The eruption at Holuhraun, just to the north-east of and part of the Bárðarbunga volcanic system in Iceland, has been ongoing since 29 August this year. I wrote a couple of posts about it, here (its start) and here (its early days), but I haven’t written an update for a while.

The fissure eruption has continued unabated now for 85 days. The most recent figures I can find are for 17 November (four days ago), and then the lavafield covered an area of 73 km² and had a volume of more than 1 km³. This makes it the largest eruption in Iceland since the Laki eruption of 1783, when an estimated 14 km³ of basalt lava was erupted.

The Holuhraun lavafield (outlined) with the ongoing eruption. Source: University of Iceland Twitter account.

There is no sign in decrease in activity, and the subsidence at the Bárðarbunga caldera is continuing as well.

This beautiful video was taken a week or so ago:

The eruption is demonstrating to us nicely the early stages in the life of a new shield volcano. So exciting!

The wonderful website VolcanoCafé has great updates on the eruption, as well as a page dedicated to all the useful web links to data, webcams etc.