A volcano in southwest Iceland erupted again on Friday, spewing red-hot lava and smoke, for the sixth time since December.
The total length of the fissure was about 3,9 km and widened by 1,5 km in about 40 minutes, the Icelandic Meteorological Office, which monitors volcanoes, reported Reuters.
"The impact is limited to a localized area near the site of the eruption. It does not pose a threat to life and the area nearby has been evacuated," the country's foreign ministry said online.
Lava did not flow toward the nearby fishing town of Grindavik, whose nearly 4.000 residents have mostly been evacuated since November.
The eruption occurred in the Sundhnukar crater series east of Mount Silingafel, partially overlapping other recent eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula, in a volcanic system that has no central crater but erupts by opening huge fissures in the ground.
Research has shown that magma is building up underground, prompting warnings of new volcanic activity in the area south of Iceland's capital, Reykjavík.
The latest eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula, home to about 30.000 people or almost eight percent of the country's total population, ended on June 22 after spewing fountains of molten rock for 24 days.
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