Lava seemed to be flowing quickly in the direction of north of the city GrindavÃokay, simply because it did throughout the eruption on February 8, RÃV stated citing the Icelandic Met Workplace.
RUV later reported that lava was additionally flowing towards the GrindavÃkurvegur street â the primary street resulting in Grindavik.
“The fissure is about three kilometers lengthy [about 1.9 miles], and runs from Stóra-Skógfell in the direction of Hagafell,” it stated.
Iceland’s major worldwide airport, Keflavik Airport, and different regional airports stay absolutely operational, RUV added.
Nevertheless, volcanic fuel is predicted to be detectable within the city close to the airport on Sunday, RUV reported.
Fountains of lava from Icelandic volcano draw onlookers
The present eruption is essentially the most highly effective within the current sequence of seismic exercise, geophysicist Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson informed RUV after getting back from a helicopter flight over the positioning.
Guðmundsson stated the fissure, which could be very lively now, extends from the northern facet of Hagafell and north to Stóra-Skógfell.
He estimated it was about 3.5 kilometers huge.
“Primarily based on the velocity of the lava move,” Guðmundsson estimated that “it is not going to be lengthy earlier than it flows over GrindavÃkurvegur street.”
Geophysicist Páll Einarsson informed RÃV that the earthquakes at GrindavÃokay clearly observe the identical sample as they’ve since October, with repeated magma flows that generally attain the floor.
The sooner eruptions “had been robust, lasted a short while, however had been highly effective whereas they lasted,” Einarsson added.
Slightly below an hour’s drive from Iceland’s capital and largest metropolis Reykjavik, the Blue Lagoon is without doubt one of the nation’s hottest vacationer sights.
The positioning is a part of southwest Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula â a thick finger of land pointing west into the North Atlantic Ocean from Reykjavik.
In addition to the Blue Lagoon, the peninsula is house to Iceland’s major airport, Keflavik Worldwide.
Iceland is without doubt one of the most lively volcanic areas on the planet.
Moderately than having a central volcano, the Reykjanes Peninsula is dominated by a rift valley, with lava fields and cones.
In November, it was closed for per week after 1,400 earthquakes had been measured in 24 hours.
