Hundreds of quakes hit Iceland volcano site
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Reykjavik - Seismic activity continued at Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano Saturday, with hundreds of earthquakes striking the site over the course of several hours, but there were no air traffic bans, the civil defence agency said.
About 450 quakes were recorded from midnight (0000 GMT) to 7 am. The most powerful was a 5.4-magnitude in the caldera of the volcano, situated under the Vatnajokull glacier in south-east Iceland, the Meteorological Office said.
There was also activity at the Holuhraun lava field north of the glacier, where a small lava eruption occurred overnight Friday. That eruption ceased after four hours.
Air traffic was banned over the volcano on Friday after authorities briefly raised the alert to red, the highest level, before authorities downgraded it back to orange.
The orange alert designation is the second-highest, meaning that the volcano "shows heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of an eruption."
AFP
