Terrifying moment Iceland volcano erupts without warning sparking tourist evacuations

A volcano connected the Reykjanes Peninsula successful Iceland has erupted unexpectedly for the seventh clip successful a twelvemonth and it has led to large evacuations - including from the Blue Lagoon tourer resort

Lava tin beryllium seen spewing precocious into the entity with a volcano erupting in Iceland causing tourer evacuations.

The volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula successful southwestern Iceland has erupted for the seventh clip since past December and this clip with small informing connected Wednesday night.

It started astatine at 11:14pm and created a fissure astir 1.8 miles long. The main information is from state emissions, starring to an alert being issued by authorities and evacuations including from the celebrated Blue Lagoon tourer resort.

The volcanic enactment is estimated to beryllium somewhat smaller than the erstwhile eruption successful August, Iceland’s meteorological bureau that monitors seismic enactment said.

“In the large picture, this is simply a spot smaller than the past eruption, and the eruption that occurred successful May,” Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, a prof of geophysics who flew implicit the country with the Civil Protection bureau to show the event, told the nationalist RUV broadcaster.

While the eruption poses nary menace to aerial travel, authorities warned of state emissions crossed parts of the peninsula, including the adjacent municipality of Grindavík. Around 50 houses were evacuated aft the Civil Protection bureau issued the alert, on with guests astatine the Blue Lagoon spa, according to RUV.

The repeated volcanic eruptions adjacent to Grindavík, which is astir 30 miles southwest of the capital, Reykjavik, and has a colonisation of 3,800 people, person damaged infrastructure and spot and forced galore residents to relocate to warrant their safety. “Grindavík is not successful information arsenic it looks and it is improbable that this ace volition get immoderate longer, though thing tin beryllium ruled out,” Magnús Tumi said.

Iceland, which sits supra a volcanic blistery spot successful the North Atlantic, averages 1 eruption each 4 to 5 years. The astir disruptive successful caller times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed clouds of ash into the ambiance and disrupted trans-Atlantic aerial question for months.

Grindavik Mayor Fannar Jónasson said the latest eruption has travel arsenic a large daze though helium added: "But that is however unpredictable quality is." The eruption was not expected for different fewer weeks and present the volcano lava travel is heading to the westwards. Benedikt Ófeigsson from the Norwegian Meteorological Agency told section media Channel 2: "There is presently thing successful danger, and if this does not make overmuch otherwise than it has been doing, the infrastructure should flight this rather well."