Videographer Art Bicnick filmed on location from Grindavík the afternoon of December 22 to to capture this footage of the town that was evacuated amid seismic unrest on November 10, and the site of the eruption near Sunhnúkagígar that began at 10:17 p.m. on December 18, and which volcanologists have already declared over.

This latest eruption is both the strongest and shortest lived of those seen on peninsula in recent years. 90 minutes after high-magnitude earthquakes at Sunhnúkagígar, a 4 km fissure opened, producing curtains of lava at a rate of 200 cubic metres per second.

That had diminished to a third of the volume within 24 hours as the fissure consolidated down to five and then just two eruptive vents. It had petered out entirely by December 21st.

While the eruption appears to be over, scientists continue watching the signs that a magma chamber is filling up roughly 5 km beneath Svartsengi — the area on which the Svartsengi Power Plant and the Blue Lagoon sit.

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