After Weeks of Waiting An Eruption Has Finally Started in Iceland

For over a month, the town of Grindavík on the Reykjanes Peninsula has been waiting and watching. Although most of the ~3,000 people have been evacuated from the area, authorities in Iceland have monitored the area, measuring thousands of earthquakes, a multitude of cracks in the ground and the release of volcanic gases from these cracks. No one knew if, when and where an eruption might occur.