One of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions, the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, has closed temporarily as a swarm of earthquakes put the island nation’s most populated region on alert for a possible volcanic eruption.
Guests are wreathed in steam rising from the water at the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in Iceland.
While scientists say that is the likely outcome of the current activity, the magma storage chamber currently building up again could erupt less than 3km from the Blue Lagoon.
“Magnitude 5 earthquakes, such as the one last night, are known to precede eruptions.”A tourist bathes in the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.
Photo: APThe management of the Blue Lagoon, where tourists bask in pools of seawater naturally heated deep underground, said it decided to close temporarily because of the night’s “disruption of the guests’ experience” and the prolonged stress on employees.

Blue Lagoon Iceland spa guests flee in ‘panic’ as earthquakes raise fears of volcanic eruption