Iceland’s Met Office warned on their website that an ‘eruption has started north of Grindavik by Hagafall’, adding it was located about 2.5 miles north east of Grindavik, but a local volcanologist said that Grindavik was safe for now. A coast guard helicopter was dispatched to confirm the exact location and size of the eruption, the Met Office added. First aerial footage shows the volcanic fissure, which is estimated to be more than two miles long. The eruption at the Sundhjuka crater is lighting up the night sky with lava spurts after a series of earthquakes hit the area. Images and livestreams by local news outlet RUV showed lava spewing from fissures in the ground for the past 30 minutes. Speaking following the eruption, Fannar Jónasson, mayor of Grindavik, said Icelandic news service Visi: ‘I’m just, like others, trying to get information. But this seems like quite an explosion in the early stages. But you don’t know anything yet. It’s going to be a long night.’ Astonishing videos of Iceland’s incredible – and beautiful – volcanic eruption
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