The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) reported Thursday that lava flows are expanding east and southeast from the eruptive vent near Fagradalsfjall. The eruption, ongoing since November 20, had been traveling westward earlier this week, but the lava has slowed and cooled on the surface.

A lava stream from a volcanic eruption in West Iceland is brighter than the lights of the city's nearby capital, new infrared images show.

Images snapped from space reveal lava streaming from a fissure in the ground in the area's seventh volcanic eruption within a year.