Hikers scramble as new fissure opens up at Icelandic volcano

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Steam and lava spurted on Monday (Apr 5) from a new fissure at an Icelandic volcano that began erupting last month, prompting the evacuation of ...

Steam and lava spurt from a new fissure on a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland on Apr 5, 2021. REYKJAVIK, Iceland: Steam and lava spurted on Monday from a new fissure at an Icelandic volcano that began erupting last month, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of hikers who had come to see the spectacle.

Members of the Search and Rescue Team, Bjorgunasveit look at a new fissure on a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland on Apr 5, 2021. The long-dormant volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland flared to life Mar 20 after tens of thousands of earthquakes were recorded in the area in the past three weeks. It was the area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 800 years.A member of the Search and Rescue Team, Bjorgunasveit scans the horizon near a new fissure on a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland on Apr 5, 2021.

“We now see less lava coming from the two original craters,” he told The Associated Press. “This could be the beginning of second stage.”

 

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