In the southwest of the country, the eruption started after significant seismic activity, a village has since been evacuated.
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Eight centuries since the peninsula had experienced an eruption, before undergoing six, these last eight months. In the peninsula of Reykjanes in southwest Iceland, uA volcano erupted on the evening of Thursday, August 22, reported the Icelandic Meteorological Office. The IMO also noted that the eruption was preceded by a series of earthquakes and that seismic activity remained “considerable“, along the crack of more than four kilometers.
Speaking to an Icelandic news website, the head of police in the Sudurnes region, Ulfar Ludviksson, said that the evacuation of a nearby village, Grindavik, was underway. The 4,000 residents of this municipality had already been evacuated last November.
Until March 2021, the peninsula of Reykjanes had never experienced a volcanic eruption, but since then it has suffered no fewer than six, including the last one, at the end of May, which lasted more than three weeks. Iceland has 33 active volcanic systems, more than any other European country.
