2024-01-15 21:38:30
Today the fishing town of Grindavik, located in the southeast of Iceland, had to be evacuated after the Merapi volcano had great seismic and magmatic activity. The area has been under alert for several weeks.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office issued warnings about the probability of an imminent lava eruption, supported by data showing changes in pressure and by real-time GPS station readings.
Given the warning, the authorities acted, despite the fact that the movement was generated two days before the scheduled date and they evacuated the area. The eruption was about 70 kilometers southwest of the capital, Reykjavík, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, a place that many tourists choose when they visit the country.
Leaders warned tourists to refrain from approaching the eruption site, allowing them to focus on mitigate potential damage and save critical resources if they had to perform rescues and other emergencies.
The lava, which flowed towards Grindavík, reached about 450 meters from the northernmost houses of the cityand had gotten dangerously close to a building identified as a greenhouse managed by the company ORF Biotechnique, visible on the RÚV webcams.
The sales, operations and services manager, Helga Árnadóttir, of the Blue Lagoon hotel reported that they released their area and found that there was minimal occupancy.
The sirens woke up citizens, who quickly left their homes during the evacuation, exhausted by constant seismic events.
And it is still missing, since the volcanologist Ármann Höskuldsson advance a possible recurrence over the next 10 to 12 years.
In this regard, the country’s Civil Protection Agency reported that “it can be assumed that the order will be in effect for the next three weeks”
With information from Argentine News
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