Increased activity of the Mýrdalsjökull volcano (which lies beneath the glacier of the same name) on the night of July 26/27, caused a huge outpouring of water and a so-called glacial (glacial) flood near the town of Vik, in southern Iceland.
On July 27, in the morning, water flooded Road No. 1 (Iceland’s main ring road), and around 5 pm it broke, near the bridge over the Skálm River, about 40 km east of Vik.
Road 1 flooded by the Skalm River
source: vedur.is; by Sveinbjörn Darri Matthíasson
Flood spilling over the eastern slopes of Mýrdalsjökull
source: vedur.is, by Public Safety/Björn Oddsson
