{"id":17847,"date":"2023-12-19T05:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=17847"},"modified":"2023-12-19T05:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:11:03","slug":"volcano-erupts-in-iceland-on-reykjanes-peninsula-neighbourhood-towns-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/volcano-erupts-in-iceland-on-reykjanes-peninsula-neighbourhood-towns-evacuated\/17847\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcano erupts in Iceland on Reykjanes peninsula; Neighbourhood towns evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity.<\/p>\n<p>About 4,000 people were earlier evacuated from the fishing town of Grindavik and a nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa was also closed.<\/p>\n<p>As per the reports, the eruption started north of the town at 22:17 local time (22:17 GMT), according to the Icelandic Met Office.<\/p>\n<p>The eruption is not expected to bring the same level of disturbance similar to the one in 2010, which had halted European air travel, an expert said.<\/p>\n<p>The region around the capital Reykjavik has been experiencing an increase in earthquake activity since late October.<\/p>\n<p>As per the data revealed by Met Office, the eruption was located about 4 kilometers north-east of Grindavik and the seismic activity was moving towards the town.<\/p>\n<p>Images and videos making rounds on the internet show the lava erupting from the volcano just an hour after an earthquake swarm, or seismic events, were detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity. About 4,000 people\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":17864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[5558],"class_list":["post-17847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-iceland-volcano"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}