A volcano exploded today in southwestern Iceland, authorities announced, while images, which are broadcast directly by the media, seem to rise to smoke as well as a significant flow of lava flow, to the latest of a series of explosions that have been near the capital in recent years.

This island country in the North Atlantic, which is often described as the land of ice and fire, with the multitude of glaciers and volcanoes, has now recorded twelve explosions from 2021, when geological systems were reactivated on the Reyian peninsula, and nine by 20.

The magma penetrated the Earth’s crust by opening a large slit of 700 to 1,000 meters long, the meteorological service said.

“At the moment it is not threatening any infrastructure,” the meteorological service said in its announcement. “Based on GPS measurements and deformation indications, it is likely to be a relatively small explosion.”

Flights to the capital of the capital Reykjavik’s Heflavik Airport have not been affected.

The RUV public broadcasting broadcast, citing police, that holidaymakers were removed from Blue Lagoon, a luxury geothermal resort, and the neighboring city of Grindavik.

Grindavik, where nearly 4,000 people lived before they were ordered, in 2023, to evacuate it, has since remained almost deserted since the fear of lava and earthquakes associated with volcanic eruptions.

The explosions in Reyyians have not threatened Reykjavik so far, nor have they launched large tumors of ash in the stratosphere to create air traffic problems.

Experts have said that explosions in the area can be repeated periodically for decades, even for centuries.

These eruptions of slit, as they are known, are characterized by the fact that the lava comes out of large cracks rather than a central crater.