sylingar-Webcam has moved. So they expect the eruption to start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfcTBLvPiM
The new view is towards the southern part of the fissure, with view to the south coast.
I guess a whole 24 carat fully flushing golden toilet woud be the most Trump a thing ever 🙂 I almost wants to visit that Mar-a-Lago and find out if the man in question craps in a gold toilet or a pure platinum one hahaha he have no idea how funny he is! : D D : the way he moves, the way he walks, and the way he interacts with pepole and all his silly contacts… but pure golden bathrooms and toilets maybe much more of a thing for the kings of saudi arabia I guess .. that wants everything they own.. golden
I’d prefer the artificial volcano of Wörlitz. There a volcano addicted aristocrat built his private volcano: http://www.vulkanfaszination.de/Woerlitz%20Volcano/index.htm
But the aristocrats of late 18th century were probably more open for natural phenomena than the Mammon aristocrats who only seek $ and €.
Wow, really some quake action there. The map of 1h recent quakes look quite ‘global’ to me, with roughly two clusters, one of which is close to the town:
https://ibb.co/Y4ytdqkz
Oh, Kilauea has begun to erupt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5zz9Sjw3E
No explosion, before the lava came up. First some spattering, now a relatively stable lava pond. Not fast overflow as in episode 15. The lava pond grows slow, but hasn’t drain until now. So welcome to Episode 16!
Well, at least one spot showing some lava today. 😉
Chronology of Episode 16:
1. Spatter in the north vent just after 6:00 pm HST on Monday March 31. Magma is at high levels in the conduit indicating episode 16 will start soon. Episode 14 and 15 high fountain stages were preceded by 20 hours of cyclic eruptions.
2. Constant spattering began in the north vent around 6 pm HST on March 31. Tremor increased at 4 pm HST and continues to climb at 7:30 pm HST. Spattering also probably began at 4:30 pm HST but did rise and become visible until 5:20 pm HST.
3. Continuous dome fountaining and spattering 15-30 feet high continue in the north vent. Fountaining has filled the inner crater with lava and a lava pond became visible around 8:30 pm HST; rising just below the crater lip by 9:00 pm HST.
24h animation shows, how the eruption slowly began with little spattering around 6 PM, and around 7 PM the glow of the growing lava pond becomes visible:
The south vent has begun to glow too, its probably going to erupt properly tomorrow. But now that Sundhnjukur is erupting again and Grindavik might be in the firing line that might not be noticed so much this time unless it is really extremely high.
It started
(So this is then officially the Andersson episode, if the discoverer doesn’t object)
Depends. It looks a bit bad for Grindavik. Not sure I’d like my name associated with the destruction of the town.
Very close to the greenhouse, and the fissure crosses the berm. https://www.youtube.com/live/Bqudj0x0POA?si=0ys9XBPNBE2VC0Ld
Eruption iceland
And it is a go. Close to Grindavik. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faH3xrKyP_o
It is a very southern location wieh beautiful ocean view … and very close to Grindavik. If it opens more, then they get destruction there.
According to RUV:
“A Coast Guard helicopter will take off shortly to confirm the exact location and magnitude of the eruption”
They’ve expected during NowCast that the eruption would occur in this southern area: “Magma has reached the area where a volcanic eruption occurred by the dike north of Grindavík in January last year and possibly inside the dikes. The activity moves between the south and north ends of the intrusion, making it difficult to predict where an eruption could start. The southern end is monitored the most, as it is most subdued.”
https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-04-01-gos-hafid-sudaustur-af-thorbirni-440260
Oh dear…Grindavik. 🙁
Some smoking inside Grindavik….just beyond the glass house.
Oops. Wrong. Scrub that.
An impressive Blitz Lava flood … and the fissure opens towards N and S, looks like Mauna Loa’s Curtain of Fires in Mokuʻāweoweo.
Looking pretty small at the moment compared to the latest episodes, but just outside the berms near Grindavík. Feels a lot like the January 2024 event.
The fissure goes through the berm. Not optimal.
I assume that the eruption needs time to develop. Both the build-up before the eruption and the build-up of the eruption are slow, but in the end probably voluminous.
The next eruption started in Iceland! quite close to Grindavik and smaller than last time so perhaps will last longer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AM_pkqjbZ0Q&pp=ygUUaWNlbGFuZCB2b2xjYW5vIGxpdmU%3D
Impressive image with the glass house and the eruption behind:
https://myndir.ruv.is/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXByb2QtcnV2aXMtcHVibGljIiwgImtleSI6ICJtZWRpYS9wdWJsaWMvb3JpZ2luYWxfaW1hZ2VzL0lNR185NDQzLmpwZWciLCAiZWRpdHMiOiB7InRvRm9ybWF0IjogIndlYnAiLCAid2VicCI6IHsicXVhbGl0eSI6IDYwfSwgInJlc2l6ZSI6IHsid2lkdGgiOiAiMTYwMCIsICJmaXQiOiAiY292ZXIiLCAiaGVpZ2h0IjogIjkwMCJ9fX0=
Not very strong, its location is concerning but if it stays like this it might be manageable.
