Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula is experiencing its fourth volcanic eruption since December. And this time, the impact is expected to be more widespread. The latest eruption broke out on Saturday between southwest Iceland’s Mt. Hagafell and Mt. Stóra Skógfell, quickly producing a nearly 2-mile-long fissure and spewing lava. The small local town of Grindavik was once … Read more
Lava spewed Saturday from a new volcanic fissure on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December, authorities said. A “volcanic eruption has started between stora Skogfell and Hagafell on the Reykjanes Peninsula,” said a statement from the Icelandic Met Office. Live video images showed glowing lava and billowing smoke. Iceland’s … Read more
A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland for the second time in less than a month, sending semi-molten rock spewing toward a nearby settlement. The eruption just before 8 a.m. Sunday came after a swarm of earthquakes near the town of Grindavik, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The community was evacuated overnight, Iceland’s RUV television … Read more
A pilot in Iceland wanted to see the ongoing eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula. He took to the air – and discovered a stranded traveler using a flashlight in the “pitch dark” to signal for help just miles from where lava had surfaced. Ernir Snaer Bjarnason told Reuters that he and his … Read more
Icelandic authorities are warning tourists to “think four times” before they attempt to make a “challenging” trek to the site of a volcanic eruption after its coast guard rescued an exhausted hiker by helicopter on Tuesday, The Guardian reported. Just hours after Monday night’s eruption in Grinkdavík, tourists flocked to the southwestern town to catch … Read more
After experiencing 700 earthquakes on Tuesday, Iceland meteorologists said on Wednesday morning the country has experienced another 800 since midnight. The quakes came after researchers detected sulfur dioxide, a gas that indicates magma is near the ground surface. Most of the earthquakes that struck early Wednesday were in the middle of a magma dyke at a depth … Read more
Iceland’s meteorological office says that the likelihood of a volcanic eruption “remains high” after hundreds of earthquakes were recorded overnight. According to the office’s last update just before 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday, there were more than 700 earthquakes recorded since midnight, mostly along the location where magma is collecting below ground. The largest earthquake … Read more
Officials in Iceland are preparing for a possible volcanic eruption in the wake of hundreds of earthquakes that forced a coastal town along the island nation’s southern peninsula to evacuate and prompted a state of emergency. There is a “significant likelihood” that an eruption will happen in the coming days, the Icelandic Meteorological Office warns. A spike … Read more
Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland left their homes Saturday after increasing concern about a potential volcanic eruption caused civil defense authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region. Police decided to evacuate Grindavik after recent seismic activity in the area moved south toward the town, and monitoring indicated that a … Read more
A long-dormant “supervolcano” in southern Italy is inching closer to a possible eruption — nearly six centuries after it last erupted, according to European researchers. The Campi Flegrei volcano, which is located near the city of Naples, has become weaker over time and as a result is more prone to rupturing, according to a peer-reviewed study conducted … Read more