The Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland noticed yet one more volcanic eruption on Thursday, its third since December.
Live video pictures confirmed glowing lava oozing out of a fissure illuminating a plume of smoke rising up underneath the evening sky.
“At 5:30 this morning intense small earthquake activity began northeast of Sylingarfell. About 30 minutes later, an eruption began in the same area,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) stated in an announcement.
IMO added that primarily based on an preliminary evaluation from a flyover by the Coast Guard, the fissure was about 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) lengthy.
It occurred in the identical space as two earlier eruptions – the primary on Dec. 18 and the second on Jan. 14 – close to the fishing village Grindavik, which had been evacuated.
Iceland is residence to over 30 energetic volcano methods, the very best quantity in Europe.
It straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a crack within the ocean ground separating the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.
Until March 2021, the Reykjanes peninsula had not skilled an eruption for eight centuries.
Fresh eruptions occurred in August 2022, and July and December 2023, main volcanologists to say it was in all probability the beginning of a brand new period of exercise within the area.
Source: www.dailysabah.com