A red alert has been issued for the area near the volcano, which has also experienced hundreds of small earthquakes.
The geology of Iceland never ceases to amaze, particularly with recent developments around the Sundhnúkur crater row. In an area known for its dynamic volcanic activity, new magma intrusion signals a ...
Tuesday's eruption also caused the evacuation of the Blue Lagoon spa, one of the country's top tourist destinations.
LONDON (AP) — A volcano began erupting in southwestern Iceland on Tuesday, just hours after authorities evacuated a nearby ...
Magma moves through Hawaiian rift zones as dikes, which are tabular sheets of magma that move laterally and vertically ...
Iceland’s Met Office says a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of the country, hours after a nearby town and a ...
Icelandic authorities began the evacuations on Tuesday morning after magma flows and a series of small earthquakes in the region indicated that the volcano would soon erupt. People living in some ...
The magma flow began at about 6:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT) accompanied by an intense earthquake storm similar to previous eruptions, the Icelandic Met Office said. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.
Authorities in Iceland were forced by a new volcanic eruption to evacuate dozens of homes and shut down the hugely popular Blue Lagoon tourist attraction.