Iceland: Volcano has erupted Bardarbunga – Business Week

The Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland has erupted in the night to Friday. For air traffic alert applies red. So far, no volcanic ash has been launched.

After several earthquake erupted shortly after midnight on Friday, the Icelandic volcano Bardarbunga. Although so far no volcanic ash was ejected, but the Meteorological Institute called the red alert to air traffic from. It came to light eruptions at 2.40 clock on Friday Moren, the activity currently seems to decrease again.

There is a growing fear of an ash cloud that impede international air traffic could. On Wednesday there were two more violent earthquake with a magnitude of about 5.0 on the volcano under the Vatnajokull glacier, said the Icelandic Meteorological Office. There were hundreds of earthquakes have been recorded.

At the volcano rumbles it for days. On weekends, Iceland had already temporarily declared the highest alert level for international air traffic, because an outbreak and an ash cloud had been feared. On Sunday, the authorities took the warning initially from red to orange – the second highest level – back

2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland had ejected a huge cloud of ash.. It has imposed a five-day flight ban, because damage to the engines were feared by the ash. Hundreds of thousands of flights were canceled at the time of the world.