Saturday, March 20, 2021

Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall erupts, lighting up sky near Reykjavik | Al Jazeera

Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall erupts, lighting up sky near Reykjavik

A volcano erupted just 40km (25 miles) from Iceland’s capital Reykjavik on Friday, with red lava spewing out of the ground and a crimson glow lighting up the night sky.
Streams of red lava could be seen flowing out of a fissure in the ground in Geldingadalur, close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland, in footage filmed by a coastguard helicopter.

While Iceland’s Keflavik International Airport and the small fishing port of Grindavik are just a few kilometres away, the area is uninhabited and the eruption was not expected to present any danger.

“The eruption began at Fagradalsfjall in Geldingadalur at about 20:45 GMT tonight. The eruption is considered a small one and the eruption fissure is about 500-700 metres (1,640-2,300 feet) long. The lava is less than 1 square kilometre (0.4 square miles) in size,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), which monitors seismic activity, said in a statement.

“There is little eruption activity in the area.”

The eruption site is in a valley, about 4.7km inland from the southern coast of the peninsula....

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  • Una inminente erupción volcánica desvela a los islandeses

     

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      Dem Meteorologischen Dienst zufolge riss die Oberfläche des "Schöntalberges", wie sich der Name des Vulkans wohl in Deutsche übersetzen ließe, auf einer Länge von 500 Metern auf und kleine Lavafontänen spritzten in die Höhe.

    •  Ein Hubschrauber der Küstenwache wurde losgeschickt, um Ausmaß und Folgen des Vulkanausbruchs aus der Luft besser einschätzen zu können.

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