In Iceland’s Grindavik, after another eruption of the Reykjanes volcano, lava blocked the road to the entrance to the city.
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Lava from the volcano, which began erupting in May, blocked the road leading out of the evacuated city. The Icelandic Meteorological Office said it was the third time lava had flowed along the road since a series of eruptions began in late 2023.
The lava continues to move northwest, but very slowly, the IMO said. They warned that lava was accumulating southeast of the volcano and could move in that direction in the coming days.
Note that this is the fifth eruption of Reykjanes in the last six months.
Iceland, located above a volcanic hotspot in the North Atlantic, experiences an average of one eruption every four to five years. The most destructive eruption in recent memory was the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010, which released clouds of ash into the atmosphere and disrupted transatlantic air travel on the moon.
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