GRINDAVIK (AFP) – Orange lava bubbles and pops, occasionally spewing large fountains from a volcano that has been erupting for a month in Iceland, the second-longest eruption since the region’s volcanic activity reawakened in March 2021.
“It’s continuing at a pretty stable rate at the moment and we don’t see any real signs that it will end in the near future,” geophysicist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) Benedikt Ofeigsson told AFP. On March 16, lava burst out of a crack in the ground at Sundhnukagigar, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, and has flowed ever since.
The volcano was pumping out some 3.6 cubic metres of lava per second in the most recent measurements taken on April 9, according to the IMO.
