HINDUSTAN TIMES
Iceland volcano updates: The volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month near the fishing town of Grindavik.
Iceland’s president said that the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature” after lava from a volcano consumed houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik as scientists said that the eruption appeared to be dying down. As experts declared that the danger is over, Iceland president Gudni Th. Johannesson said that “a daunting period of upheaval has begun on the Reykjanes peninsula”. A long-dormant volcanic system has awakened, he said after the volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month near the fishing town of Grindavik.
What’s happening in Grindavik after the eruption?
Authorities had earlier ordered residents to leave as multiple small earthquakes indicated an imminent eruption in the region. Grindavik was previously evacuated in November when the Svartsengi volcanic system awakened after almost 800 years. The volcano erupted on December 18, sending lava flowing away from Grindavik.
Emergency workers spent the time after that to build defensive walls that have stopped much of the lava flow from the new eruption near the town.
