Icelandic police declared a state of emergency on Saturday as lava spewed from a new volcanic fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December. A “volcanic eruption has started between Stori-Skogfell and Hagafell on the Reykjanes Peninsula,” said a statement from the Icelandic Meteorological Office…
Iceland’s president said the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature” after molten lava from a volcano in the island’s southwest consumed several houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik. President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson said in a televised address late on Sunday that “a daunting period of upheaval has begun…
Natural calamities and harsh weather dominated news headlines in 2023. Seismic tremors, massive floods, raging wildfires, unrelenting droughts, landslides, cyclones and storms hit around the world, killing and displacing tens of thousands of people. The most destructive event of the year was a twin earthquake with magnitudes of 7.8 and…
NewsFeed A volcano in Iceland has started erupting after weeks of earthquake activity that forced the evacuation of a nearby town as a precaution. Published On 19 Dec 202319 Dec 2023 Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source
A volcano in southwest Iceland has erupted, spewing lava and smoke across a wide area weeks after nearly 4,000 residents of a nearby town were evacuated amid intense seismic activity. The eruption started at about 10:17pm (22:17 GMT) on Monday on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, turning the sky orange and prompting the country’s…
Two more bodies were found late on Monday, an Indonesian official says, as volcanic activity hampers rescue mission. Thirteen climbers have been declared dead since the Mount Marapi volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday, with the head of the local rescue service saying two more bodies were found. “The total…
NewsFeed Hikers have filmed videos of themselves covered in ash after getting caught in a deadly volcanic eruption on Indonesia’s Mount Marapi. Eleven people have died and Indonesian authorities say 12 more are missing. Published On 4 Dec 20234 Dec 2023 Check out our Latest News and Follow us at…
Two Oregon skiers watched as their friend was swept over a snow-covered volcano cliff and died as a result of the fall, authorities said. A search and rescue team with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched at about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday to a report of an avalanche at Paulina Peak in…
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