Iceland is brace for a potentially hazardousvolcanic eruptionin the SW of the island . Over the weekend , the Icelandic Met Office warn of a high-pitched likelihood of an eruption in the coming twenty-four hour period . Since the conclusion of last calendar month , an gain in seismic activity has put authorities on warning signal , with hundreds of seismic event daily focus in the Reykjanes region .
The worry grew when , in the last 10 sidereal day , depth psychology showed a Brobdingnagian amount of earth puffiness , indicating that something is pushing the ground up from within . Together with the ground upswelling , the strength of the quakes has also increased . On November 12 , there were1,000 quakesin the region .
While the highest order of magnitude quake are still around 5 , the apparent movement of the magma has chair tocracks in the route and collapsesin certain areas of the region .
There is a magma intrusion stretching across Grindavík , a fishing town of around 3,000 occupier , and then further northeast for a total length of 15 klick ( 9 miles ) . The encroachment move from being 1,500 metre deep to just 800 m ( 4,920 to 2,625 feet ) , highlighting how it is lento moving towards the aerofoil . The location of the likely extravasation is presently unsung , as well as whether it might be time of day or days away .
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Due to the risks and dubiety , Iceland ’s Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management ordered a complete evacuation of Grindavík and the surround areas . The Blue Lagoon , one of Iceland ’s most famous tourist attracter , was also closed . The Chief of Police in Suðurnes allow residents to get into , under oversight , a defined surface area in Þórkötlustaðahverfi in Grindavík . This was to collect crucial items , PET , and livestock .
There have beenthree eruptionson the Reykjanes Peninsula in the last two years , so local residents , Icelandic authorities , and experts are well prepared for them . Still , there are business organisation that this irruption will be grownup than the premature three combined , base on the volume of the magma that has been estimated to be under the surface of the realm .
The Fagradalsfjall scheme , of which those three eruptions have been part , lie in parallel to this magma encroachment . The system had not seen a volcanic eruption in 6,000 years before the first one in 2021 . Well , it is clearly abeyant no more .
