 A volcano system in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday, for the third time since December, with fountains of bright orange lava visible from Iceland's capital, Reykjavík about 30 miles away. The eruption started at about 6 AM local time northeast of the Blue Lagoon, according to Iceland's Met Office, lava is bursting out from a 3 km crack in flowing west, according to the authorities. The flows are directed away from Grindivík, a town that's had to be abandoned, potentially permanently due to damage from the lava outbursts and seismic activity, the nearby geothermal spa Blue Lagoon had closed. The previous eruption in the area started on January 14 and lasted roughly two days, with lava flows reaching the outskirts of the Grindivík fishing town, whose nearly 4,000 inhabitants had been evacuated, setting some houses alight. Last eruption took place some way from Grindivík and was unlikely to pose a direct threat to the town, Icelandic geophysicist Ari Trosti-Gudmansson told Reuters, but it could pose some threat to the road to Grindivík and it could pose some threat to the power plant and even to the Blue Lagoon, he said, adding that the risk depended on how much lava ultimately flowed from the ground.