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Several thousand onlookers venture down the steep, winding trail around Mount Fagradalsfjall to admire the week-long volcanic eruption near the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, "a once-in-a-lifetime experience," says British tourist Celine Paul.
Grindavik is on the country's southwestern Reykjanes peninsula.
Residents of Grindavik, southwestern Iceland, collect their belongings from their homes during a brief window allowed by authorities as the town faces the eruption of a nearby volcano. Grindavik was evacuated on Saturday after hundreds of earthquakes were caused by magma shifting under the Earth's crust, damaging roads and buildings. Experts say the quakes could be a precursor to a volcanic eruption and the Icelandic state has declared a state of emergency over the risk.
Residents of the Icelandic town of Grindavik have been allowed by the authorities to gather their personal belongings ahead of an expected volcano eruption in the coming hours or days. The town home to some 4,000 people on the southwestern coast was evacuated in the early hours of Saturday after magma shifting under the Earth's crust caused hundreds of earthquakes in what was believed to be a precursor to an eruption.
There have been hundreds of small warning earthquakes suggesting movement in the earth's crust.
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