Grindavik: Pink lava bubbles and erupts from a volcano in Iceland for a month, emptying a large crater, the second eruption since volcanic activity in the region reawakened in March 2021.
“It’s happening at a steady pace and we don’t see any real signs that it’s going to end anytime soon,” Benedikt Ofeigsson, a geophysicist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), told AFP.
On March 16, Sundhnukagigar lava erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland and has been flowing ever since.
According to the HPG, the volcano spewed 3.6 cubic meters of lava per second during its last measurement on April 9.
Other explosions in the same area in December, January and February could trigger further bombings in the nearby town of Grindavik before the evacuation of 4,000 residents in November.
Magma flows from a depth of at least 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) beneath the Earth’s upper crust.
This scenario is similar to the first eruption near Fagradalsfjall in March 2021, which lasted for six months.
In contrast, other shootings in recent months have been going on for several days.
In addition, the geothermal plant near Swartsengy, which supplies electricity and water to 30,000 people on the peninsula, is called inflation.
Ofeigsson said the inflation “indicates that not all of the magma inside has the ability to travel directly to the surface and that some of it is trapped in the Swartsen magma reservoir.”
Volcanologists now believe that a new era of seismic activity has begun in the region.
