Experts indicate that volcanic activity in Iceland “appears to have subsided.”

Volcanic activity in southwest Iceland appears to have subsided, Icelandic civil protection authorities said on Monday, a day after the port town of Grindavik erupted, setting three houses on fire.

“The night passed without incident,” Icelandic civil protection spokesman Hjordis Gudmunsdottir said, adding that the lava flow was less significant.

The movement of magma from the second, smaller fissure appears to have stopped, a spokesman for Icelandic Public Radio and Television said.

The volcano erupted on Sunday morning near the fishing port of Grindavik in the southwest of the country.

According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), two cracks opened, one of which was located on the edge of the first houses.

The lava flow reached the port city, whose access was already in poor condition due to cracked roads and cracked public buildings, setting three empty houses on fire.

Several dozen residents who moved to Grindavik at the end of December were urgently evacuated the day before.

The city, home to about 4,000 people, was first evacuated on November 11 last year as a precaution after hundreds of earthquakes caused by the movement of magma under the earth’s crust.

At that time, it was possible to allow returns to their homes on December 18 and permanently on December 23, but only a few dozen residents decided to return to Grindavik.

Thirty-three volcanic systems are considered active in Iceland, Europe’s most volcanic region.