I remember watching Just Icelandic, and it was said that although Grindavik being destroyed would be emotional and a disaster, if Svartsengi was destroyed it would be a lot worse, given it would basically make that whole psrt of Iceland uninhabitable in the winter.
Still, its not the lava flood from hell I was expecting but its going the wrong direction…
The deformation and earthquake data suggests that magma went both north and south along the entire length of the dyke. That means a considerable volume of magma probably went into filling up the dyke, which might have reduced the size of the eruption. Still a bit too early to say anything about the eruption size though.
Poor Grindavik, and Grindavikings… Let’s hope the contours are favourable…
It just opened on the inside of the Grindavik brim. Not good.
Looking very bad for Grindavik, now.
Rift extending toward the town.
https://x.com/TradesNancy/status/1907007410125816099
I’d call this a pretty bad location… more info in the thread
The eruption location resembles the Januar 2024 eruption that also was close to Grindavik and the greenhouse:
https://myndir.ruv.is/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXByb2QtcnV2aXMtcHVibGljIiwgImtleSI6ICJtZWRpYS9wdWJsaWMvb3JpZ2luYWxfaW1hZ2VzL055clNpZ2RhbHVyMS5qcGciLCAiZWRpdHMiOiB7InJlc2l6ZSI6IHsid2lkdGgiOiAiODAwIiwgImZpdCI6ICJjb3ZlciJ9fX0=
The location today:
https://myndir.ruv.is/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXByb2QtcnV2aXMtcHVibGljIiwgImtleSI6ICJtZWRpYS9wdWJsaWMvb3JpZ2luYWxfaW1hZ2VzL2dvc3NwcnVuZ2EucG5nIiwgImVkaXRzIjogeyJ0b0Zvcm1hdCI6ICJ3ZWJwIiwgIndlYnAiOiB7InF1YWxpdHkiOiA2MH0sICJyZXNpemUiOiB7IndpZHRoIjogIjE2MDAiLCAiZml0IjogImNvdmVyIn19fQ==
Zoomed in and it looks like its possibly extending slowly inside the wall, but not in a way that there is a lot of pressure. There might still be other fissures to open further north yet, the eruption last January that looked like this one didnt intrude northwards, where this one is the southern tip of what might be the second biggest dike of this whole rifting event.
Also that most of the time on a relatively level surface the tip of a dike wont erupt, so its probably not going to actually erupt inside Grindavik. It seems more likely this will be small here, and erupt further inland, maybe in as much as a few days if pressure doesnt let up enough.
This fire curtain does not look as vigorous as previous ones.
Touch and go. Only the tip of the fissure is inside the protective berm, and this is likely to die the quickest. After that, the question is whether the berm can hold. Grindavik is beginning to look like the Gaul village of Asterix, surrounded but indomitable.
I noticed that Kilauea actually isnt doing the cyclical gas pistoning it did before fountaing last time, its just overflowing constantly, and only in one spot. It also seems to be getting stronger too, though still far from serious fountaining.
Seems like the vent isnt blocked but might not be open enough to allow drainback either.
While all of this at Grindavik is going on, the north vent at Kīlauea in Hawaii has overflowed, starting episode 16 about a few minutes ago.
(S2 Cam, live)
What a crazy time now.
New opening further to the city … ?
Yep!
A smaller fissure opened closer to town. This is all very much like the Jan 2024 event.
But with wayyyyyyyy more magma waiting down there to come up …
We’ll see how it develops … perhaps “envelops”.
Looks like that fortunately it is uphill to the town from there.
Maybe not.
Unfortunately, No. The town is about 1k downhill from the abandoned ?hydroponics works and the small fissure that has just opened to the south of it…
V similar to Jan 24, as others have said. More solid basalt > less prone to fissuring?
Locally there seems to be a small hill just between the new fissure and the town. Apparently the lava is running back to the north east, at least for now. This could considerably help if we assume that these outer fissures will die soon.
New fissure inside the berm, behind the greenhouse….
A new small fissure has opened up south of the greenhouse 🙁 Hopefully it doesn’t grow any further south.
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But I’ll be okay if it just eats a few, minor structures and the greenhouse.
