Iceland volcano erupts on Reykjanes peninsula | BBC News

A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity.
About 4,000 people were earlier evacuated from the fishing town of Grindavik and the nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa was closed.
The eruption started north of the town at 22:17 local time (22:17 GMT), the Icelandic Met Office said.
The region around the capital Reykjavik has been experiencing an increase in earthquake activity since late October.
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[@tothra]

My wife and I vacationed in Iceland in mid-October and left just before the earthquakes started. It is a beautiful country with wonderful people who made us feel welcome. They love to smile and laugh. And eat ice cream😁. It makes me sad that the people of Grindavik may lose their town to the lava flow. The earthquake damage was bad enough. We drove past Grindavik on our way to the house we rented. Iceland is nicknamed "the land of fire and ice" for a reason

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[@tothra]

@@ConvertToIslammmmmmm Thanks, but no thanks. I'm happy as a follower of Jesus

[@moonbladem]

I'm sorry for anyone who lost their home. I'm just glad that everyone was evacuated before the eruption happened.

[@Codetutor-DemystifyCoding]

Some of the visuals I am looking at in this video, is horrifying, awe inspiring and beautiful at the time. Only nature can do it.

[@selmahare]

I find it all of that but not horrifying. Have always been fascinated by volcanos. Used to want to be a volcanologist as an early teen.

[@Hamassholes]

​@@selmaharewho gives a shit what either of you think?

[@h2611]

Fear God

[@KongTheViking]

The horrifying part is that it's scary close to a town and peoples livelihoods are at stake there@@selmahare

[@fussypeg8561]

Terribly beautiful

[@dr.julianbashir9193]

The amount of bots in this comment section should really make you worry.

[@SERGIO-cr6uy]

Alphabet (Google / KZbin) a trillion USD company is not capable of getting rid of them Sexscam bots & Crypto scam bots?

[@dom1373]

but there is no longer any need to worry with the Amazons AMS39K

[@Elementalism.]

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[@wildlifeathome]

@@Elementalism. They go to any means to delete "misinformation" but allow things like this. They will probably delete all my comments saying scammers belong in the volcano before they do anything about these scammers.

[@JBE]

Iceland is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The people are nice and their culture is amazing.

[@queefchiefwiggam3386]

*was

[@helenpauls1496]

@@queefchiefwiggam3386Is. it’s just a corner of the whole country.

[@mechanism6648]

That’s too racist

[@anagonyaowusu3119]

@@mechanism6648oh lord…

[@eugenebecker8382]

​@mechanism6648 what is racist?

[@_ArsNova]

I find the earth's sheer power fascinating.

[@Mrbfgray]

Making more land directly or otherwise. Volcanos r why they are there. lol

[@darrellsaewhat50]

The amount of bots spewing nonsense on this comment section is almost as equivalent to the eruption of lava itself.

[@knaperstekt7953]

Report them. I sure do.

[@wildlifeathome]

Meanwhile, KZbin frantically removes anything they claim to be "misinformation" from the comments. I guess scamming people isn't "misinforming" people according to them.

[@caitlinbragg4504]

We returned from Reykjavik yesterday. We consider ourselves very fortunate. I'm hoping everyone over there keeps safe.

[@andrewjones-productions]

This particular volcano hasn't erupted since 1240 and has been dormant for 800 years. Even though the peninsula itself is seismically active and there have been other eruptions as noted in this interview. Hopefully, the southern portion will not increase and continue to diminish and the eruptions concentrate on the north side which will cause the lava to flow in the opposite direction and away from the town of Grindávik.

[@rs2993]

Praying for the awesome people of Iceland❤

[@PW-om1ds]

Pray if u want, but why feel the need to tell everyone....??? If u think that praying works, why not just pray for an end to natural disasters like this...?

[@robertmax401]

Calm down its emergency

[@johntucker5994]

Wow. Awe-inspiring video! I hope everyone will remain safe.😊

[@daftirishmarej1827]

This guy's English is fantastic. Thanks to him the English speaking part of the world has an idea what's going on. Thank you!

[@regfries8279]

Íslendingar tala góða ensku :)

[@albusperkamentus5097]

​@@regfries8279all Germanics speak good English only Anglophones think it's impressive.

[@daftirishmarej1827]

@@albusperkamentus5097 ma perché dici così?

