{"id":49445,"date":"2024-03-17T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49445"},"modified":"2024-03-17T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:54:56","slug":"volcano-erupts-again-on-iceland-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49445","title":{"rendered":"Volcano erupts again on Iceland peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Icelandic police declared a state of emergency Saturday as lava spewed from a new volcanic fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;volcanic eruption has started between stora Skogfell and Hagafell on the Reykjanes Peninsula,&#8221; said a statement from the Icelandic Met Office (IMO). Live video images showed glowing lava and billowing smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland&#8217;s Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management announced it had sent a helicopter to narrow down the exact location of the new fissure. The authority also said the police had declared a state of emergency due to the eruption.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IMO, it occurred close to the same location as a previous eruption on February 8. Lava appeared to flow south towards the dykes built to protect the fishing village Grindavik, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 2200 GMT, &#8220;the southern lava front was just 200 metres from the barriers on the eastern side of Grindavik and moving at a rate of about one km per hour,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icelandic police declared a state of emergency Saturday as lava spewed from a new volcanic fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula, the fourth eruption to hit the area since December. A &#8220;volcanic eruption has started between stora Skogfell and Hagafell on the Reykjanes Peninsula,&#8221; said a statement from the Icelandic Met Office (IMO). Live video images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[837],"class_list":["post-49445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-volcano-erupts-again-on-iceland-peninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}