Saturday, May 21, 2011

Iceland Volcano Erupts

 Iceland Volcano Erupts Scientists said the most active volcano, Iceland began to erupt, Saturday - - Reykjavik, Iceland a little more than a year na'n another explosion in the North Atlantic island closed to the European air traffic for several days.
The Meteorological Office that the outbreak began in Iceland volcano Grimsvotn, accompanied by a series of small earthquakes. Can be seen as smoke rising from the volcano, which is located under the Vatnajökull glacier in southeast Iceland is uninhabited.
Has been set up no-fly zone to 120 nautical miles (220 kilometers) in all directions from the explosion. Description of the ISAF, the company that developed and all airport facilities and air navigation services in Iceland, as a uniform procedure on the prevalence of the disease.
"Powder height plane, which have been made and plans were made for the aircraft used by the Department of Icelandic air space to fly south for the night," said Hjordis Gudmundsdottir, an ISAF spokesman.
Grimsvotn last erupted in 2004. Scientists expect to create a new explosion, said earlier that the eruption may be small and will not cause chaos in air travel in April 2010 became the volcano Eyjafjallajökull. 

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