The Icelandic press is unanimous.
“Without the dikes that were built, the lava from the eruption that occurred last night would probably have flowed south, over Grindavik,” wrote the daily Morgunblaðið this Sunday.
Impressive reddish fountains burst out of the ground on Saturday evening in southwest Iceland, for the 4th time in three months.
Grindavik, whose 3,500 inhabitants had once again been evacuated, risked being engulfed by magma as was the main village of the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
But the protective barriers built in recent weeks, thanks to Icelandic know-how in this area, have made it possible to avoid this worst-case scenario in this fairly flat region accustomed to the roaring of the underground.
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