This animated image file (GIF) includes a series of webcam images—one image every two minutes—from the F1cam thermal camera located on the western rim of Halema‘uma‘u crater, ,summit. The images are in a continuous loop showing the first few hours of the summit eruption which started on December 20. The first image is from 9:20 p.m. HST, approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the eruption, and the final image was taken at 1:06 a.m. HST on December 21. | USGS Volcanoes

95K views · 749 reactions | A volcano in Iceland has erupted again in the country's Reykjanes Peninsula, forcing an evacuation of the Blue Lagoon and nearby town of Grindavik. The current eruption is the most powerful in the recent sequence of seismic activity, according to Iceland's public broadcaster RUV. https://cnn.it/4ciRqpk | CNN | Facebook