Approximately 410-feet-tall (125-meter-tall) fire fountains erupt as lava pours from linear vents called fissures at the rate of about nine concrete trucks (about 100 cubic meters) per second, just east of the Sundhnúka craters on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. Credit: Icelandic Meteorological Office

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Approximately 410-feet-tall (125-meter-tall) fire fountains erupt as lava pours from linear vents called fissures at the rate of about nine concrete trucks (about 100 cubic meters) per second, just east of the Sundhnúka craters on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. Credit: Icelandic Meteorological Office

Approximately 410-feet-tall (125-meter-tall) fire fountains erupt as lava pours from linear vents called fissures at the rate of about nine concrete trucks (about 100 cubic meters) per second, just east of the Sundhnúka craters on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. Credit: Icelandic Meteorological Office

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