Iceland volcano erupts as spewing lava will increase fears of ‘worst case’

A volcanic eruption has began on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, sending lava spewing some 150 metres into the air because the “worst case scenario” performs out.

The eruption follows over 230 earthquakes prior to now few weeks and a “seismic swarm” of greater than 1,000 earthquakes in 24 hours on November 9. The Icelandic Met Office warned on Monday evening: “Eruption has started.”

MBL.is states that the eruption is round a confined space north of Grindavík, a fishing city on the Southern Peninsula of Iceland.

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A robust earthquake swarm started on the Reykjanes peninsula round 9pm this night (December 18), and is centred on the Sundhnjúka crater close to Hagafell.

Porvald Pórðarson, a volcanologist, informed MBL that the “worst-case scenario” is presently feared.

He mentioned: “This is the worst place, it looks like it. West of the pasture and up there, and then probably up through the Sundhnúkar crater row, which are just north of it. There are super-high plumes of magma. Now it’s a total guess, but the highest plumes are probably 150 metres.”

“This means that the lava is flowing very quickly from the crater,” he mentioned, including, “This may be close to the worst case imaginable. Unfortunately.”

Icelandic Police mentioned: “An eruption has begun. We ask people not to be in front of the responders and not to go in the direction of the eruption. It is important that roads and other things are as accessible as possible.”

Fannar Jónasson, mayor of Grindavík, mentioned tonight in an interview with Vísi, mentioned “it’s going to be a long night”.

“I’m just, like others, trying to get information. But this seems like quite a big explosion explosion in the early stages. But we don’t know everything yet. It’s going to be a long night,” he mentioned.

Last month Grindavík was completely evacuated after over 1,000 earthquakes in a day.

As for tonight’s eruption, The Volcanoes and Natural Hazards Group of Southland have mentioned it’s highly effective, the magma jets are very excessive and it has been lengthening quickly for the previous half hour.

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