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6700 BC. - the "Great Þjórsá Lava flow", the largest known effusive eruption in Iceland in the last 10,000 years, originated from the Veiðivötn (is:Veiðivötn) ( area. [114] The Þjórsá lava field is up to 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) in area and flowed over 100 km (62 mi) to the sea and forms the coast between Þjórsá and Ölfusá.
The volcano at one of the last days of the eruption The lava initially flowed mostly to the south and west but, in its last days, flowed almost exclusively to the north toward Route 41 (Reykjanesbraut), with only about 2.7 km (1.7 mi) left [ 186 ] and even less distance remaining to the Suðurnesjalína power line, which connects the towns on ...
The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia saw an eruption on 22 December 2018 which caused a deadly tsunami, with waves surging up to five meters in height. The tsunami killed at least 437 ...
In early 1823, the nearby volcano Katla under the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap erupted and at the same time steam columns were seen on the summit of Eyjafjallajökull. [ 18 ] : 5 The ash of Eyjafjallajökull's 1821 eruptions is to be found all over the south of Iceland.
A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Wednesday for the fifth time since December, spewing massive lava flows that threatened to cut off the town of Grindavík and prompting the evacuation of ...
A volcanic system on the Reykjanes Peninsula in the country's southwest erupted late Saturday for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky.
Still larger were the Icelandic eruptions of Katla (the Eldgjá eruption) circa 934, with 18 km 3 (4 cu mi) of erupted lava, and the Þjórsárhraun eruption of Bárðarbunga circa 6700 BCE, with 25 km 3 (6 cu mi) lava erupted, the latter being the largest effusive eruption in the last 10,000 years. [46]
NORTH OF SYLINGARFELL, Iceland (Reuters) -A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday for the third time since December, spraying streams of lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air ...