Actually it looks like Bardarbunga is where the swarm is occuring
Posted by JAC on 4/18/2010, 8:02 pm




http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1703-03=&volpage=erupt

Bárarbunga is an Icelandic stratovolcano located under the ice cap of Vatnajökull  glacier, rising to 2,009 m (6,591 feet) above sea level, making it the second highest mountain in Iceland, just about 110 m lower than Hvannadalshnjúkur.

The large central volcano of Bárdarbunga lies beneath the NW part of the Vatnajökull icecap, NW of Grímsvötn volcano, and contains a subglacial 700-m-deep caldera.

Related fissure systems include the Veidivötn and Trollagigar fissures, which extend about 100 km SW to near Torfajökull volcano and 50 km NE to near Askja volcano, respectively.

Voluminous fissure eruptions, including one at Thjorsarhraun, which produced the largest known Holocene lava flow on Earth with a volume of more than 21 cu km, have occurred throughout the Holocene into historical time from the Veidivötn fissure system.

The last major eruption of Veidivötn, in 1477, also produced a large tephra deposit.

The subglacial Loki-Fögrufjöll volcanic system located SW of Bárdarbunga volcano is also part of the Bárdarbunga volcanic system and contains two subglacial ridges extending from the largely subglacial Hamarinn central volcano; the Loki ridge trends to the NE and the Fögrufjöll ridge to the SW.

Jökulhlaups (glacier-outburst floods) from eruptions at Bárdarbunga potentially affect drainages in all directions.
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