 A volcano erupted late on December 18 in southwest Iceland, spewing lava and smoke across a wide area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country's meteorological office said, threatening a nearby town.Rakiviks' nearby Kflavik International Airport remained open, albeit with numerous delays listed for both arrivals and departures. Images and live streams of the eruption shown by Reuters and others showed molten rock spewing spectacularly from fishers in the ground, they're bright. Yellow and orange colors set in sharp contrast against the dark night sky of the crack in the Earth's surface was around 3.5 kilometers long and had grown rapidly. The Met Office added, some 100 to 200 cubic meters of lava emerged per second, several times more than in previous eruptions in the area, the Met Office said.