[@daftirishmarej1827]

@@regfries8279 Do you have specific grammar lessons? I'm curious because I've taught English as a foreign language and it can be confusing (as a teacher) to work along with the state school

[@regfries8279]

@@daftirishmarej1827 I'm Australian, so English is my first language, but Icelandic is my second. If you think English has complicated grammar, Icelandic will do your head in! :) I'm only guessing when I say this, but I think the biggest difficulty for Icelanders learning English probably isn't the grammar, but the vocabulary.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

I hope everyone is safe and remains so. But like so many people, I cannot help but be overawed by the power and the beauty of the eruption. Fire fountains don't appear in many places so studying them isn't easy. Having said that, I wouldn't want to be remotely close enough to study it!

[@shirleyswaine4701]

This will come as a relief to the people of the area because they have lived with uncertainty since 10th November as to where this would happen and could do nothing until they knew where it would be. I followed the 2021 eruption and have been following the same Icelander's channel since the warning earthquakes began on 10th November. Grundavik was evacuated several weeks ago with about a quarter of the town so badly damaged by earthquakes, it cannot be repaired, even if it escapes this lava flow.

[@jome7382]

I Was wondering about this only last night! Although beautiful to watch I do hope everyone is safe... Take care.

[@aftersexhighfives]

I fear they called the evacuation too soon and people got weary and went home. How long can you stay with family in probably close quarters before you want to run off. Ha. But really...4km away at least gives them time to turn right back around. Maybe get a hotel. 😂

[@andriandrason1318]

@@aftersexhighfives No it's still evacuated, and nobody has been allowed to back.

[@aftersexhighfives]

@@andriandrason1318 small miracles

[@GeorgAndexlerAndexler]

Awesome power of mother earth

[@G0D_1]

Indeed 🙏

[@Mrbfgray]

Powerplant spooling up to record levels rumor has it.

[@saratoussaint5553]

This stuff always serves as a reminder that nobody is really 'in charge', not even the 'people at the top', it doesn't matter how rich or powerful you are, you're literally nothing when faced with the power of the Earth! As beautiful as this eruption is, it's also devastating beyond belief. I'm hoping for minimal damage and disruption, and that everybody stays safe whilst the Earth does what it has to do to reset and recover.

[@camelopardalis84]

What do you mean by "reset and recover"?

[@theambivalentps2bloke60]

Wrong, a lot of the "elites" have bunkers that will protect them from any natural disasters / weather events

[@user-zk1gi6mw5z]

@@camelopardalis84from the damage we do to it presumably Doesn’t take a genius to realise overpopulation means over deforestation, exhausting resources and having to cause more damage to dig or excavate for more many different factors We as a species are highly destructive 😂 We have been at this stage of “evolution” many times before I’m betting and every time the world needs a breather she just hits reset Whether that’s a mass ice age a pole shift or a meteor shower the universe has more than one trick up its sleeve to get rid of us but just like herpes we keep coming back 😂😂😂

[@IMGreg..]

There's literally only a small cities population on all of Iceland. That fishing village is more than 10% of the population. If that's all there is in the way of the flow then that's it, you can't damage volcanic rock much more. Thankfully there will be minimal clean up or disruption.

[@andrewcrizpy]

Tf u on about u bot

[@randomgai7531]

I can't imagine the beauty of the land of fire and ice meeting and I also hope people are fine

[@darrenpyper9689]

Impressive power of Nature........It does kind of make me question exactly how much control people think we can exert on this planet.

[@maryfinnfan4140]

We can't control anything. A lot of natural events, including weather especially, are caused by the sun and the moon's gravitational pull.

[@aftersexhighfives]

Lol we're not delusional. We're just making our livable space less livable. But the dirt does as it does. We don't understand much of anything more than 1000 feet down.

[@Raz-iw6fj]

Volcano erupted because we didn’t pay enough taxes

[@darrenpyper9689]

yes and just think of all the greenhouse gasses! At the end of the day this planet will wipe us out no matter what we do.@@aftersexhighfives

[@chriscunningham1348]

😂😂​@@Raz-iw6fj

[@harryjones5260]

great that the scientists worked it out in advance, giving everyone enough time. that is real progress

[@marcinhibner9507]

That's a lot of energy that could be harnessed. Endless supply of power.

[@ghostm4390]

Beautiful . Volcanoes are a great reminder to humans, how insignificant they are on this planet .

[@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512]

exactly!, & God sets one off, from time to time, to remind us who's Boss, & how helpless we are!!!

[@lordgarion514]

From time to time??? No, on average, there's always about 40-50 volcanos going off at any time. Just most of the time, people aren't dumb enough to live on them.

[@sergiolisboa8237]

I’m pray for y’all out there, stay safe y’all

[@katewatterson7961]

I feel so sorry for everyone who lives in Iceland 😢😢. Stay safe

[@AmazingWorldBadPeople]

Amazing view

[@lindaross783]

Prayers from the US. Worried but prayers for the best outcome.

