22 Mar 2021

Iceland residents get explanation for mystery earthquakes

From Morning Report, 6:12 am on 22 March 2021

On Friday, residents in Iceland got an explanation for the thousands of earthquakes that have been shaking them over the past few weeks.

After 800 years lying dormant, a volcano has been spewing out red lava, though it's posing no danger to people. Residents are free to hike up a mountain and see the action for themselves.

The lava has flowed out of a fissure and into in a valley on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland.

Iceland correspondent Ingólfur Bjarni Sigfússon spoke to Guyon Espiner.