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A volcano in Southwest Iceland that the world has been watching for weeks now has erupted you are looking at some incredible images of its spewing lava and Ash into the air the eruption follows a number of intense earthquakes which prompted authorities to move several thousand people living nearby to

Safety Dominic valitus is following the story from London so Dom what is the latest on this eruption not waste any more time and let’s get back to those stunning pictures coming out of Iceland this morning this is what this eruption looks like close up or as close as is humanly

Possible but the effects can be seen as far away as the capital ruic which is the best part of 50 kilometers away from where this is all taking place on the rikin peninsula the eruption started at 10:17 p.m. at local time last night a short distance to the northeast of the

Small fishing Town grinder the authorities were prepared weeks of intense earthquake activity suggested an eruption was on the cards indeed at one point last month Travis experts recorded more than a thousand earthquakes in just 24 hours after which they took the decision to evacuate grind’s entire population as a precaution that’s about

4,000 people as You’ imagine experts are watching events unfold very closely the Icelandic meteorological office says the the power of this eruption it continues to decrease at the moment but earlier we were told the lava was flowing at a rate of up to to 200 cubic m/ second that’s

Many many times more than we’ve seen in previous eruptions in in the area in recent years it is still moving to the Southwest towards that that town gind so we will be keeping an eye on that Travis and looking to see if there are any further implications for that small

Fishing Town Travis all right and and let’s zoom out here uh Dom what are the wider implications of this eruption well a bit of context for you first Travis Iceland as you know is no stranger to to volcanic eruptions the country has more than 30 active volcano systems that’s the highest number in

Europe and the rikin peninsula where this is all happening is a is a bit of a volcanic and seismic Hotpot in its own right A lot of people though uh were wondering if the the one that erupted last night would cause the same level of disruption as the aat volcanic eruption

Back in 2010 you may remember how the ash cloud that that produced led to the largest closure of European airspace since the second world war leaving passengers stranded all over the place and costing the airline industry billions of dollars the good news is that experts think this one won’t have

The same kind of impact here volcanologist Dave McVey what came out in 2010 was a type of magma that fragment very easily into F Ash and the combination of weather wind and um dry conditions me this ash was in the sky for a very long time and also Western Europe was very unprepared

For this despite the fact scientists knew this was very likely um they weren’t being listened to so it was almost inevitable that would happen so as impressive as this latest eruption looks Travis it’s unlikely to have any wider implications like those that we saw back in 2010 I can tell you

Actually Travis that ruic International Airport is still open this morning and although there are some delays uh flights are taking off and Landing as usual Travis okay that is a bit of good news Dominic valitus for us in London