[@intuitiveempath8988]

It’s not a ice land anymore and to tell the truth, it never was. It’s a massive volcano with ice that settled on it so y’all name it Iceland but it was alway a volcanic island. This is just a reminder.

[@SruiCtong]

I didn't even start thinking about this till last night! It's beautiful to behold, but I really hope that everyone is safe. Exercise caution.

[@petersandstedt7112]

Best wish from peter sandstedt in sweden and have a great morning best from peter

[@fidelcatsro6948]

my cat loves u too!

[@enckidoofalling2883]

Aloha from Kilauea my thoughts are with Grindavik.

[@Atok595]

Amazing

[@xxxxSOSEXYxxxx]

The beginning looking like a sunrise.

[@firewall68]

The waiting was like a suspense movie. My thoughts with the people of Grindavik, at least they were evacuated.

[@Sabre_Wulf1]

Here to remind us that we live on a cooled crust with nothing but molten rock and superhot core of a planet underneath us.

[@aftersexhighfives]

Hmmm... yes but no. There's really only magma in two gloops on either side of the planet. Google: mysterious blobs under earths crust science can't explain. They can't explain why it's that way but they can very very well explain what it does and what it means for the crust and those who live in either ring of fire. The rest is overlapping rock grooving around as a few plates that rub and pull layers down sometimes and push layers up other times. There's a lot of massive salt deposits, Google great lake salt mine. The photos are wild to think about. That much evaporation of salty seas again and again. Then... billions of years later. We eat it. 😂 Magma isn't everywhere under us.

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

beautiful place on earth

[@KiwikimNZ]

Feeling for those families whose homes may well be gone after this explosion. Their home and belongings gone. My thoughts are with them ❤

[@nickmclean3051]

They were evacuated about a month ago ,they were rehomed with all their possesions .I'd land knows how to deal with volcanos.

[@andriandrason1318]

What explosion?

[@davidchen3503]

What is the fortification?

[@farhanajannath540]

Oh my God this is horrible , may God help people of Iceland

[@eugenebecker8382]

The town has been empty for a month now. Back I. Early November they evacuated the town after a series of earthquakes.

[@tracysmith245]

just hope the power plant has no damage

[@eugenebecker8382]

@tracysmith245 last I knew they wanted to build a dam to direct the flow of lava

[@I_hunt_idiots]

​@@eugenebecker8382They have built dams to direct the flow away from the town and power plant, they just don't know how effective they will be. No one can predict the actual volume of the lava.

[@hjordistorfa]

Amazing size of this eruption.. I'm hoping the toxic smoke will not blow in dirrection Reykjavik... Thinking about all the people that have lost theyr homes in Grindavik Stay safe everyone.. Greetings from Skandinavia 💕✌️😊

[@andriandrason1318]

Would be so diluted when it comes, worst case maybe some eye irritation

[@hjordistorfa]

@@andriandrason1318 Hi Andri þakka fyrir svarið ég þekki til áhrifanna ég er landi eins og þú kanski sérð af nafninu..( systir Harðar ef þú veist hver hann er) .. min hugsun og ósk er að vindurinn sé ykkur hliðhollur.. smile Óska þèr og þinum Gleðileg Jól 🎄✌️

[@thinkistan.01]

It's beautiful but dangerous

[@fidelcatsro6948]

imagine if the chopper lost power while crossing the sea of flames

[@RabianOfficial]

Beautiful ❤

[@TweetyPAK7]

Lovely footage but I wish you could remove that intrusive banner at the bottom. Make it smaller so this incredible earth event can be the focus. Thanks for the report!

[@carolynallisee2463]

I returned from a holiday in Iceland just 10 days ago. Its a lovely country whose people are warm hearted and welcoming. It's a shame that the town of Grindavik looks to be rendered uninhabitable by this latest eruption, but I guess when you live on a volcanically active area of land, you're always faced with the risk of losing your home at almost any moment. This particular eruption has really given everyone a good run for their money, with no-one knowing for certain where the molten rock would break surface, or even when... and I don't think anyone predicted that it would come up where it has, half way between and to the East of both the Town and Blue Lagoon/ power station!

[@koshtomati2026]

God bless you

[@andriandrason1318]

Glad you enjoyed your stay, but it's noth of the town, and the area has been calm for 800 year's.

[@shovelspade480]

Nice, that's awesome 💧🔥🌍💚 Amazing

[@pmboston]

1:08 just past 6, am or pm? This is winter in Iceland . Could be either. I’m guessing am.

