[Regnum] An evacuation has been announced in the Icelandic city of Grindavik due to a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. This was reported on August 23 by the state broadcaster RUV, citing the Icelandic Meteorological Centre.
The eruption of the Sundhnukur volcano began on August 22 at 21:26 local time (August 23 at 00:26 Moscow time). Eleven minutes later, the authorities declared a state of emergency. By now, all people have been evacuated from the dangerous area.
The height of the volcanic emissions reached four kilometers. In an hour and a half, the lava moved about 1.2 kilometers to the south, toward the town of Grindavik. Professor of geophysics Magnus Gudmundsson, who surveyed Sundhnukur by helicopter, suggested that there would not be a strong lava flow in Grindavik, which scientists feared. Experts continue to monitor the volcano.
There are a total of 33 active volcanic systems on the peninsula. It is noted that an eruption of similar power was last observed in December 2023. And the last eruption of the volcano was recorded in May 2024. The Sundhnukur volcano has erupted for the seventh time since 2021, when it woke up after an 800-year "hibernation".
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that a small amount of ashfall from the Shiveluch volcano erupting in Kamchatka was recorded on August 18 in two populated areas of the region. A small amount of volcanic ash fell in the villages of Ust-Kamchatsk and Krutoberegovo in the Ust-Kamchatsky District. The Shiveluch volcano has been assigned an orange aviation hazard code, and lava is being squeezed out
At the end of July, the Bezymyanny volcano in Kamchatka ejected a column of ash to a height of 12 kilometers, the plume stretched for 300 kilometers. Due to the explosive eruption of the volcano, the tourist route "Around the Tolbachiks" in the Klyuchevsky Nature Park was closed. In the coming month, volcanologists expect a powerful eruption of the Bezymyanny volcano with an ash emission to a height of six to 15 kilometers above sea level.