2024-01-14 09:06:16
The second volcanic eruption in just a few weeks has begun in Iceland. On Sunday morning, live footage from the Icelandic radio station RÚV showed glowing red lava gushing out of 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, the Icelandic weather authority Vedurstofa recorded a new, 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 the likelihood of an eruption was high.
The last time an eruption occurred in the area was in the late evening of December 18th, when lava initially bubbled out of a fissure in the earth several kilometers long. However, the eruption, which was the fourth on the peninsula in three years, significantly decreased in intensity within a few days. Even before Christmas, lava was no longer visible on the earth’s surface.
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