The Icelandic Meteorological Office said the eruption was initially more explosive than the previous two.
officially ended. The eruption is in an uninhabited valley near the Litli-Hrútur mountain, some 30 kilometers southwest of the capital, Reykjavik.
Aerial footage showed streams of orange molten lava and clouds of gases spewing from a snaking fissure about 900 meters long. He said the eruption could “certainly last a long time, but luckily we’re not looking at a continuation of what we saw in the first few hours.” Iceland, which sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic, averages an eruption every four to five years.
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