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From: maws_general_list <maws_general_list_ät_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:44:31 -0000
Subject: [MAWS General List] Iceland Volcano Erupts
To: maws_general_list_ät_yahoogroups.com
"Iceland Volcano Erupts, Air Traffic Diverted"
(Source: Reuters, 11/2/04)
COPENHAGEN - A volcano erupted under Iceland's biggest glacier,
spewing thick black ash into the air and disrupting flights over
eastern regions but posing little threat to people or property,
officials said on Tuesday.
The eruption began on Monday evening under the Vatnajokull glacier in
eastern Iceland. Authorities issued a warning and directed all flights
away from the column of smoke, which was 13 km (8 miles) high.
"Flying into a cloud of volcanic ash is extremely dangerous," said
Bergthor Bergthorsson of the Civil Aviation Administration. "It has
been known to stop all four engines of an aircraft."
Bergthorsson said the cloud of smoke was expected to drift 500 miles
over the North Atlantic, and might move closer to the Norwegian coast.
The eruption was not expected to threaten lives or homes as the area
around Vatnajokull is scarcely populated. But the floods of water
from melting glacial ice might damage roads south of the volcano, said
Hjorleifur Sveinbjornsson, geologist at the Meteorological Office.
"The eruption is stable, but we don't know yet how big it is, or how
long it's going to last. It might last for a few days, or stretch into
weeks," he said.
Sveinbjornsson said the eruption was not expected to threaten the dam
site at Karahnjukar, where Iceland is building a power plant for a new
Alcoa aluminum smelter.
"They could see the eruption from there though, and other places in
eastern Iceland," he said. "They said it was quite a show, with
lightning and everything - an incredible sight."
The volcano is a part of Iceland's Grimsvotn volcanic system.
Iceland's last eruption was in 2000 at one of its major volcanoes,
Hekla.
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