Dozens of individuals may very well be seen parked on the aspect of the principle street from the capital Reykjavik to Iceland’s Keflavik airport to look at the eruption, in accordance with an AFP correspondent on the scene.
Iceland’s nationwide airport and air navigation service supplier Isavia mentioned in an announcement that “flights to and from Iceland are working usually regardless of the continuing eruption”.
That is the sixth eruption to hit the world since December, coming simply two months after the top of a earlier eruption that lasted greater than three weeks.
The chief of police of the Sudurnes area, Ulfar Ludviksson, instructed information outlet mbl.is that the evacuation of the close by fishing village of Grindavik was going effectively. He added that 22 or 23 homes within the village have been presently occupied.
Most of Grindavik’s 4,000 residents had evacuated in November, previous to a December eruption, and whereas residents have since been allowed to return in between eruptions, only some have opted to remain in a single day.
