The Icelandic volcano has erupted four times in the last three months.

When the volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula last erupted in February, it engulfed a pipeline and thousands of people lost their access to hot water and heat.

TFD – Explore the chaos and impact caused by the recent eruption of an Icelandic volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Get insights into evacuation efforts, lava flow, and the challenges faced by residents in affected areas.

For the fourth time in three months, an Icelandic volcano erupted on Saturday night, shooting orange lava jets into the night sky.

The eruption, according to Iceland’s Meteorological Office, created a rift in the ground between the Hagafell and Stóra-Skógfell mountains on the Reykjanes Peninsula that is nearly two miles long.

For weeks, the Met Office has issued warnings that an eruption was likely due to the buildup of magma, or semi-molten rock, beneath the surface.

When the eruption started, hundreds of people were evacuated from Iceland’s most popular tourist destination, the Blue Lagoon thermal spa, according to national television RUV.

The biggest airport in Iceland, Keflavik, lies close. No flight interruptions were recorded there.

Situated around 30 miles southwest of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, the eruption location is a few miles northeast of Grindavik, a 3,800-person coastal town that was evacuated prior to the December eruption. On Saturday, a small number of people who had gone back to their houses were evacuated once more.

When the Svartsengi volcanic system erupted in November after nearly 800 years, causing a string of big earthquakes that exposed enormous fissures in the ground north of the town, Grindavik was forced to leave.

On December 18, the volcano finally erupted, causing lava to flow out from Grindavik. Lava was directed toward the town on January 14th, when a second eruption started. Some of the flow was blocked by defensive walls that had been reinforced during the initial eruption, but the lava nevertheless destroyed a number of houses.

Only a few days passed between the two eruptions. On February 8, a third eruption started. It ended in a matter of hours, but not before a pipeline was consumed by a flood of lava, depriving thousands of people of heat and hot water.

According to geophysicist Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, who was mentioned by RUV, the most intense eruption to date is this one. A portion of the lava was pouring toward the protective walls surrounding Grindavik, according to the Met Office.

Iceland is well-versed in handling frequent volcanic eruptions due to its location over a hot zone in the North Atlantic. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano’s 2010 eruption, which caused massive ash clouds to shoot into the skies and resulted in extensive airspace restrictions over Europe, was the most destructive event of recent times.

Although no verified fatalities have been linked to any of the most recent eruptions, a laborer was reported missing after he fell into a crevice the volcano had created.