Authorities in Iceland evacuate town, Blue Lagoon spa over fear of volcanic eruption

Authorities evacuated a municipality and Blue Lagoon spa successful southwestern Iceland connected Tuesday arsenic a volcano threatened to erupt for the eighth time

LONDON -- Authorities evacuated a municipality and the Blue Lagoon spa successful southwestern Iceland connected Tuesday arsenic a volcano threatened to erupt for the eighth time.

Magma began flowing astatine a volcano adjacent the municipality of Grindavik, wherever immoderate 40 homes person been evacuated, nationalist broadcaster RUV said. The community, located connected the Reykjanes Peninsula, was mostly evacuated a twelvemonth agone erstwhile the volcano came to beingness aft lying dormant for 800 years.

The magma travel was accompanied by an aggravated earthquake tempest akin to erstwhile eruptions, Tuesday, the Icelandic Met Office said.

“No magma has reached the aboveground arsenic of now, but an eruption is apt to occur,’’ the bureau said.

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