Also In Iceland, Thousand Evacuated as Volcano Erupts After Weeks of Intense Activity
A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of South-West Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity.
About 4,000 people were earlier evacuated from the fishing town of grind Avik and the nearby blue lagoon geothermal spa was closed.
The met office said that the eruption was located about 4 kilometers, north-east of grind Avik and the seismic activity was moving towards the town.
The length of the crack in the volcano is about 3.5 kilometers, with the lava flowing at a rate of around 100 to 200 cubic meters per second.
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Police said they had raised their alert level and the country’s civil defence authorities warned the public not to approach the area and for tourists to stay away while emergency personnel assessed the situation.
This is not a tourist attraction and you must watch it from a great distance,”Vidir Reynisson, head of Iceland’s Civil Protection and Emergency Management, told RUV.
We now wait to see what the forces of nature have in store,” Iceland’s President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson wrote on X, saying that “protecting lives and infrastructure” are the main priority for officials. “Civil Defence has closed off the affected area … We are prepared and remain vigilant.
