What would happen if an erupting volcano
was added to the spectacular nature that the photos of Iceland's northern lights already emanate ?
The new images of the exact moment where both phenomena mix speak for themselves.
Lava erupted from an Icelandic volcano just below an aurora borealis this week.
The visual spectacle was wonderful
. However. Everything beautiful was also dangerous: the eruption caused multiple evacuations and destroyed houses in the fishing village of
Grindavik
. It also left several access routes unusable.
The volcano in question is Sundhnukagigar, which has already erupted four times since December. It is about 50 kilometers from Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, an area that had not been active for 800 years before the recent eruptions.
Sundhnukagigar was active for 28 days, in what was the second longest eruption in the last three years.
Photos of the volcano and the northern lights
Another dangerous eruption in Indonesia
Another volcano erupted in recent hours in
Indonesia
, causing disasters in the northern region of that country and giving rise to a
tsunami risk
alert .
Rescuers raced Thursday to evacuate thousands of people in danger from a volcano eruption.
Mount Ruang
's crater
erupted with lava and ash on Tuesday, prompting authorities to raise its alert level to the highest level.
The Sam Ratulangi
International Airport
, in the city of Manado, 100 km from the site, had to close "due to the spread of volcanic ash that could endanger the safety of flights,"
Ambar Suryoko
, head of the airport, said in a statement.
regional airport authority.
Authorities said they were rushing to evacuate 11,000 residents from around the volcano, including some from the remote island of Tagulandang, with about 20,000 inhabitants.
Mount Ruang, a stratovolcano located on a small island in the province of North Sulawesi, an isolated area of the archipelago, erupted at 9:45 p.m. (1:45 p.m. GMT) on Tuesday and had two other eruptions in the early hours of Wednesday, the agencies reported. of volcanology and geology.
Source "Another dangerous eruption in Indonesia": AFP
Trend on Google
The spectacular photographs of the phenomenon were trends on Google Trends.
The Trends graph shows that during the week of the eruption, the words "Iceland" and "volcano" had spikes in searches.