Iceland volcanic eruption: barriers reinforced as lava flows towards town

Flows pose danger to infrastructure in Grindavik, and hundreds of people evacuated from nearby Blue Lagoon

Flows pose danger to infrastructure in Grindavik, and hundreds of people are evacuated from nearby Blue LagoonEmergency teams worked through the night to bolster defensive barriers around the evacuated fishing town of Grindavik as lava from the fourth volcanic eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula since December flowed towards it.

By midday on Sunday, scientists said flows appeared to be slowing somewhat but still posed a danger to infrastructure in and around Grindavik. “Seismic activity has decreased since the eruption began,” the IMO’s Pálmi Erlendsson told the broadcaster RÚV. The eruption site is a few miles north-east of Grindavik, about 30 miles south-west of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik. The town’s 3,800 inhabitants were evacuated before the first eruption in December and barely 100 had since returned.

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