An earthquake struck the area round Iceland’s Bardarbunga
volcano on Sunday whilst fissures inside the location persevered to spew out
lava but nonetheless not one of the ash that could abate airline traffic.
The earthquake took place at 0708 GMT and reached a
importance of five.four, making it one in all the larger quakes in the place in
vital Iceland due to the fact that significant tremors commenced on Aug. 16,
often generating heaps of quakes per day.
“there has been also every other quake, magnitude four.6 at
0330 (GMT) within the night,” stated Bergthora Thorbjarnardottir, geologist on
the Icelandic Meteorological office.
“Seismic interest under Bardarbunga volcano is still ongoing
but remains constant,” she added.
Lava from the fissures round Bardarbunga has thus far
reached the surface simplest on land that is not blanketed by way of ice, while
an eruption underneath an ice cap may be explosive and result in an ash cloud
that might below positive instances disrupt aviation.
A cloud of abrasive ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano,
in a special region of Iceland, closed tons of Europe’s air space for six days,
stranding tens of thousands of passengers, after an eruption beneath the ice
cap.
The ash warning degree for aviation related to the present
day fissure eruptions remained at orange, the second-maximum stage on a
5-coloration scale, after several short hikes to the top pink in latest weeks.
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