REYKJAVIK: Icelandic authorities said on Friday they could no longer observe volcanic activity at a site were an eruption started Monday.
The eruption opened a fissure in the ground about four kilometres long, spewing glowing fountains of orange lava into the sky only three kilometres from the town of Grindavik.
“Volcanic activity seems to have come to an end late yesterday night or early that morning,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said Friday, explaining no activity had been visible during surveillance flights.
“Despite that it is possible that lava is flowing underneath... and therefore it is not possible to say that the eruption is over,” IMO stressed.
