Volcano In Iceland Erupts After Triggering Thousands Of Earthquakes
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More than 3,000 people have evacuated from a fishing village.
A volcano that’s been triggering tens of thousands of earthquakes near a small village in Iceland erupted after weeks of anticipation, the country’s meteorological office said Friday.
The eruption began just after 10 p.m. local time on the country’s Reykjanes Peninsula, about 2½ miles north of Grandavik, a fishing village that evacuated more than 3,000 residents last month under the looming threat of an eruption and as hundreds of earthquakes a day were caused by magma shifting under the Earth’s crust.
“A Coast Guard helicopter will take off shortly to confirm the exact location and size of the eruption,” the meteorological office said about an hour after the eruption.
Morgunblaðið, a daily newspaper in Iceland, is broadcasting a livestream of the spewing magma.
The region (and Iceland overall) is very seismically active, but residents were reportedly shocked when authorities detected underground lava so close to where they live.
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