, this was the fifth eruption at the Sundhnjukar crater row that sits atop the country's southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula since December. The last one that took place in March had just finished leaking magma three weeks prior., and video footage put on display just how colossal and powerful this volcanic fountain truly was.
A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted spewing fountains of molten lava, with large clouds of smoke billowing above the fissurereported back in January that the region surrounding Sundhnjukar was likely to experience even more volcanic unrest as seismometer readings indicated higher chances of earthquakes than normal.
"A daunting period of upheaval has begun on the Reykjanes Peninsula," Iceland's president, Gudni Johannesson, said in a televised press conference at the time. "This new chapter....will last for a long time, a large, populated area is at stake." Fewer than six months later, it's clear that those seismic predictions were correct, and now, folks in Grindavik and the area surrounding the volcanic hill and crater in question are being forced to live with the consequences.