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Eruption in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland

In southwest Iceland, in early August 2022, another volcanic eruption began on a fissure swarm that last year awakened from nearly a millennia of quiet.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published August 19, 2022
Data acquired August 7 - 16, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 8 > TIRS