Vigorous basaltic gas-rich lava spattering (image: Eldfjalla-og náttúruvárhópur Suðurlands)
The effusive activity continues with little changes over the past 24 hours.
Several fissure vents have been reduced to three vents since the eruption began, but continue at a higher intensity in each vent.
Pulsating lava fountains shoot a glowing plastic material up to 100 meters height that continues to feed the lava into a 1 km long stream toward the east of the crater (watch a video below).
A volcano-tectonic earthquake with magnitude M 4.1 occurred at 11:52 local time today on the Reykjanes Peninsula, west of Lake Kleifarvatn (5.6 km north-northeast of Krýsuvík, at 5.2 km depth).