A tad insensitive, perhaps. Think of the livelihoods dependent on the town. The harbour was initially dug out of the lava by hand at low tide…
If the rift does not zip open further north I fear this might be bad. There are still quite some eq-activity at depth. It seems it ends/stalls at old bedrock northwards for now. And no, the rift it no longer just inside the brim. You can actually see new areas smoking southwards before it zips. Not what we like to see.
Yes, it is still slowly but surely propagating southward 🙁
Quakes now pretty much concentrated on a spot far in the north west (south east of Vogar and the motorway to the airport). No idea what this means but I think that I remember eruptions where quake activity was quickly suspended after the eruption started.
Looking at the Fagridalur seismometer (FAD), the northern part of the swarm actually picked up a bit some 20 minutes after the eruption had started. Not sure what it means. Is magma still expanding in that direction, or is it the opposite, that the pressure was reduced by the opening of the eruption?
Thx.
Old lavas show that an eruption to the northeast of Stora Skogsfjell and in the slopes of the lava shield of Þráinsskjöldur is possible.
It looks like two parts of the rift are particularly dense with quakes, under Grindavik and north of Fagradalsfjall. There is a fissyre now near Grindavik but it seems likely if any more open it will be far to the north, and the fact the eruptiin is pretty weak still means its likely not all the magma is going there.
Smoking around the houses where the eruption ended in Grindavik now. I hope it zips somewhere to the north to relieve pressure, but it does not look very good now. Ruv has a very good cam on the live feed now.
Húsafell webcam (MBL) shows on the left hand the eruption and on the right hand the big steaming craters of previous eruptions that until now stay dormant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZSDvR6izpo
CAM A on afar TV panned to a shot showing the fissure IN the berm just North of the greenhouse 🙂 This explains why so much fresh lava before the greenhouse fissure’s eruptive material..
Has cut right through with a bridge shaped hole.
I don’t think so. The lava always stopped at the berms and got diverted. This time there is a fissure just below the berm, eating it up from below.
Nope. Fissure on both sides of berm and In it. Bridge shaped hole now substantially larger. Expect it to break soon.
I’m sort of impressed by how well the berm itself holds up when it’s right on top of an erupting fissure.
Fortunately for Grindavik the volume of the southern fissure there is not big, it looks more like strombolian spattering. The most volume comes up on the northern parts of the lava fountain fissure.
It really does look weak along the entire length of the rift, and yet the seismicity seems to be ongoing. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were an outbreak elsewhere as well.
Curious about the ongoing seismic events, even strengthening at the moment, either the dyke cannot sustain the pressure (yet), or are we just seeing a start of a long-term and maybe even bigger event?
Fantastic: worker frantically dismounting apparatus while lava is 10m away:
https://www.youtube.com/live/faH3xrKyP_o
I think that answers the question where GPS station ORFC was placed.
That was interesting.
Mac
Camera has zoomed into steam on one of the town roads. I guess that’s heated groundwater due to the dyke, as opposed to an actual rising lava source.
RUV reports a hot water pipe has burst in Grindavik due to the earthquakes
RÚV are reporting concerns that the eruption will become explosive if magma reaches groundwater; also concerns about eruption within the town if magma flows into the fissures under it. Grim prospects.
Latest IMO update states that GPS measurements indicate that magma is still moving north, so the seismicity we see is indeed the dyke still expanding. The eruption has almost crawled to a halt now, so most of the magma currently goes into expanding the dyke rather than erupting. Maybe we will get another fissure to the north, or maybe this will turn out to be just a very large magma intrusion with a small leak to the surface.
I should add that there is also quake activity that extends to the south, under, and beyond, Grindavik. So, even though the most intense quake activity is at the northern tip of the dyke, a new fissure further south should probably not be ruled out.
Wow what a day! Woke up to see Kilauea and Reykjanes both flowing.
Also regarding the new Amazon SubPrime package delivery, they need to seriously take advantage of the heat such a delivery method can generate and find a way to deliver my Amazon grocery purchases so that they arrive in the form of fully cooked meals.
Better you moves to a Super Earth musk colony later 🙂 volcanic eruptions must be a common sight on a Super Earth.. Imagine how much volcanism there must be on a Super Earth type exoplanet.
More mass resulsts in slower cooling and more radioactive elements and a bigger planetary volume that simply retains more heat..
in our solar system Earth is the largest rocky planet but there are much bigger rocky worlds in other star systems.. we dont know how is a Super Earth like? : D The bigger a planet is the more internal heat and radioactive elements it will carry. I hopes for warp space travel so we can do a geological expedition to an alien Super Earth! I Imagines.. unstable seething landscapes full of geothermal pools and smoking volcanoes as a result of the immense heat trapped within couple of earth masses and more… 🙂