TOPSHOT – A freshly created defence wall is witnessed about the landmark thermal sea drinking water bathtub, the Blue Lagoon with the energy plant Svartsengi behind it in close proximity to Grindavik, on December 21, 2023, top still left is the lava mattress from the newest eruption earlier mentioned the evacuated town in western Iceland. Icelandic authorities are in close proximity to to finnish building protecting walls around the geothermal electricity plant in the country’s southwest to shield it from lava flows, as officials hope to guard the Svartsengi plant. A volcanic eruption commenced on Monday evening in Iceland, south of the capital Reykjavik, next an earthquake swarm, Iceland’s Meteorological Business office documented. (Picture by Halldor KOLBEINS / AFP) (Photograph by HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP by means of Getty Photographs)
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A volcano in southwest Iceland erupted on Sunday, the country’s meteorological business office claimed, making it the fifth eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula since 2021.
A coast guard helicopter has been despatched to assess the circumstance and the correct spot, the Civil Security agency stated.
The eruption commenced north of the fishing city of Grindavik but it was even now not clear exactly exactly where the lava was emerging from or in which course it was flowing, reported broadcaster RUV.
The past eruption on the peninsula started out in the Svartsengi volcanic method on Dec. 18 subsequent the entire evacuation of the town of Grindavik’s 4,000 inhabitants and the closing of the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, a common vacationer spot.
Grindavik was ultimately spared as the lava flowed in a diverse way from the city.
Lying among the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, two of the major on the planet, Iceland is a seismic and volcanic very hot spot as the two plates go in reverse instructions.