Lava erupted from an Icelandic volcano just below an aurora borealis this week. The eruption caused multiple evacuations and destroyed houses in the fishing village of Grindavik.
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. Another volcano erupted in recent hours in Indonesia, causing disasters in the northern region of that country and giving rise to a risk of tsunamis.