![]() ![]() Iceland's Justice Minister Gudrun Hafsteinsdottir told state broadcaster RUV that equipment and materials that could fill 20,000 trucks were being moved to the plant.Ĭonstruction of the protective dyke around the power station was awaiting formal approval from the government.Ī spokesperson for HS Orka, operator of the power plant, said the plant supplies power to the entire country, although a disruption would not effect power supply to the capital Reykjavik. (Road Administration of Iceland/Facebook/Reuters)Īuthorities said they were preparing to construct a large dyke designed to divert lava flows around the Svartsengi geothermal power plant, located just over six kilometres from Grindavik. "It should never be taken as a sign that an outbreak is not on the way," she said.Ĭonstruction workers are seen on a road damaged by volcanic activity near Grindavik, Iceland, on Tuesday. ![]() "Less seismic activity typically precedes an eruption, because you have come so close to the surface that you cannot build up a lot of tension to trigger large earthquakes," said Rikke Pedersen, who heads the Nordic Volcanological Centre based in Reykjavik. Nearly 800 earthquakes were recorded in the area between midnight and noon on Tuesday, fewer than the two previous days, it said. The probability of an eruption remained high despite a decrease in seismic activity, the Icelandic Meteorological Institute said in a statement on Tuesday. Seismic activity and underground lava flows intensified on the Reykjanes peninsula near the capital Reykjavik over the weekend, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 4,000 people from the fishing town of Grindavik on Saturday. Icelandic authorities were preparing to build defence walls on Tuesday around a geothermal power plant in the southwestern part of the country that they hope will protect it from lava flows amid concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption. ![]()
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