The imminent eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland cracks the roads: "It's crazy"

The Civil Protection authority of Iceland declared a state of emergency throughout the territory on November 11 due to the imminent risk of eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, located on the Reykjanes peninsula, in the southwest of the country, after more of 30,000 earthquakes of magnitude greater than 5 since October 25 and a CNN team has traveled to the site to show the volcano and the effects of its immediate eruption from the air.

Flying over the vicinity you can see huge cracks in the roads of Grindavik produced by the pressure of an underground magma flow and, Andri Johannesson, a pilot with the Icelandic Coast Guard, explains that you can see “differences between days” as the cracks They widen and “run to the ocean.”

Likewise, the Coast Guard is on alert all the time: “In case the volcano starts, we will fly over the area to help the people of Waikato,” admits Johannesson.

The consequences could be dire and there are fears that the entire surface of Grindavik will end up completely drowned by lava.

“I can't even imagine…it's just crazy,” says Hrannar Sigurdsson, another of the pilots.

Experts point out that it could be the most destructive eruption in the last 50 years from the same volcano, which last erupted in 2021, and the 4,000 inhabitants of the town of Grindavik have been evacuated because it is feared that its surface will end up completely drowned. by the lava.

A week after the eviction, Icelandic authorities continue to do everything they can to save the city and its infrastructure, such as a geothermal power plant where ground crews are trying to build a level space to protect it.