The news was confirmed and revealed by the local national meteorological institute.
“At 14:25 we began to see turbulence in fagradalsfjalland around 4:40 p.m. we could see the smoke rising to the northern slopes of Litla-Hrút,” he said. Kristín Elísa GuÐmundsdóttirexpert of the Icelandic Meteorological Office, interviewed by the Icelandic public service broadcaster Rúv.
The request to the population
Rescue services are on the scene and They issued the invitation to citizens not to approach.
For now, the volcanic eruption has not caused air traffic problems.
In 2010, the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano, accompanied by a very high emission of ash, it blocked air traffic for days, disrupting flights around the world and causing inconvenience to more than 8 million passengers.
More than 100 active and inactive volcanoes
The northern european island has more than 100 volcanoes both active and inactive.
Late on Monday, the department advised residents of the Peninsula Reykjanes to close the windows and turn off the ventilation.
The meteorological office He had previously warned of high gas pollution around the eruption, from which lava flows, but said there was no ash.
Hazardous gases are expected to affect the Fagradalsfjall areasouth of the eruption and away from densely populated places, according to a weather forecast map from Vedur.
“It has turned into a small eruption, which is very good news,” he claimed Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, to the Icelandic station RUV early on Tuesday.
Source: Ambito
