Name: New volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula: weather office
Uploaded: 2024-05-29T11:10:50-04:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: A new volcanic eruption began on Wednesday on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, the country’s meteorological office said, shortly after authorities evacuated the nearby town of Grindavik. “An eruption has started near Sundhnuksgigar, north of Grindavik,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said in a statement, almost three weeks after the end of a previous […]

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New volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula: weather office

A new volcanic eruption began on Wednesday on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, the country’s meteorological office said, shortly after authorities evacuated the nearby town of Grindavik. “An eruption has started near Sundhnuksgigar, north of Grindavik,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said in a statement, almost three weeks after the end of a previous […]

Volcano erupts on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula weeks after town evacuated

A volcano dramatically erupted in Iceland on Monday, with spectacular bursts of lava and smoke illuminating the night sky after weeks of seismic activity prompted the evacuation of a nearby town. The eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula began at around 10 p.m. local time, following an earthquake around an hour earlier, the Icelandic Meteorological Office […]