On the Reykjanes peninsula, a fissure about a kilometer long in the volcanic system is spewing lava after Wednesday’s eruption. After the volcano erupted for the seventh time this year, the lava reached the tourist-popular geothermal swimming pool Modrá laguna, whose parking lot was completely flooded today, informs BBC.
Volcanic activity in the gap is relatively stable and does not appear to have decreased significantly overnight, he says Icelandic website Iceland Monitor. According to lava flow models, the lava will likely continue to spill into the landscape, but in which there is no infrastructure. The Blue Lagoon, located about 50 kilometers southwest of the Icelandic capital Reykjavík, is one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions. Hotel guests and homes in the area were evacuated. According to the authorities, air transport is not at risk. The Icelandic authorities had a protective wall erected around the Blue Lagoon.
Experts say it will take one to two weeks from the end of the eruption before people and machines can enter the lava field to rebuild roads that have been swallowed by the lava.
According to seismologists, a long-dormant fault line has reawakened. Scientists have previously warned that the Reykjanes peninsula faces repeated volcanic eruptions in the coming decades or centuries. The last major disruption to air traffic that affected the whole of Europe due to the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano dates back to 2010, when volcanic clouds spread over the whole of Europe. At that time, 100,000 flights were canceled worldwide.
The geological systems in the peninsula area were inactive for about 800 years, but in 2021 they woke up to life.
Source: www.tyden.cz
