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A volcano in Iceland that erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December was nonetheless spewing smoke and brilliant orange lava into the air on Monday, though infrastructure and a close-by fishing city are secure for now, authorities mentioned.
Magma had been accumulating underground on the Reykjanes peninsula close to Iceland’s capital Reykjavik for the reason that final eruption in February, prompting authorities to warn of an imminent eruption.
The warning time late on Saturday was solely quarter-hour earlier than fountains of molten rock started hovering from a 3km-long (1.9 mile) fissure, roughly the identical dimension and on the identical place because the earlier eruption.
Round midday on Monday, lava flows had subsided in one of many three areas that had been energetic yesterday, the Icelandic Meteorological Workplace mentioned in an announcement.
The lava movement that crossed Grindavikurvegur, the highway to Grindavik in Iceland, on Sunday 17 March
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Man-made obstacles have been profitable in steering the lava away from infrastructure, together with the Svartsengi geothermal energy plant and Grindavik, a fishing city of some 4,000 residents.
Footage from public broadcaster RUV confirmed lava flowing a number of hundred metres from the city, which was evacuated throughout an eruption in November and once more throughout one other one in February.
An aerial view of the volcanic eruption close to the city of Grindavik
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“The defences at Grindavik proved their worth … they’ve guided the lava movement within the supposed route,” native utility firm HS Orka mentioned, including that infrastructure working to the Svartsengi energy plant was intact.
Over the weekend, lava flowed over one of many three roads going into Grindavik, and on Monday, it inched south in direction of one other highway into the city.
The energetic vents on the eruptive fissure in Iceland, pictured on Sunday
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The lava appeared unlikely to achieve the ocean, the Iceland Meteorological Workplace mentioned. Robust winds carried hazardous gases from the volcano in direction of the northwest, however these had been unlikely to achieve Reykjavik, it added.
Reykjavik’s Keflavik airport mentioned it remained totally operational.
The eruption was the seventh on the Reykjanes peninsula since 2021, when geological techniques that had lain dormant for round 800 years once more grew to become energetic.
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