Icelandic volcanologist Þorvaldur Þórðarson has indicated that the volcanic activity on the Reykjanesskaga peninsula is likely slowing down after a five-year period of eruptions. According to him, there is a fifty-fifty chance that the eruption period has come to a close, suggesting that the area may be moving into a new phase with decades possibly passing before another eruption occurs. Since the beginning of the eruptions in Geldingadalur near Fagradalsfjall, which marked the start of a new eruption cycle after nearly 800 years of dormancy, there have been a total of twelve eruptions over the past five years.