The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

days before the volcano erupted. A large fissure has opened up nearby, at the Sundhnukagígar crater north of Grindavik, with lava flowing both east and west. One estimate by the country's Met ...

The volcano's most recent eruption — from August 2014 through to February 2015 — was the largest outbreak in Iceland for more than 300 years. The eruption began when a large fissure opened up ...

Take Iceland, for example. With the region facing numerous eruptions from a volcano since the end of 2023, dramatic photos ...

Enormous plumes of smoke and spews of lava have since been flowing from a nearly 4 kilometre (2.5 miles) long volcanic fissure. Residents in the region have been bracing themselves for the ...

An Icelandic peninsula experienced its fourth eruption since December with lava from a new volcanic fissure steadily advancing, though the eruption’s intensity had decreased, authorities said.

For the time being, the well-known Blue Lagoon thermal spa has closed its doors due to the great risk that a volcanic fissure could open up in the same area. (Photo by Raul Moreno/SOPA Images ...

Volcanic gas is said to be the primary hazard ... as a series of explosive fissure eruptions occurred.