--- title: A Volcano in Iceland Could Erupt Any Day. Here’s What to Know | TIME description: Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland briefly returned to their homes to collect belongings on Tuesday, following an evacuation order brought about by increasing concern of a potential volcanic eruption. Police decided to evacuate Grindavik on Saturday after recent seismic activity in the area moved south toward the town and monitoring indicated that a corridor of magma, or semi-molten rock, now extends under the community, Iceland’s Meteorological Office said. canonical: https://time.com/video/dpzJkP4S/ og:title: A Volcano in Iceland Could Erupt Any Day. Here’s What to Know og:description: Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland briefly returned to their homes to collect belongings on Tuesday, following an evacuation order brought about by increasing concern of a potential volcanic eruption. Police decided to evacuate Grindavik on Saturday after recent seismic activity in the area moved south toward the town and monitoring indicated that a corridor of magma, or semi-molten rock, now extends under the community, Iceland’s Meteorological Office said. og:url: https://time.com/video/dpzJkP4S/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dpzJkP4S/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Volcano in Iceland Could Erupt Any Day. Here’s What to Know twitter:description: Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland briefly returned to their homes to collect belongings on Tuesday, following an evacuation order brought about by increasing concern of a potential volcanic eruption. Police decided to evacuate Grindavik on Saturday after recent seismic activity in the area moved south toward the town and monitoring indicated that a corridor of magma, or semi-molten rock, now extends under the community, Iceland’s Meteorological Office said. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dpzJkP4S/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # A Volcano in Iceland Could Erupt Any Day. Here’s What to Know ## Video: A Volcano in Iceland Could Erupt Any Day. Here’s What to Know [Watch (HLS stream): A Volcano in Iceland Could Erupt Any Day. Here’s What to Know](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dpzJkP4S.m3u8) (1:38)  _Published 2023-11-15. Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland briefly returned to their homes to collect belongings on Tuesday, following an evacuation order brought about by increasing concern of a potential volcanic eruption. Police decided to evacuate Grindavik on Saturday after recent seismic activity in the area moved south toward the town and monitoring indicated that a corridor of magma, or semi-molten rock, now extends under the community, Iceland’s Meteorological Office said._ --- Dec 1, 2023 3:21 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [](/video/m6Ebzoml/) 00:38 ### Northern Lights Shine Over Erupting Volcano in Iceland [](/video/9t4T3N8Y/) 01:07 ### Dramatic Footage of Icelandic Volcano Erupting [](/video/TNQiLLRP/) 00:45 ### WATCH: Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano Erupting --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Volcano in Iceland Could Erupt Any Day. Here’s What to Know","description":"Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland briefly returned to their homes to collect belongings on Tuesday, following an evacuation order brought about by increasing concern of a potential volcanic eruption.\n\nPolice decided to evacuate Grindavik on Saturday after recent seismic activity in the area moved south toward the town and monitoring indicated that a corridor of magma, or semi-molten rock, now extends under the community, Iceland’s Meteorological Office said.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dpzJkP4S/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-11-15T19:09:26.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dpzJkP4S.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/dpzJkP4S/","duration":"PT1M38S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/dpzJkP4S/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```