A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland has erupted unexpectedly for the seventh time in a year and it has led to major evacuations - including from the Blue Lagoon tourist resort.
It is the seventh time since last December that the volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland has erupted and this time with little warning on Wednesday night, reports the Mirror.
“In the big picture, this is a bit smaller than the last eruption, and the eruption that occurred in May,” Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, a professor of geophysics who flew over the scene with the Civil Protection agency to monitor the event, told the national RUV broadcaster. Iceland typically has one eruption every four to five years due to its location above a North Atlantic volcanic hot spot. The most disruptive in recent memory was the Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in 2010, which caused months of trans-Atlantic air travel through blasting clouds of ash into the atmosphere.
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