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This article talks about the Eldfell eruption in 1973. It's one of the few cases where people were able to divert a lava flow. https://www.usgs.gov/observatori

• m4rtink 3y ago
  IIRC, they also used the remaining solid lava flow for district heating for a while so that it cooled down faster and could be trucked out of the way where necessary.