00:00Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has erupted again, the region's twelfth eruption, in four years.
00:09Magma pushed through the Earth's crust, opening a fissure thought to be between 700 and 1,000 metres long,
00:16with lava flows lighting up the dark volcanic landscape.
00:21Tourists were evacuated from the area as a precaution, although no injuries have yet been reported.
00:29Unlike eruptions from a central crater, lava and fissure eruptions like this one appears along long cracks in the ground.
00:37Iceland, often called the land of ice and fire, has recorded a dozen volcanic eruptions since geological systems on the Reykjanes Peninsula reactivated four years ago.
00:47Experts say eruptions in this area could continue for decades or even centuries as part of a new volcanic cycle.
