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A volcanic eruption has engulfed homes in Grindavik, southwest Iceland, with fast-flowing lava and a huge lava tunnel beneath the town being regarded as the 'worst case scenario' by experts.
Dramatic footage shows molten lava consuming several homes on the northernmost tip of the fishing town, which lies around 25 miles away from Iceland's capital Reykjavík.
The eruption began just before 8am local time today, before a second fissure, which is currently a kilometre (3,280ft) wide and growing, opened up at around midday. Experts have said that more fissures may open up over the coming days.
Police chief Víðir Reynisson, citing the Icelandic Met Office, warned that 'there is no end to magma inflow into the tunnel, and as a result we need to be prepared and focus our actions on the real danger, a large crack opening in Grindavík, major gas pollution from this and then the possible opening of new eruptions.'
Flights to and from the country have so far not been affected, and the nation's president earlier said there was no risk to life, but said there was a risk that infrastructure would be damaged.
At least three homes in Grindavik have been destroyed, according to local media.
Met Office expert Benedikt Halldórsson said to RUV: 'I don't think it's possible to imagine anything worse than it erupting in a settlement and lava flowing onto houses.'
Iceland's president, Gudni Johannesson, said in a post to X: 'No lives are in danger, although infrastructure may be under threat.'
Lovísa Mjöll Guðmundsdóttir, a natural disaster expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, told local media: 'It cannot be ruled out that more cracks will open.
'The GPS data showed us that there is increased magma inflow into the tunnel and with that there is a possibility of more fissures opening up.'
see the videos here.... Volcanic eruption triggers lava stream that swallows homes in Iceland
A volcanic eruption has engulfed homes in Grindavik, southwest Iceland, with fast-flowing lava and a huge lava tunnel beneath the town being regarded as the 'worst case scenario' by experts.
Dramatic footage shows molten lava consuming several homes on the northernmost tip of the fishing town, which lies around 25 miles away from Iceland's capital Reykjavík.
The eruption began just before 8am local time today, before a second fissure, which is currently a kilometre (3,280ft) wide and growing, opened up at around midday. Experts have said that more fissures may open up over the coming days.
Police chief Víðir Reynisson, citing the Icelandic Met Office, warned that 'there is no end to magma inflow into the tunnel, and as a result we need to be prepared and focus our actions on the real danger, a large crack opening in Grindavík, major gas pollution from this and then the possible opening of new eruptions.'
Flights to and from the country have so far not been affected, and the nation's president earlier said there was no risk to life, but said there was a risk that infrastructure would be damaged.
At least three homes in Grindavik have been destroyed, according to local media.
Met Office expert Benedikt Halldórsson said to RUV: 'I don't think it's possible to imagine anything worse than it erupting in a settlement and lava flowing onto houses.'
Iceland's president, Gudni Johannesson, said in a post to X: 'No lives are in danger, although infrastructure may be under threat.'
Lovísa Mjöll Guðmundsdóttir, a natural disaster expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, told local media: 'It cannot be ruled out that more cracks will open.
'The GPS data showed us that there is increased magma inflow into the tunnel and with that there is a possibility of more fissures opening up.'
see the videos here.... Volcanic eruption triggers lava stream that swallows homes in Iceland
