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Icelandic police have suggest anyone enrol Grindavík to exercise utmost caution and warn there is a peril of cracks opening up outdoors fence - off areas in the town . Grindavík and the surrounding country were evacuated on Saturday ( March 2 ) due to the risks posed by animminent volcanic eruptionon Iceland ’s Reykjanes Peninsula .
The volume of magma compile beneath Svartsengi , 2.5 naut mi ( 4 klick ) north of Grindavík , will reach 318 million three-dimensional feet ( 9 million cubic meter ) by the oddment of Tuesday ( March 5 ) — well within the range ofprevious eruptions , according to atranslated statementfrom the Icelandic Met Office ( IMO ) . A hazard mapping released by the IMO shows the area most at risk .
An aerial view shows a residential area of Grindavik on Feb. 20. The volcano eruption in January reached the edge of the town and destroyed two houses.
" Grindavík was evacuated yesterday , as well as the Svartsengi expanse , where it was believed that an eruption could lead off then and there , " interpreter of the Icelandic Civil Defense write in a translatedstatementposted on Facebook on Sunday . " In Grindavík , there is considered to be a mellow risk of exposure of landslides into cracks , lava flows and check movements . "
Residents were tolerate to regress to the townspeople following thelast eruption on Feb. 8 . Grindavík is partially protect from lava flow by ramparts , but some of these are still under construction . The town also remainsvulnerable to crack collapse , accord to the financial statement .
" Residents and employees insert the town at their own endangerment , " representatives write . " The police force chief makes it clear that Grindavík is not a place for children or for minor to play . There are no function school and the infrastructure is in a state of disrepair . The police chief does not recommend that people stay in the town . "
A new hazard map released by the IMO indicates the area around Svartsengi is at “considerable” risk of lava flows.
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Seismic activity register over the weekend at Sýlingarfell , 3 mile ( 4.8 km ) north-east of Grindavík , indicate that magma was on the move and flowing south toward Grindavík through an underground corridor . The magma foot race ended a few hours later without reaching the town , but the risk of an volcanic eruption is still high , according to the IMO .
" It is to be anticipate that another magma stream can occur in the next few day and there is an increase chance of an eructation , " IMO representatives wrote . " [ The timing of ] the next magma stream depends on how fast the insistency due to the accumulation of magma under Svartsengi establish up to set it off . "
The Blue Lagoon resort and Northern Light Inn are in an area considered to be at risk of lava flows, a new IMO hazard assessment map shows.
A new eructation could start with less than 30 minutes ' observation , authorities warned . The volcano is most likely to erupt in the area between Stóra - Skógfell and Hagafell — 3.7 to 1.2 miles ( 5.9 to 2 km ) nor’-east of Grindavík — with a high risk of lava flow in the vicinity of the Blue Lagoon resort , the Northern Light Inn and HS Orka geothermal power works in Svartsengi .
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Between 600 and 800 guests at the Blue Lagoon were empty from the resort over fears of an close at hand eruption on March 2 , theIceland Monitor report .
of import infrastructure in the area has been protect from lava flow rate with fortifications , according to the Icelandic Civil Defense . " condition inside and outdoor peril zones can change with little poster , " representatives write . " Dangers can be hidden outside the marked areas . "
Although unlikely , the possibility that an bam might pass off in Grindavík itself can not be ruled out , they added .
