The second volcanic eruption in just a few weeks has begun in Iceland. On Sunday morning, live footage from Icelandic radio station RÚV showed glowing red lava flowing from a long fissure in the earth on the Reykjanes Peninsula southwest of Reykjavik for the first time since mid-December.
A few hours before the eruption, Iceland’s weather authority Vedurstofa had recorded another intense series of earthquakes with more than 200 tremors. The initially most violent of these had a magnitude of 3.5 in the morning. The agency warned that magma was moving beneath the Earth’s surface and that the chance of an eruption was high.
The last time an eruption occurred in the area was in the late evening of December 18, when lava initially bubbled from a mile-long fissure in the earth. However, the eruption, the fourth on the peninsula in three years, decreased significantly in intensity within a few days. Even before Christmas, lava was no longer visible on the Earth’s surface.
Grindavik was evacuated again
Only on Saturday did authorities order the town of Grindavik on the Reykjanes Peninsula to be evacuated again. This is evident from a statement from the Civil Defense Authority based on a risk assessment by the National Meteorological Office. All people must leave the community by Monday evening, from then on it is forbidden to stay there, it was said.
The place is still classified as dangerous after the November earthquakes and there is also an increased risk of eruptions. Earthquakes have caused extensive damage in Grindavik, including deep cracks in the roads
Source: Krone
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