Liverpool FC owner's wife Linda Pizzuti escapes from Iceland volcano earthquake

The wife of Liverpool FC owner John W Henry has revealed the terrifying moment she was woken by the volcanic eruption in Iceland.

Linda Pizzuti Henry posted videos and several pictures of the disaster on social media after the eruption and the resulting '160ft fountains of lava' caused her to flee with her son Xander.

Dramatic footage shows molten lava consuming several homes on the northernmost tip of Grindavik, which lies around 25 miles away from Iceland's capital Reykjavík.

The eruption began just before 8am local time yesterday, before a second fissure, which is currently a kilometre (3,280ft) wide and growing, opened up at around midday. Experts have said that more fissures may open up over the coming days.

Mrs Pizzuti, who is married to Liverpool owner John W Henry, was visiting Iceland with her son Xander to see the Northern lights when they were woken up by a series of earthquakes and were told to evacuate.

She recounted the terrifying experience to her 130,000 followers on Instagram. The CEO of Boston Globe wrote: 'I woke up at around 3.45am from the bed shaking in my hotel room.

'I thought it may be a low scale earthquake, but the tremors kept coming at about the same intensity, so I wasn't sure.

'I called down to the hotel desk and there wasn't an answer… I got my son up and we started to get dressed when an emergency alarm then went off, and we were told we had to evacuate. We quickly grabbed our bags and followed instructions.

'Officials were organized and careful, everyone in the area was accounted for and safely evacuated in time.

'We experienced an intense series of around 200 earthquakes - largest measuring 3.5 magnitude (according to officials). We went to the airport to catch a flight out in case it got