Down below, a car park was swallowed up by lava and buildings were evacuated, but there was said to be no threat to air travel in the region.

The eruption — the 10th on the Reykjanes Peninsula since 2021 — began with little warning. The nearby town of Grindavik and the Blue Lagoon were evacuated.

A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula of Iceland near the capital Reykjavik that sat dormant for 800 years until last December began erupting again this