{"id":178643,"date":"2023-12-19T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/iceland-volcano-erupts-near-town-after-weeks-of-quake-activity"},"modified":"2023-12-19T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:23:07","slug":"iceland-volcano-erupts-near-town-after-weeks-of-quake-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/iceland-volcano-erupts-near-town-after-weeks-of-quake-activity","title":{"rendered":"Iceland volcano erupts near town after weeks of quake activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iceland-volcano-erupts-near-town-after-weeks-of-quake-activity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OSLO, Dec 18 (Reuters) \u2014 A volcano erupted late on Monday in southwest Iceland, spewing lava and smoke across a wide area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country\u2019s Meteorological Office said, threatening a nearby town.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing a significant eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula, authorities last month evacuated the nearly 4,000 inhabitants of the fishing town of Grindavik and closed the nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarning: Eruption has started north of Grindavik by Hagafell,\u201d the Met Office said on its website, noting that the eruption began only a few kilometres from the town and cracks in the ground stretched toward the village located about 40 km (25 miles) south-west of Iceland\u2019s capital city Reykjavik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSLO, Dec 18 (Reuters) \u2014 A volcano erupted late on Monday in southwest Iceland, spewing lava and smoke across a wide area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country\u2019s Meteorological Office said, threatening a nearby town. Fearing a significant eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula, authorities last month evacuated the nearly 4,000 inhabitants of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}