A volcanic fissure opened near Grindavik on Wednesday, prompting the evacuation of more than 100 residents and tourists amid escalating seismic activity and lava flows. Footage shows lava spurting from a giant fissure on the Sundhnukur crater row,

Icelandic Police Commissioner raises Civil Protection Emergency Level due to volcano eruption, causing a 2km-long trail of hot lava Source Almannavarnadeild ríkislögreglustjóra

The concept isn’t hypothetical. Tephra layers in Icelandic peat cores show that eruptions soared six-fold between 12,000 and 10,000 years ago —exactly when