Roundup of Global Volcanic Activity
Bárdarbunga (Iceland): The situation remains the same as yesterday. The earthquake swarm continues at high intensity. The quakes are clustered in an area 20 km east of the Bárdarbunga volcano's caldera under the ice cap and at shallow depths of 10-1 km. During the first 7 hours of today, 200 events were registered, the largest being a magnitude 3 quake at 10 km depth. Police authorities and Civil Protection have decided to close and evacuate the area around the volcano due to possible elevated volcanic hazards, one of the most severe being likely jökulhlaups, glacial floods.
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