Grilled Cheese

ExploreLog inSign up
Terms of UsePrivacy PolicyCommunity StandardsHelpGet the app

Grilled Cheese is a product of Village Compute

Version devBuilt at: 2026-10-11 02:37:10 EDT

Explore

PostsPeople
LatestRanked
@gongudottir.wsocial.euSep 27, 2026, 5:36 AM

🇮🇸 🌋 #Torfajökull 🟩

Good morning, dear ones 👋 🤗 🥰

Wishing you a wonderful late-summer Sunday in the golden October 🍁🍂

In Iceland’s largest geothermal area, there was a small swarm earthquake, but it’s not really volcanic – though you only find such beautiful areas at volcanoes. 😍

1/2

Short Description
The Torfajökull volcanic system has been moderately active in the Holocene, with the last eruption occurring in 1477 CE. It is located in the Eastern Volcanic Zone where rifting propagates into previously unrifted crust.


The system consists of central volcano and a NE-SW trending fissure swarm, and is about 40 km long and 30 km wide. A resurgent caldera, 18x12 km, lies within the central volcano. It hosts Iceland’s largest geothermal area of about 150 km2. Rhyolite rocks are predominant in the central volcano but basalt on the fissure swarm.


During the Holocene volcanic eruptions have been triggered by dyke intrusions from adjacent volcanic systems. At least 12 eruptions have occurred in the last 9000 years. Fissure eruptions propagating SW from Bárðarbunga volcanic system have repeatedly intruded the magma chamber below the Torfajökull caldera, resulting in eruptions of hybrid rhyolite/tholeiite lavas and tephra. Four of these eruptions started with a plinian phase.
@volcano.linkSep 26, 2026, 2:50 PM

#Quakes at #volcanoes past 24h: #Balut, #Bardarbunga, #Campi Flegrei (Phlegrean Fields), #Churchill, #Clear Lake, #Coso
#Eldey, #Flores, #Kanlaon, #Kilauea, #La Palma, #Langjökull, #Ngauruhoe, #Novarupta, #Okmok, #Prestahnukur, #Te Kawa, #Tecuamburro, #Tjörnes Fracture Zone, #Torfajökull

@volcano.linkSep 20, 2026, 2:50 PM

#Quakes at #volcanoes past 24h: #Alaska Peninsula Arc at 155.4°W, #Balut, #Clear Lake, #Coso, #Denison, #El Chichón
#Flores, #Hekla, #Hrómundartindur, #Irazu, #Kilauea, #Kverkfjöll, #Loihi, #Mayon, #Methana, #Prestahnukur, #Ruapehu, #Salton Buttes, #Svartsengi, #Tenerife, #Tenorio, #Torfajökull