Authorities have evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted next to a glacier in southern Iceland, but there were no evident reports of repairs or injuries.
The tear occurred around 11.30pm yesterday, next to the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, the fifth largest in Iceland.
Authorities primarily pronounced the tear was next the glacier, triggering fears that it could lead to flooding from ice melting, but scientists conducting an aerial consult currently located the tear and pronounced it did not start next the ice level.
"The tear is a small one," pronounced Agust Gunnar Gylfason, a risk researcher at the polite insurance department. "An tear in and close to this glacier can be dangerous due to probable flooding if the crevasse forms underneath the glacier. That is because we instituted the mess reply plan."
Scientists can see lava flows in the half-mile prolonged fissure, and are examination for serve activity.
Authorities evacuated a little 450 people in the area, 100 miles south-east of the capital, Reykjavik, as a precaution, pronounced Vidir Reynisson, dialect physical education instructor for the CPD.
A state of puncture has been spoken in communities nearby the glacier, and 3 Red Cross centres were set up for evacuees in the encampment of Hella.
The Icelandic polite aviation administration department has systematic aircraft to stay 120 nautical miles afar from the volcano area.
The last time the volcano erupted was in the 1820s.
