Dramatic moment Iceland volcano erupts without warning AGAIN as lava spews into air & tourists evacuated from resort

A VOLCANO adjacent Iceland's superior has erupted for the seventh clip successful conscionable a year.

The eruption started with small informing soon aft 11pm past nighttime - with melodramatic footage showing a partition of magma lighting up the nighttime sky.

The volcano sits 20 miles south-west of Reykjavik and Wednesday's eruption is the tenth successful conscionable 3 years.

Spewing fountains of lava and smoke, the eruption created a fissure astir 1.8 miles long.

Around 50 houses were evacuated aft the Civil Protection bureau issued an alert - and guests astatine the celebrated Blue Lagoon edifice were besides evacuated.

The repeated volcanic eruptions adjacent to Grindavk - a municipality of 3,800 radical - person damaged infrastructure and buildings and forced galore residents to relocate.

The past eruption lone ended connected September 6.

Magns Tumi Gumundsson, a prof of geophysics who flew implicit the eruption with the Civil Protection agency, said: "In the large picture, this is simply a spot smaller than the past eruption and the eruption that occurred successful May.

"Grindavk is not successful information arsenic it looks and it is improbable that this ace volition get immoderate longer, though thing tin beryllium ruled out."

Iceland, with astir 400,000 citizens, is located connected the responsibility enactment betwixt the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.

It makes it a seismic hotspot with geysers, warm-water springs and dozens of volcanoes.

The biggest eruption successful caller years was the Eyjafjallajokull volcano successful 2010 - which spewed immense clouds of ash into the entity and disrupted aerial question for months.

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