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A volcano eruption in Iceland Monday night sent lava spewing into the dark sky, forcing the country’s famous Blue Lagoon to once again shut its doors.
The eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula, which follows weeks of warnings of increased seismic activity in the area, was decreasing in intensity on Tuesday, according to the Icelandic Met Office. The eruption fissure measured about 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles) long.
“The fact that the activity is decreasing already is not an indication of how long the eruption will last, but rather that the eruption is reaching a state of equilibrium,” the Met Office wrote in a statement. “This development has been observed at the beginning of all eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula in recent years.”
There were no disruptions to flights to or from Iceland’s Keflavík International Airport, which sits on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the government noted on Tuesday.
“This eruption follows intense seismic activity over the past few weeks, and is classified as a fissure eruption… Fissure eruptions do not usually result in large explosions or significant production of ash dispersed into the stratosphere,” the government said in a statement. “Iceland’s authorities are well prepared for seismic events which occur regularly as a feature of our country’s natural geography.”
The eruption, however, forced the Blue Lagoon to once again shut its doors to visitors just days after it had reopened, the spa confirmed to Travel + Leisure. The Blue Lagoon first closed in November and later extended that closure, but had reopened over the weekend.
The Blue Lagoon will remain closed through at least Dec. 27 “at which point the situation will be reassessed.”
“As scientists had predicted, the eruption occurred in Sundhnúkagígar, situated within an active volcanic zone north of Grindavík and east of the Blue Lagoon,” the spa wrote in an update on its website. “The eruption does not pose an immediate threat to people.”
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