A photographer in Iceland was in a position to seize some intense images and pictures of the volcano at the moment erupting on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Hörður Kristleifsson says he was in a position to go to the scene accompanied by ICE-SAR and the police. Dealing with robust winds, he flew a drone as soon as over the Sundhnúkagígaröðin eruption earlier than being compelled to evacuate.
The Icelandic Meteorological Workplace, in an replace on Tuesday, says the eruption, which started in power on Monday night, December 18, is now weakening.
“New aerial photos of the realm present that there at the moment are three vents erupting southeast of Stóra-Skógfell, down from the earlier 5,” the Icelandic Meteorological Workplace writes in its December 19, 18:30 UTC replace.
The workplace mentioned not less than 320 earthquakes have been measured for the reason that eruption began, together with one quake with a magnitude of 4.1, which occurred close to midnight native time on Monday.
In a Fb submit, the Icelandic Coast Guard mentioned as quickly as they obtained notification, a helicopter crew was dispatched with scientists on board to “assess the size of the volcano, the size of the eruption and lava circulate.”
The eruption didn’t come as an entire shock. Final month, Iceland launched a volcano alert when intense seismic exercise hit the city of Grindavík, which is only a couple miles from the Sundhnúksgíga volcano. The Blue Lagoon thermal pool was briefly closed in November, and Grindavík residents had been evacuated. It’s now clear the precaution was untimely by just some weeks.
