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.

The Police think they have found the body of the missing tourist that they have been searching for since Wednesday evening.

The police in Reykjavík is calling after a continued custody over the man who is the alleged suspect of having murdered a man in an apartment building in Barðavogur in Reykjavík on the 4th of June this year.

Soon people will see a sign til mark the new Kiev-square, which is at the corner of Garðastræti and Túngata in downtown Reykjavík.

An Airbus-plane on its way from Frankfurt in Germany to Seattle in the United States, was turned around to Keflavík Airport because of a bomb threat.

Almost a quarter of Reykhólar harbor by the kelp mill Thorverk caved in and fell into the sea after The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration (IRCA) had been working around the harbor, but the plan was to make the harbor bigger and reinforce...