{"id":3619,"date":"2025-10-08T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:02:19","slug":"changes-at-hveradalir-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/08\/changes-at-hveradalir-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes at Hveradalir, Iceland."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Passing along an online report on changes at the Hveradalir geothermal area in Iceland that were posted at Iceland Monitor<\/a> site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Increased visible steam has been observed along the national highway through Hveradalir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geophysicist Ari Trausti Gu\u00f0mundsson says that steam vents often form at relatively shallow depths in areas of geothermal activity and near hot springs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe best example is in Hverahl\u00ed\u00f0, south of the road leading up to Hellishei\u00f0i, where drilling was carried out for the Hellishei\u00f0i Power Plant. Suddenly, steam began rising from the hillside somewhat farther east,\u201d he says.<\/p>\nPhotos: Steam rising from the ground near the Ring Road<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Back in August 2024 there was a landslide in the same area that exposed some buried features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The landslide that took down material from the southeast side of Sk\u00ed\u00f0ask\u00e1linn in Hveradalir in mid-July has probably broken the top layer of the soil above a steaming hot spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is most likely that the combination of steam activity and high precipitation caused the landslide to occur at this time.<\/p>\nPhotos: The landslide appears to have exposed a steam geyser<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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The main thermal area has a walkway and is easily accessible from the highway. We stopped in there when we visited in 2023. I remember a report from back then about steam appearing along the highway, visible in a traffic webcam view, but can't find that report now. So this activity may not be that new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passing along an online report on changes at the Hveradalir geothermal area in Iceland that were posted at Iceland Monitor site. Increased visible steam has been observed along the national highway through Hveradalir. Geophysicist Ari Trausti Gu\u00f0mundsson says that steam vents often form at relatively shallow depths in areas of geothermal activity and near hot … Continue reading \"Changes at Hveradalir, Iceland.\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131,72,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}