[@user-ii7hd9jo6m]

Nice presentation

[@VilhelmHammershoi1666]

This is why Iceland exists it's not called the land of fire and ice for nothing. The biggest catastrophe in the Icelandic economy would be, if all this, stopped tomorrow .

[@andriandrason1318]

Not really, but it's certainly a boost.

[@vampirelfortunetelling]

😢😢😢🙏

[@kindnuguz]

RUV on youtube, awesome channel that is always watching and always keeps us up to date

[@user-kg4se2ux5f]

Wow !spectacular !

[@antwandarellefenton]

Whoa

[@miguelurrutdarkorangefan2750]

Impressive. When fissure volcanoes are taught in the next few decades, the teachers are likely to use these images.

[@jim2376]

Spectacular!

[@polygonalmasonary]

I feel so sorry for those people who have lost their homes 😢😢😢

[@FirstMilitia434]

Nobody lost their homes, this lava field is on the SE portion of the island being built by these flows

[@hhproductions8254]

Nobody has lost their home? Volcanic eruptions are frequent events in Iceland

[@FirstMilitia434]

@@hhproductions8254 as insinuated by the original comment.. no, no homes were lost in This specific eruption.

[@hhproductions8254]

@@FirstMilitia434 I was saying it in response to the original comment as I knew nobody had lost there homes

[@bhew7409]

Thats not a volcano errupting, its just the whole floor!

[@mcwolfbeast]

I'm sorry but you are incorrect. the webcam was not operated by RUV, but by an independent livestream broadcaster "Live from Iceland" www.youtube.com/@liveiceland

[@SpacialKatana]

They don't do journalism

[@wafudave6041]

It's the BBC, they never get anything correct.

[@drone-vision]

Bbc love to show bs :)

[@jameshowell5912]

Yes, you are quite right. Please, in the future BBC, make sure you credit the correct person. Lift this comment to the top ^

[@jameshowell5912]

@@SpacialKatana Yes, They do. This cam was got from the live from iceland live camera- the only one pointing in that direction, I might add

[@jadeanthony]

so many volcanos erupting nowadays!

[@enno9612]

Eruptive activity hasn't changed, just the news coverage increased

[@BryerTheKing1]

It's beautiful but deadly.

[@garrieleepeck8753]

Wow

[@catherinethemba]

What a lovely safe place to live!

[@robertmax401]

R u kidding Can't u c the situation 😢

[@catherinethemba]

@@robertmax401 Google sarcasm

[@silverback8183]

Happy to see it wasn't a Mount Saint Helen's type of explosion

[@k.sullivan6303]

Is this eruption a preferrable type of eruption in the grand scheme of things? I understand that no eruption near a city, town or village is a good thing, but it could be a lot worse maybe? If it relieves pressure slowly, could that be better than the big sudden blast that could happen sometimes?

[@Varasalvi2]

This eruption, while stronger than previous ones in that area isn't actually that powerful on the historic scale. Yes, this kind of an eruption is preferable because it comes up through a wide crack instead of a single point so the force is distributed over a wider area, at least to begin with. It's also preferable because it's not under an Icecap like many have been in the past, hot meeting cold = explosions, a lot of ash, and usually a flood follows because of the melting Ice which tends to take out roads and bridges. Similar results for undersea eruptions minus the flood. New vents could open up during the eruption, but they tend to be close by the original vent. I'm not an expert in any of this by the way, so grain of salt and all that. I just live in Iceland and have experienced a fair few eruptions in my life.

[@k.sullivan6303]

Thanks very much Vara I was gonna ask you how you got so educated on the topic but you told me at the end of your reply. Experience goes a long way with that kind of thing. I hope the people affected by the lava get lots of help and everyone has a decent Christmas holiday and a better new year out there. I live on the east coast of Canada. No Volcanos here, but I joke around telling people moving out here that they had better get Volcano Insurance! 🤣Likely there will never be a volcano in Nova Scotia. Take Care.@@Varasalvi2

[@mariusmarius4832]

Bit of an anticlimax ......maybe it will perk up a bit it's been such a long wait .Nature is fascinating

[@mdpitul9260]

So sad😢😢😢

[@hawkeire2414]

edit: "not the worse case, i though the camara was facing the town in the background but it was not. if more north so, better":This is like a worst case. Directly in front of the city this is what they where hoping it wouldn't do the town is more then likely gonna be wiped out poor people 6 days before Xmas. sicking.

