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Iceland volcano eruption prompts aviation red alert
Iceland volcano eruption prompts aviation red alert

A small new fissure eruption in an ice-free area of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano system prompted authorities to raise their warning of the risk of ash to aviation to the highest level Sunday. Iceland's largest volcanic system, which cuts a 118-mile-long and up to 15.5-mile-wide swathe across the North Atlantic island, has been hit by thousands of earthquakes over the last two weeks, and scientists have been on high alert. In 2010, an ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, in a different region of Iceland, closed much of Europe's air space for six days. "The eruption is a very calm lava eruption and can hardly been seen on seismometers," the Icelandic...