There is a Brazilian among the residents. Jéssica Costa is 31 years old, seven months pregnant and has lived in Iceland for seven years with her husband and teenage son. In all this time he has never seen anything like this. The Brazilian was preparing brigadeiros for the baby shower of a friend, who is also pregnant, when she received the news that she had to leave her home.
According to Jéssica, violent earthquakes occurred every 30 seconds. The volcano’s magma began to move beneath the city near the populated area. In an interview with UOLJéssica says that in recent years there have only been small volcanic eruptions in remote and safe places.
Tremors often occur on the peninsula because it is an active volcanic region. Houses in Iceland can withstand a scale of up to 7.1, so this wasn’t a problem until the magma moved.
‘Scary’
Jéssica and her husband took clothes, documents and their pet cat with them and set off for the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, about 40 km away. Her eldest son was already there, where he trains football. Jéssica was born in Manaus, Amazonas and works at a spa restaurant in Grindavik, which is considered the city’s tourist attraction due to its hot springs.