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Agence France-Presse

Lava from a new volcanic fissure on an Icelandic peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December, steadily advanced on Sunday, but the eruption’s intensity had decreased, authorities said.
Icelandic police declared a state of emergency shortly after the eruption at 8.23pm local time on Saturday.
The Icelandic Met Office (IMO) said response workers were monitoring the lava’s advance, “which has been slow and steady since” Sunday morning.
It said that the lava was some 200 metres (650 feet) from the water distribution pipe coming from the nearby Svartsengi power plant.

“But during the night, the intensity of the eruption decreased and now there are three active openings on the eruptive fissure,” the IMO said in a statement, adding that “seismic activity also significantly decreased overnight”.
“This development is very similar to the three previous eruptions on the Sundhnukur crater row,” the IMO said.
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Local media on Saturday evening reported that Iceland’s famed Blue Lagoon geothermal spa had been evacuated, as well as the fishing town of Grindavík.
The roughly 4,000 residents of Grindavík were only cleared to return to their homes on February 19 after having been evacuated on November 11, though only around a hundred chose to do so.
On that occasion, hundreds of tremors damaged buildings and opened up huge cracks in roads.
The earthquakes were followed by a volcanic fissure on December 18 that spared the village.
But a fissure opened right on the town’s edge in January, sending lava flowing into the streets and reducing three homes to ashes, followed by a third eruption near the village on February 8.
The eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula have also raised fears for the Svartsengi power plant, which supplies electricity and water to around 30,000 people on the peninsula.

The plant was evacuated and has been run remotely since the first eruption in the region, and walls have been built to protect it.
Iceland is home to 33 active volcano systems, the highest number in Europe.
It straddles the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a crack in the ocean floor separating the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.
But until March 2021, the Reykjanes peninsula had not experienced an eruption for eight centuries.
Further eruptions occurred in August 2022 and in July and December 2023, leading vulcanologists to say it was probably the start of a new era of seismic activity in the region.


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People watch as molten lava flows out from a fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula, western Iceland. Photo: AFP

An eruption near Grindavík, Iceland. Photo: Public Security Department of Icelandic Police via Reuters

The lava flow that crossed Grindavikurvegur, the road to Grindavík in Iceland. Photo: AP

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Iceland’s Meteorological Office says a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of the country. Photo: AP

Aerial view of the volcano erupting, north of Grindavík, Iceland on Thursday. Photo: AP

Lava flows across a road north of Grindavík, Iceland on Thursday. Photo: Reuters 

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The volcano spewing lava and smoke as it erupts in Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Photo: Iceland Civil Protection via Reuters

Lava explosions near residential buildings in the southwestern Icelandic town of Grindavík. Photo: AFP

Billowing smoke and flowing lava. Photo: Icelandic Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management via AFP

People watch from the north as the volcano erupts near Grindavik, Iceland. Photo: AP

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A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Grindavik, Iceland. Photo: Civil Protection of Iceland via Reuters

A helicopter near the volcanic eruption. Photo: Icelandic Coast Guard via EPA-EFE

A crack in a road in Grindavik, Iceland, which was evacuated in November due to volcanic activity. File photo: Reuters

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Cracks emerge on a road in Grindavik, Iceland, on Sunday. Photo: via Reuters 

Lava spurts and flows after the eruption of a volcano in Iceland in July 12. Photo: Handout via Reuters

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A tourist at the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in Iceland. The spa has temporarily closed after a series of earthquakes put Iceland’s southwestern corner on volcano alert. Photo: AP

Magma from the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano produces a red shimmer behind the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in southwest Iceland in 2021. A swarm of earthquakes had guests at one of the country’s top tourist attractions fleeing in panic this week amid fear another volcano nearby would erupt. Photo: AFP

Bathers enjoy the warm water of the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, one of Iceland’s top tourist attractions. Photo: AP

Guests are wreathed in steam rising from the water at the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in Iceland. Photo: AP

A towering ash plume rises from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano during its eruption in 2010, which closed airspace across Europe and caused major flight disruption. Photo: Getty Images

A tourist bathes in the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa. Guests shaken awake by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake fled the spa in panic this week amid fears a string of recent tremors signalled a nearby volcano could erupt. Photo: AP

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Lava flow ‘slow and steady’ after Iceland police declare state of emergency Latest volcano eruption – the fourth since December – began on Saturday

Lava flow ‘slow and steady’ after Iceland police declare state of emergency

Latest volcano eruption – the fourth since December – began on Saturday