May 14, 2021 05:11 PM EDT
You could possibly own a chunk of Iceland s newest erupting volcano at Fagradalsfjall, without being able to pronounce its name or site.
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Potential Buyers Makes Offer
The region of the eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula west of the capital Reykjavik is on a privately owned land, owned by landowners association of around 20 people, according to Iceland media reports. Sigurður Guðjón Gíslason, the association chairman told Visir the group has gotten inquiries from real estate brokers and other parties interested with a little number of offers already on the table. Presently, this should be the hottest land in the country, he quipped, also saying the group is prepared to sell for the appropriate price. The eruption started in March and has persisted for weeks, at times sending noticeable fountains of lava into the sky over the widely empty landscape.
Intensity of Eruption Increases
The lava discharge by Fagradalsfjall mountain, Southwest Iceland, has increased considerably during the past week,
mbl.is reports. The eruption is now twice as powerful as it has been in the past. This was reported by the University of Iceland Institute of Earth Sciences. The discharge rate is now 12.9 m3 per second, and the volume of the lava has reached 30.7 million m3, while the lava covers and area of 1.8 km2.
The increased discharge has been accompanied by increasingly high magma fountains and an increasing lava flow in Meradalir valleys. For the past two weeks, there have been signs of an increase, which these measurements now confirm.
Potential Area of Eruption Larger than Before Fagradalsfjall mountain. Photo/Skúli Halldórsson Vala Hafstað Morgunblaðið . He believes that area to include Fagradalsfjall and vicinity, not the area south of the mountain. According to Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, tectonics specialist at the Icelandic Met Office, the magma dyke may have reached a hindrance or constriction under the Nátthagi area, south of Fagradalsfjall. Constant expansion is being registered in the area, and magma continues to flow into the dyke. Benedikt deduces this from the latest satellite picture, analyzed yesterday. Geophysicist Freysteinn Sigmundsson. mbl.is/Kristinn Magnússon The comparison of satellite pictures taken in the past weeks shows tectonic divergence on both sides of the magma dyke, which has formed between the mountains Keilir and Fagradalsfjall, amounting to up to 10 cm on each side, Freysteinn tells