[@KiwikimNZ]

Oh really? So it is heading towards the town which was evacuated some time ago. I know those poor people were only given a short period to go in a gather some belongings before having to leave their homes not knowing if they will be standing upon there return. That’s very sad.

[@Old299dfk]

This is far far far from worst case.

[@sockhal4595]

Good thing people were evacuated before. I hop it won’t hinders too much the reforestation project from mossy earth.

[@davd1986]

I blame Putin

[@AaronHahnStudios]

There are KZbinrs who have zero media experience that have done a Far Better upload than this. 👎

[@paradoxward2533]

that's quite a firework show.....,

[@stephansteohanlarsen7457]

Earth, a living organism 🔥

[@enzostuff]

It's no longer Iceland now 😢

[@user-lv4en4hb7l]

Is the total heat inside the earrh reduced?

[@andriandrason1318]

Absolutely not, earth is super big.

[@HalkerVeil]

It was expected that it would be unexpected?

[@zacharydrahm825]

Remember a lot ppl said it wasn’t gonna erupt

[@palehorse6250]

Did she just ask if he could stop the volcano??!! Are you serious? What planet is she from?

[@phillydarozes4017]

I wonder how this looks like from Space.

[@MariTeabag-lf1ly]

As we are in UK, why are we talking in Kilometres?

[@wanderingandroid]

anakin is somewhere there.

[@iitzfizz]

Certainly a hot spot

[@juliawoodrow219]

God protect the people of Iceland from the toxic fumes of the eruption.

[@DeathsGarden-oz9gg]

Less weight from ice as it melts the more active the volcano gets. Why well i dont get why i just know why but the weight of the ice makes it stey dormant longer but as it melts it becomes more active. I seen a video on a documentary about it a few years ago i just forget the physics of it all lol.

[@JayJayAviation]

This volcano isn’t near any ice sheets

[@DeathsGarden-oz9gg]

@@JayJayAviation then my mistake

[@fidelcatsro6948]

looks like someone set up a gasoline fire inside the freezer compartment of a huge fridge!

[@Patshes]

That's too far away

[@nglswt]

Bro, Iceland be acting like a fireland 🔥.

[@user-hd9nc7zp1v]

😮🤯😬

[@leaedt7614]

For a second, I thought the helicopter was going to land on lava.

[@TheMattsem]

So I'm confused is this a good news or bad news

[@paulmaders5434]

Love it when Newsreaders ask that question "What can you do to stop it or prevent the eruption" Just wish the scientist would burst into laughter 🤣

[@I_hunt_idiots]

Oh trust me...we do 🤣🤣🤣

[@vijayvittalrao2586]

Looking beautiful 😍

[@hunterscott3000]

Mam... It's a volcano. You dont just move it like a car that's in your parking spot 😂

[@spankflaps1365]

No mention of flight disruption… yet.

[@maryfinnfan4140]

Depends if it goes explosive and throws ash into the atmosphere. Usually from a cinder cone type of volcano ( i think, it has been a long time since i wrnt to school)

[@TFSIChristmas]

A volcano in Iceland? : o

[@Forbidaxe]

Bubbly

[@scottfalkirk714]

I'm sure Icelandic people aren't too bothered about the eruption as volcanic activity is common with the country growing larger due to them. As long as people are out of harms way.

[@bujin1977]

When it happens out in the less inhabited areas, I'm sure they aren't too bothered. When it happens this close to a town of nearly 4000 people, a major tourist attraction and a power plant that supplies energy to 10% of the population (especially when it happens in the middle of winter), they might be a bit more bothered.

[@andriandrason1318]

@@bujin1977 Definitely does not does not supply 10%, Iceland is the largest electricity producer per capita. Of which most comes from hydro power, I think its safe to say we would be alright.

[@bujin1977]

​@@andriandrason1318Just going off what is reported - that the Svartsvengi power plant supplies 30,000 people which isn't far off 10% of Iceland's population. 7.8% to be more precise. Still a large number of people. But as you say, you'll be fine. From what I learned when I was there a few months ago, the Icelandic people are very resourceful and resilient, and I'm sure you would make up for that loss in other ways without too much trouble.

[@chickenrees]

VOLCANOOO MANNN, VOLCANIC PROTECTOR MANNN

[@kathybarry2765]

I thought it arupted a few weeks ago...

[@Moneydoesgames]

They have your mind pre programmed, break free

[@earnhardtk23]

Nature

[@francesshealingpoemsfortwo5734]

Hopefully people have been moved to safery...there have been warnings for some time 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@cport955]

Everyone is safe. Even the workers building the defences are perfectly safe

[@geofflewis8599]

Lucky the Dubai conference is over!.