Iceland Declares End of its Longest-Running Volcanic Eruption

Reykjavík – Icelandic authorities on Monday officially announced the end of the a volcano’s eruption near the capital Reykjavík, after three months of interruption.

“It’s been three months since there has been any lava flow, so the eruption is considered over,” Bryndís Ýr Gísladóttir, an official at the Icelandic Meteorological Institute (IMO), told international media.

The institution that follows the volcanic activity in the country continues however to monitor the sector, she continued.

This small and spectacular lava eruption had occurred on March 19 in the vicinity of Mount Fagradalsfjall, about thirty kilometers southwest of the Icelandic capital.

This eruption, the sixth for twenty years on the island, had become the longest recorded in half a century.