A volcano erupted on Wednesday on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula in the south-west of the country, the ninth eruption in region since the end of 2023. Police commissioner Margrét Kristín Pálsdóttir told RUV the evacuation of about 100 people had gone smoothly. Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty ImagesBenedikt Ófeigsson, a geophysicist with the IMO, told RUV that the eruption didn’t seem as big as earlier ones and was not near any infrastructure. When the first eruption took place in late 2023, most of Grindavík’s 4,000 residents were evacuated. An eruption in another part of Iceland in 2010 caused worldwide travel chaos when an ash cloud forced the closure of airspace.