Spectacular images of the Blue Lagoon surrounded by volcanic lava

Lava from Iceland’s latest volcanic eruption engulfed the main parking lot of one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions last Thursday. Blue Lagoon Geothermal SpaA tongue of black and orange lava can be seen covering the area where 350 cars or coaches used to pass each day. A service building used to store visitors’ luggage was also surrounded by lava, but there was no immediate threat to the thermal pools as the defensive wall contained lava. Grindavik and the fishing village of Blue Lagoon were evacuated on Wednesday night after the explosion Sundhanukagigar Volcano

On the Reykjanes Peninsula, for the seventh time in a year. Most of the 4,000 residents of Grindavik They had been evacuated a year earlier, shortly before the first eruption. Since then, almost all the houses have been sold to the state, and their residents have moved out. The peninsula’s volcanoes had not erupted for eight centuries until March 2021, when a period of increased seismic activity began. Iceland is home to 33 active volcanic systems, more than any other European country. It is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a fault on the ocean floor that separates the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates and causes earthquakes and eruptions.