The night sky lit up near the capital Reykjavik late on Friday.

The eruption came after thousands of small earthquakes in the region in recent weeks.

The area is a seismic hotspot and all air traffic has been halted.

Iceland is home to Europe's most active volcanic region.

So let's go to Iceland's capital Reykjavik and bring in seismologist Dr Thornburg August daughter from Iceland.

Geo.

Sorry.

Thanks for joining us.

Um, what kind of threat level are we looking at here?

Is anybody's life in danger?

No, not at the moment.

What we're looking at is a very, very small eruption.

And this is a fissure eruption.

So we, um the last evening and throughout the night we had some lava fountain ning.

Um and you have some lava flowing you can maybe see in the pictures.

Um, but it's a very small eruption.

Threat levels are very low, and the experts are saying that this is happening in the best possible place.

Excuse me.

Best possible place in the in the peninsula, um, regarding, um infrastructure and people so at the moment.

Since the eruption is very small, nobody is, uh, in danger.

Luckily, and the area of Iceland, where you are, as you know, better better than anyone is listed as one of the most seismological e active areas in the world.

Are you able to learn anything from what's going on now?

Yeah, we're learning by every hour.

Um, so, as you mentioned, there's 800 years since we have the last eruption in this peninsula.

Um, this, uh, eruption type is completely different to what you experience in 2010.

It will not close to European airspace or for a period of time.

Firstly, is very small.

The second is it's a completely different type of corruption.

Um, what we're learning is that we can have a seismic activity in this case outlining, uh, intruding magma at depth.

Uh, and then you can have the magma to use this time to go to the surface.

Uh, it could have stopped them.

Froze.

Uh, the news from yesterday was was maybe is it dying down or will we have an eruption?

Um, so what?

You see what happened last night?

We had the eruption.

Okay, listen.

So It's quite uncertain, in a way.

Okay.

I think the last time many of us paid attention to volcanoes in Iceland was in that 2010 event.

I'm going to try to say the name of the volcano.

I think it was, uh uh uh.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm sure.

Okay.

Um, how is this different?

What's happening now?

How is this different from then?

You were saying It's It's It's a completely different type of event.

Yes, so, in a obviously, you're good.

You had this more like a starter volcano.

Um, you had a glacier on top.

You had a different chemistry in the magma, which meant you had more explosive activity was enhanced by the glacier.

If the hot magma touching the the ice, you will have an explosive eruption.

Um, and that the chemistry of this, uh, magma meant that there was very fine grained.

So you flew very far, far with the with the ash and the wind.

And but in this case, in drunkenness, what we have is a very small fissure eruption.

It's only about 700 m.

It's flowing quite gently.

The lava fountains reached maximum 100 m.

Okay, yesterday evening, and so it's completely different.

You don't have a 10 kilometer eruption column, so, yeah, it's a totally different scenario, but it's very beautiful.

It is beautiful.

Less spectacular, perhaps, but, uh, certainly still interesting to observe.

Scientifically, I'm sure.

Dr.

Thornburg Algotsdotter from Reykjavik.

Thanks so much for that.

Don't worry.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Mm.

So the situation in green Topic is quite uncomfortable right now.

Everyone is sleep deprived because the earth is constantly moving all day, all night.

Some earthquakes are bigger than others.

Some are 3.1 summer, 4.2 Today we had a big 15.4.

Things fell down on the shelves in the house, even though I had laid many things down.

Mm hmm.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Right now, it's about one kilometer depth.

And all of this pressure from the magma is causing a lot of earthquakes.

I think the guys at the Meteorological Office has recorded 40,000 events in almost three weeks, so it's a pretty strong activity.

And we've never seen anything like this on readiness before.

Nothing written and recorded history.

So it's quite unusual activity.

Mm.