Lakagicar and Laki craters
Laki or Lakagígar, Laki Craters, is a volcanic fissure in the western part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland. The fissure is actually called Lakagígar, while Laki is the mountain that the fissure cuts in two. Lakagígar is part of a volcanic system centered around the volcano Grímsvötn and including the volcano Þórðarhyrna. It is located between the glaciers Mýrdalsjökull and Vatnajökull in a southwest-northeast trending rift zone. The system erupted violently for eight months between June 1783 and February 1784 from the Laki fissure and the adjacent volcano Grímsvötn. It is estimated to have ejected 42 billion tons or 14 km3 of basaltic lava, as well as clouds of hydrofluoric acid and toxic sulfur dioxide compounds that contaminated the soil, killing more than 50 percent of Iceland's livestock and destroying most of its crops. This led to a famine that killed at least one-fifth of the island's human population.
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