Erin Frates, Dylan Mankel, Peter Schroedl, and Jeffrey Marlow in the lab holding pieces of igneous rock collected from Fagradalsfjall, Iceland.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-microbes-life-earth-space.html

Fagradalsfjall had been dormant for some 6000 years but it flared to life in March 2021, when hundreds of people flocked to the Reykjanes Peninsula to see spectacular lava flows that lasted for months.

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/world/iceland-volcano-flights-impacts-and-other-questions-answered-explainer/1f1a4d98-250a-407e-8a84-92f1297a9e73

Iceland’s Met Office has said magmatic gas has been detected at a borehole in Svartsengi, signalling an imminent eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano over the coming days, with the town of Grindavik most at risk.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-volcano-eruption-2023-grindavik-travel-news-b2450203.html

In their project, Nature Communications, the group studied the 2021 eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, which produced what some have described as spectacular examples of volcanic fountaining.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-theory-nature-volcanic-fountaining.html

The volcano, which is known as Fagradalsfjall and located on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland, erupted on Monday (December 18) after weeks of intense earthquakes and tremors.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/upsc-current-affairs/upsc-key-22nd-december-2023-women-in-sports-in-india-credit-rating-agencies-and-volcanoes-and-volcanic-landforms-9079430/